United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 05 November 2002

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

9-26            EX              75/792,421              Human Genome
                                                        Sciences, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "FAS TR"
                Reversed                                [genetically
                as to                                   engineered
                both cited                              reagents for
                registrations                           scientific and
                                                        research use,
                                                        namely, nucleic
                                                        acids and proteins
                                                        for use in
                                                        diagnosis and
                                                        development of
                                                        pharmaceutical
                                                        preparations for
                                                        the treatment of
                                                        diseases;
                                                        pharmaceutical
                                                        preparations con-
                                                        taining proteins
                                                        and nucleic acids
                                                        for the treatment
                                                        of diseases]


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

2 cited registrations,                          No
owned by the same entity:
"FASTRNA"
[diagnostic and process
reagent kits and components
for rapid isolation and
purification of nucleic
acid for scientific research
use];
"FASTRNA"
[medical diagnostic and
process reagent kits and
components for rapid isolation
and purification of nucleic
acid for medical laboratory use]



(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