United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 18 March 2003

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

                             February 10-14, 2003



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

2-11            EX              75/602,760              National Health
                                                        Information
                                                        Network, Inc.

2-11            CANC            29,387                  Sequent Computer
                OPP             116,011                 Systems, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "CARE RX"
                Affirmed                                [computer software
                                                        for use in disease
                                                        management and
                                                        prescription
                                                        management]

2(d);           Petition        in the cancella-        registered mark:
counterclaim    to Cancel       tion, petitioner        "NUMA-Q"
to cancel       Denied;         relies on its           [computer
petitioner's    counter-        registration for:       hardware, namely,
pleaded         claim for       "NUMA"                  multiple intercon-
registration    cancellation    [installation,          nected proces-
on grounds of   denied;         maintenance and         sors];
genericness     Opposition      repair of computer      mark in opposed
                Sustained       hardware; computer      application:
                                programming for         "NUMACENTER"
                                others in the           [computer
                                field of medical        hardware, namely,
                                imaging];               multiple intercon-
                                in the opposition,      nected processors
                                petitioner relies       and computer soft-
                                on the above            ware for use
                                registered mark         therewith to
                                and on a common         facilitate the
                                law mark for:           interconnection
                                "NUMASTATION"           and interoperation
                                [computer hardware      of such hardware,
                                and software]           and instruction
                                                        manuals distribu-
                                                        ted therewith]


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

"RXCARE"                                        No
[electrical and
scientific apparatus,
namely, pharmacy
management software
applications]

                                                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