United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 27 January 2004

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

                             December 22-26, 2003



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

12-23           EX              75874861                Burns Philip
                                                        Food Inc.

12-23           EX              75260248                Dyna-motors,
                                                        Inc.


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

2(e)(1);        Refusal                                 "RAPIDRISE"
whether         Affirmed                                (in stylized
applicant's                                             lettering)
mark has                                                [yeast]
acquired
distinctive-
ness under
Section 2(f)

2(a)            Refusal                                 "DYNAMOTORS"
[deceptive];    Affirmed                                [electric motors
2(e)(1)         [on                                     for machines and
[deceptively    2(e)(1)                                 electric controls
mis-descrip-    ground                                  therefor, sold as
tive]           only]                                   a unit]


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

                                                No

                                                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