United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 30 December 2003

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

                             November 24-28, 2003



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

11-25           EX              76272754                Grange Insurance
                                                        Association


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

2(e)            Refusal                                 "THE DAWNING OF A
                Affirmed                                NEW GRANGE GRANGE
                as to all                               INSURANCE GROUP"
                4 cited                                 [property and
                registrations                           casualty insurance
                                                        underwriting
                                                        services]


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

4 cited registrations:                          No
"G GRANGE INSURANCE
YOUR PARTNER IN PROTECTION"
(and design)
[insurance underwriting
services, namely, property,
casualty, life, accident,
and health underwriting
services];
"G GRANGE LIFE INSURANCE
YOUR PARTNER IN PROTECTION"
(and design)
[life insurance underwriting
services];
"G GRANGE INSURANCE"
(and design)
[insurance underwriting
services in the field of
property, casualty, life,
accident and health];
"G GRANGE LIFE INSURANCE"
(and design)
[life insurance underwriting
services]


(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