Thank you John B., Ari, 2003, Adoptable D., D.Goon, for your answers.
What I want to Servicemark is: "The ***** Group". I plan to eventually incorporate under this name and use it for any internet service I create.
The hard question to answer from the USTPO form is to give it a: "Listing of Goods and/or Services" (i.e.: the category of goods you will offer). I had planned to use "Internet Services" as my category but then I read the USTPO's instructions: "If you are not specific enough (e.g., listing "internet services"), you will not receive a filing date."
Anyone have any ideas of category I can choose to keep it general enough to use it for all my eventual internet services (general retail, domain reselling, search pages, Family Name Heraldry, etc.)?
The closest I could find was: "009 A 4/12/99 Computer e-commerce software to allow users to perform electronic business transactions via a global computer network" (
http://eteas.uspto.gov/V2.0/bas202/). The problem with this category is that none of my services create software, they use software.
Also, if I have so far only used "The ***** Group" for the internet site (listing my services, not selling anything from the site), business cards, letter head, credit card account, would your guess be that I would file for: "Intent to Use (Section 1(b))" or " Use in Commerce (Section 1(a))" ?
Thank You,
ObtainADomain