Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

                                July 6-10, 1998


                                
Date            Type of         Proceeding                      
Issued          Case (1)        or App'n No.            Party/Parties

7-8             EX              75/017,413              Lancer Ortho-
                                                        dontics, Inc. 

7-8             OPP             101,856                 General Electric  
                                                        Co. v. Asha
                                                        Records, Inc. 

7-8             EX              74/693,416              Volk Art, Inc.
   
7-8             EX              74/635,846              Raceway Lube Inc.   

7-8             EX              74/241,020              Fonovisa, Inc.   

                                Opposer's/              Applicant's/
                                Petitioner's            Respondent's
                TTAB            Mark and                Mark and
Issue           Decision        Goods/Services          Goods/Services

2(d)            Refusal                                 IN ADVANCE and
                reversed                                design
                                                        [dental abrasives
                                                        and polishes]

2(d)            Opposition      design of dog with      ASHA RECORDS and
                sustained       phonograph player       fanciful rabbit 
                                [sound recordings       design with phono-
                                and various elec-       graph player
                                tronic products]        [pre-recorded 
                                                        tapes, phonograph 
                                                        records and com-
                                                        pact discs 
                                                        featuring music] 

2(a) (decep-    Refusals                                BLANC DE CHINE
tive) and       affirmed                                [porcelain, name- 
2(e)(1)                                                 ly, lamp bases, 
[deceptively                                            pots and fig-
misdescrip-                                             urines]
tive]

2(d)            Refusal                                 RACEWAY LUBE
                affirmed                                [vehicle lubrica-
                                                        tion and oil 
                                                        change services]  

2(d)            Refusal                                 MELODY and design
                reversed                                [cassette tapes, 
                                                        compact discs and 
                                                        phonograph records
                                                        bearing musical
                                                        sound recordings 
                                                        in the Spanish 
                                                        language]   

Mark and                                        Citable as
Goods Cited by                                  Precedent
Examining Atty.                                 of TTAB

ADVANCE                                         No
[dental restorative
materials]   

                                                No

                                                No

RACEWAY                                         No
[motor oil]

The word "MELODY"                               No
in Russian Cyrillic
[phonograph records,
audio cassettes and
compact discs, all for
musical recordings]

(1)EX=EX PARTE APPEAL; OPP=OPPOSITION; CANC=CANCELLATION; CU=CONCURRENT 
USE; (SJ)=SUMMARY JUDGMENT; (R)=REQ. FOR RECONSIDERATION