United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 10 September 2002

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

7-31            EX              76/044,706              Charter
                                                        Communications
                                                        Holding Co., LLC

7-31            EX              75/643,089              Sutkowski &
                                                        Washkuhn Ltd.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "CHARTER MEDIA"
                Reversed                                [providing and
                                                        placing television
                                                        advertising for
                                                        others, and
                                                        producing info-
                                                        mercials, on
                                                        cable television
                                                        stations]

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "BUSINESS
[whether        Affirmed                                LAW FIRM"
applicant's                                             (in stylized
mark is                                                 lettering)
inherently                                              [legal services]
distinctive
based on the
stylized
display of
the words
that
compose its
mark]


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

"THE CHARTER GROUP"                             No
(and design)
[preparing and
placing advertising
for others; business
management; business
information;
publication of
pamphlets, booklets,
newsletters, etc.]

                                                No


(1)EX=EX PARTE APPEAL; OPP=OPPOSITION; CANC=CANCELLATION; CU=CONCURRENT
USE; (SJ)=SUMMARY JUDGMENT; (R)=REQ. FOR RECONSIDERATION; (MD)=MOTION
TO DISMISS; (MR)=MOTION TO REOPEN