Who owns the GBC trademark?

The GBC trademark is owned by General Binding LLC.

What class is the GBC trademark registered in?

The GBC trademark is registered in Class 009 (Electronics, software & scientific instruments).

What is the serial number for GBC?

The USPTO serial number for GBC is 87081900.

What is the registration number for GBC?

GBC is registered under USPTO registration number 5197295.

GBC - Owned by General Binding LLC - (Class 009)

What to file next

Section 9 renewal, filed with a Section 8 declaration

When: Due between the ninth and tenth anniversary of registration, then before each tenth anniversary after that.
Extensions and grace: A six-month grace period follows, with an added per-class fee.
If it is missed: A missed renewal cancels the registration, and there is no revival route for it.

How Section 9 renewal works

General information about USPTO practice, not legal advice. The register is the authority, and a filing that has not yet posted can change what is owed.

Full Goods & Services

Class 009Electronics, software & scientific instruments

US codes: 021, 023, 026, 036, 038

First use anywhere: Nov 01, 2016

First use in commerce: Nov 01, 2016

Scientific, research, navigation, surveying, photographic, cinematographic, audiovisual, optical, weighing, measuring, signalling, detecting, testing, inspecting, life-saving and teaching apparatus and instruments; apparatus and instruments for conducting, switching, transforming, accumulating, regulating or controlling the distribution or use of electricity; apparatus and instruments for recording, transmitting, reproducing or processing sound, images or data; recorded and downloadable multimedia files, computer software, blank digital or analogue recording and storage media; mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus; cash registers, calculating devices; computers and computer peripheral devices; diving suits, divers' masks, ear plugs for divers, nose clips for divers, gloves for divers, breathing apparatus for underwater swimming; fire-extinguishing apparatus.

This description is as filed with the USPTO and defines the scope of trademark protection.

Filing Basis & Declarations

Standard Characters ClaimedUse Application CurrentlySection 8 AcceptedSection 15 AcknowledgedTrademark

Status History

23 events

COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (10-YR)/SEC. 9 E-MAILED

May 02, 2026

Code REM2

NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF SEC. 8 & 15 - E-MAILED

Aug 13, 2023

Code NA85

CASE ASSIGNED TO POST REGISTRATION PARALEGAL

Aug 12, 2023

Code APRE

REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (6-YR) ACCEPTED & SEC. 15 ACK.

Aug 12, 2023

Code C15A

TEAS SECTION 8 & 15 RECEIVED

Feb 14, 2023

Code E815

COURTESY REMINDER - SEC. 8 (6-YR) E-MAILED

May 02, 2022

Code REM1

REGISTERED-PRINCIPAL REGISTER

May 02, 2017

Code R.PR

NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE OF STATEMENT OF USE E-MAILED

Mar 31, 2017

Code SUNA

ALLOWED PRINCIPAL REGISTER - SOU ACCEPTED

Mar 30, 2017

Code CNPR

STATEMENT OF USE PROCESSING COMPLETE

Mar 27, 2017

Code SUPC

CASE ASSIGNED TO INTENT TO USE PARALEGAL

Mar 24, 2017

Code AITU

TEAS STATEMENT OF USE RECEIVED

Mar 14, 2017

Code EISU

USE AMENDMENT FILED

Mar 14, 2017

Code IUAF

TEAS REVOKE/APP/CHANGE ADDR OF ATTY/DOM REP RECEIVED

Mar 13, 2017

Code REAP

ATTORNEY/DOM.REP.REVOKED AND/OR APPOINTED

Mar 13, 2017

Code ARAA

NOA E-MAILED - SOU REQUIRED FROM APPLICANT

Jan 03, 2017

Code NOAM

PUBLISHED FOR OPPOSITION

Nov 08, 2016

Code PUBO

OFFICIAL GAZETTE PUBLICATION CONFIRMATION E-MAILED

Nov 08, 2016

Code NPUB

NOTIFICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLICATION E-MAILED

Oct 19, 2016

Code NONP

ASSIGNED TO EXAMINER

Sep 29, 2016

Code DOCK

APPROVED FOR PUB - PRINCIPAL REGISTER

Sep 29, 2016

Code CNSA

NEW APPLICATION OFFICE SUPPLIED DATA ENTERED

Jun 29, 2016

Code NWOS

NEW APPLICATION ENTERED

Jun 27, 2016

Code NWAP

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