USPTO ISSUES TRADEMARK: MARKIT

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 1 -- The trademark MARKIT (Reg. No. 3966615) was issued on May 24 by the USPTO.

Owner: Markit Group Limited CORPORATION UNITED KINGDOM 2 More London Riverside, Level 5 London UNITED KINGDOM SE12AP.

The trademark application serial number 77361901 was filed on Dec. 31, 2007 and was registered on May 24.

The description of the mark registered is "The color(s) dark blue and light blue is/are claimed as a feature of the mark. The color dark blue appears in the letters "MARK", and the color light blue appears in the letters "IT"."

Goods and Services: Computer software for use in processing financial and banking information and data; electronic publications, namely, newsletters, information sheets, user guides, magazines, fact sheets, news bulletins, that are downloadable, available via the Internet, or provided via hard copy, e-mail, or electronic feed, in the field of financial news and information; computer software for database management; computer software for use in processing financial and banking information and data, for use in the field of financial services and financial and business information, for data processing, and for database management, supplied on-line from databases, from facilities provided on a global computer network or the Internet; publications in electronic form, namely, newsletters, information sheets, user guides, magazines, fact sheets, news bulletins, supplied on-line from databases, from facilities provided on a global computer network or the Internet; interactive computer software for searching electronic information from a global computer network or the Internet. FIRST USE: 20041206. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20041213

Collecting, organizing, formatting, validating, and providing business and commercial information; business investigations; economic forecasting; business research; providing statistical information for business or commercial purposes; providing business data analysis for third parties; providing database management and services for business; providing business data collection, compilation, handling and management services; providing business data processing and verification services; providing business data retrieval services; and dissemination of business and commercial information. FIRST USE: 20041206. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20041213

Processing and providing financial information; providing electronic trade processing services; providing information and data relating to securities and equities pricing; computer consulting relating to the delivery and dissemination of financial information and data; providing information and data relating to credit pricing, credit market pricing, financial instrument price discrepancy, price discrepancy, individual and sector credit curve construction, credit curves, and financial instrument prices; providing information and data for use in relation to risk management and trading; collection, collation, pooling, processing and distribution of financial information and data; news reporting services in the field of financial news; providing information and analysis regarding financial markets, fiscal assessments and stock exchange quotations; facilitating, processing and completing transactions for and trades of securities; providing financial information via the Internet in the field of syndicated loans; providing an on-line computer database in the field of syndicated loans and trading of syndicated loans; all the aforesaid services provided from a global computer network on the Internet; providing automatic alerts, updates, and financial information and data online through the Internet or global computer network. FIRST USE: 20041206. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20041213

Transmission of information by electronic means; providing user access to a global computer network; provision of access to electronic messaging systems; communication facilities for the interchange of data by electronic means; providing electronic data display services, data exchange services, and file transfer services; electronic transmission of data, images and messages; providing access to computer data files and other computerized sources of information via the Internet. FIRST USE: 20041206. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20041213

Installation and maintenance of computer software; application service provider (ASP) featuring software for use in processing financial and banking information and data. FIRST USE: 20041206. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20041213

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