An intent-to-use application lapsed because proof of use was never filed
Official wording: Abandoned - No Statement of Use Filed.
You received a Notice of Allowance, the window for proving use in commerce ran out, and no Statement of Use or extension arrived. The mark was approved on the merits - it died on paperwork, which is the frustrating part and also the recoverable part.
This is not a refusal
Nobody decided your mark was unregistrable. It cleared examination and cleared publication. What ran out was time: an intent-to-use application has to be backed by actual commercial use before it can register, and the USPTO stops waiting after a fixed period.
You had up to thirty-six months, in six-month pieces
A Statement of Use is due within six months of the Notice of Allowance. Extensions are granted in six-month increments, and the total period cannot run beyond thirty-six months from the issue date of the notice. Each extension is a separate filing with its own fee, and each one has to be filed before the previous period expires - a lapsed extension cannot be back-filled.
Revival has a two-month window
If the delay was unintentional, a petition to revive under 37 CFR 2.66 must be filed within two months of the issue date of the notice of abandonment. It needs the petition fee, a signed statement from somebody with firsthand knowledge that the delay was unintentional, and the filing that was missed. Read the notice in TSDR for the date it issued; that date, not the day you found out, starts the window.
The honest question before you revive
A petition only buys you the right to file the Statement of Use. If you are still not using the mark in commerce on the goods and services you claimed, reviving solves nothing and the application will lapse again. Filing a Statement of Use for goods you are not actually selling is a far worse problem than a lapsed application, because it goes to the validity of any registration you do get.
Refiling keeps the option open
If the window has closed, or use is still a way off, a fresh intent-to-use application restarts the clock. You lose the original filing date and whatever priority it held against anyone who filed in the meantime, which is the real cost. Nothing stops you refiling the same mark.
Confirm this against your own record
Status code descriptions are administered inside USPTO systems and published wording varies slightly between sources. Your file is the authority. Enter your serial number in TSDR to see your current status, every document filed, and any live deadline.
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What comes before and after
Status 630
Filed, and waiting in the queue
Status 638
An examining attorney now has your file
Status 640
An office action has been counted, but not sent yet
Status 641
Your non-final office action has been mailed
Status 602
Your application was abandoned for failure to respond
Status 680
The examiner cleared your mark
Status 700
Your mark is registered