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I assume that you have looked at the online list of Acceptable Goods and Services? Could the Examiner be misconstruing the goods, and therefore mis-classifying them??</div>
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Maybe call the Examiner's Managing Attorney or Senior Attorney before responding and request his/her input on how to respond.</div>
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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">We filed a multi-class application. We just received a non-final office action where the Examiner deferred a review of the merits of the application. The Examiner says
we filed in multiple classes but also says the goods and services fall in at least two more classes than we identified and paid for. To be clear, we properly paid for all the classes we listed.</span>
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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">The Examiner gives us two options. Either we can pay more fees for additional classes ( and select how many) or we can delete classes not covered by the fees already submitted.</span>
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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">This application is based on a foreign registration, so for 44(e) purposes, we replicated the classes.</span>
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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">I don't understand the requirement to pay for more classes when the USPTO has not demonstrated how a single good or service is properly in an additional class. I would like to respond: the PTO has not established
any facts or reasoning requiring additional fees for additional classes, and thus, applicant requests withdrawal of the office action.</span>
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<span dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Does anyone have comments on how to deal with these unsubstantiated requirements?</span>
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