SUMMARY OF FINAL DECISIONS ISSUED BY THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
August 25-29, 1997
| Date Issued | Type of Case(1) | Proceeding or Appn. No. | Party or Parties | TTAB Panel(2) | Issue | TTAB Decision | Opposer's or Petitioner's Mark and Goods or Services | Applicant's or Respondent's Mark and Goods or Services | Mark and Goods Cited by Examining Attorney | Examining Attorney | Citable as Precedent of TTAB |
| 8-26 | EX | 74/366,357 | Gardenlife, Inc. | Simms Cissel Hohein* |
2(d) | Refusal Affirmed | "GARDENLIFE" [living plants and trees, flower and vegetable seeds for agricultural and horticultural purposes sold exclusively through applicants own proprietary mail order business; retail and wholesale distributorship services featuring gardening supplies, plants, trees, and seeds; mail order catalog services featuring gardening supplies, plants, trees and seeds] | "GARDENLIFE" (and design) [plastic hose fittings and connectors; water sprinklers and sprayers for lawn and garden use]; "GARDENLIFE" [water sprinkling units for use in gardening, floriculture and horticulture; nonmetallic reel for flexible hoses, connectors and fittings of plastic material for flexible hoses]; GARDENLIFE (in stylized lettering) [fertilizers] | Krisp | No | |
| 8-26 | EX | 74/591,359 | U B Foundation Activities, Inc. | Sams Simms* Hanak |
2(e)(1) | Refusal Affirmed | "FIM" [business and data management, namely, the collection, coordination, storage, retrieval, analysis and reporting of information and data related to the measurement of medical rehabilitation outcomes] | Doninger | No |
(1) EX=Ex Parte Appeal; OPP=Opposition; CANC=Cancellation; CU=Concurrent Use; (SJ)=Summary Judgment; (MD)=Motion to
Dismiss; (MR)=Motion to Reopen; (R)=Request for Reconsideration
(2) *=Opinion Writer; (D)=Dissenting Panel Member
SUMMARY OF FINAL DECISIONS ISSUED BY THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
August 25-29, 1997 (continued)
| Date Issued | Type of Case(1) | Proceeding or Appn. No. | Party or Parties | TTAB Panel(2) | Issue | TTAB Decision | Opposer's or Petitioner's Mark and Goods or Services | Applicant's or Respondent's Mark and Goods or Services | Mark and Goods Cited by Examining Attorney | Examining Attorney | Citable as Precedent of TTAB |
| 8-26 | EX | 74/536,126 | MacroLink, Inc. | Cissel* Hanak Walters |
whether, under Sec. 6, applicant may disclaim the terms "SCSI" and "DIS-CONNECT" separately or must disclaim them as a unitary term | Refusal Affirmed | "MACROLINK SCSI DISCONNECT" (and design) [computer SCSI Bus in-line electronic circuits for electrically isolating SCSI bus electrical signals] | Cataldo | No | ||
| 8-29 | OPP | 93,388 | Latrobe Brewing Co. v. Olde Heurich Brewing Co. | Seeherman Hohein* Walters |
2(d) | Opposition Sustained | "ROLLING ROCK," "ROLLING ROCK LIGHT," "ROCK LIGHT," "BOX OF ROCKS," "ROLLING ROCK BOCK," "ROCK BOCK" and others [beer] | "SPLIT ROCK" [beer] | No |
(1) EX=Ex Parte Appeal; OPP=Opposition; CANC=Cancellation; CU=Concurrent Use; (SJ)=Summary Judgment; (MD)=Motion to
Dismiss; (MR)=Motion to Reopen; (R)=Request for Reconsideration
(2) *=Opinion Writer; (D)=Dissenting Panel Member

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