SEGA Holdings,Co,Ltd Files Section 8 SOU on "RINGEDGE" & "RINGWIDE". Hints at a RE3 and RW2.

As of December 15,2015, SEGA Holdings,Co,Ltd formerly Kabushiki Kaisha SEGA filed a Section 8 Statement of Use Application and signed it regarding its Ring Series Arcade Trademarks of "RingEdge" and "RingWide".

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn77660351&docId=SPE20151222155835#docIndex=0&page=1

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn77660351&docId=SPE20151222155835#docIndex=0&page=2

To the Commissioner for Trademarks:

REGISTRATION NUMBER: 3743907
REGISTRATION DATE: 02/02/2010

MARK: RINGEDGE

The owner, SEGA GAMES CO., LTD., a corporation of Japan, having an address of 
      1-2-12, HANEDA, OTA-KU
      TOKYO, 
      Japan 
is filing a Combined Declaration of Use and Incontestability under Sections 8 & 15. 

For International Class 009, the mark is in use in commerce on or in connection with all of the goods/all of the services, or to indicate membership in the collective membership organization, listed in the existing registration for this specific class: arcade game boards, namely, prerecorded magnetic data carriers featuring arcade game programs; video game software; computer game programs; and the mark has been continuously used in commerce for five (5) consecutive years after the date of registration, or the date of publication under Section 12(c), and is still in use in commerce on or in connection with all goods/all services, or to indicate membership in the collective membership organization, listed in the existing registration for this class. Also, no final decision adverse to the owner's claim of ownership of such mark for those goods/services, or to indicate membership in the collective membership organization, exists, or to the owner's right to register the same or to keep the same on the register; and, no proceeding involving said rights pending and not disposed of in either the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or the courts exists. 

The owner is submitting one(or more) specimen(s) for this class showing the mark as used in commerce on or in connection with any item in this class, consisting of a(n) Photo showing use of mark with goods (on screenshot of software). 
Specimen File1 

For International Class 028, the mark is in use in commerce on or in connection with all of the goods/all of the services, or to indicate membership in the collective membership organization, listed in the existing registration for this specific class: stand alone video game machines; arcade amusement game machines with built-in screens; and the mark has been continuously used in commerce for five (5) consecutive years after the date of registration, or the date of publication under Section 12(c), and is still in use in commerce on or in connection with all goods/all services, or to indicate membership in the collective membership organization, listed in the existing registration for this class. Also, no final decision adverse to the owner's claim of ownership of such mark for those goods/services, or to indicate membership in the collective membership organization, exists, or to the owner's right to register the same or to keep the same on the register; and, no proceeding involving said rights pending and not disposed of in either the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or the courts exists. 

The owner is submitting one(or more) specimen(s) for this class showing the mark as used in commerce on or in connection with any item in this class, consisting of a(n) Photo showing use of mark on goods. 





So what's a "Declaration of Use?". A DOU is under Section 12, is a Statement of Use and Ownership of a Trademark that has been in Registration for 5 years. Section 15 means the mark was originally registered and filed under the 44(e) category of "Intent To Use" which means within 5 years after registration, The applicant must show proof of ownership that they are using the Mark in commerce.


Statement of Use is simply declaring that the Mark is being used in connection with the Goods and Services.



So why is SEGA Games,Co,Ltd being named as the Registrant? You ask, Simple: Sega Games is the name of the former DBA moniker of Sega Corporation,Inc. SEGA Holdings,Co,Ltd was formerly Kabushiki Kaisha Sega, therefore they own registrations of Sega and can claim ownership of US Trademarks filed and registered by SEGA Corporation,Inc. SEGA Interactive,Co,Ltd has not yet been established, but once they do all hardware ownership will fall under their name.




SEGA showing use of its RingEdge 2 and RingWide boards an addition to declaring ownership and use of those names indicates that THERE will be upgrades in the form of RINGEDGE 3 and RINGWIDE 2. Remember, The TMs were filed in early 2009 about 7 years ago and the last upgrade was in 2012.


So the question being, will we see SEGA rollout RINGEDGE 3 or even RINGWIDE 2 this year? I'd say that's not just highly likely, its inevitable.