United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 27 September 2005

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

                              August 22-26, 2005


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

8-23            EX              76562723                Repro-Med
                                                        Systems, Inc.

8-23            EX              76393557                Trakloc
                                                        International, LLC

8-23            OPP             91156778                Phase Forward
                                                        Inc. v.
                                                        Mary Noel Adams


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "DENTAL-EVAC"
                Affirmed                                [portable dental
                                                        suction pump
                                                        activated by hand]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "TRAKLOC"
                Reversed                                [metal building
                                                        materials, namely,
                                                        structural beams
                                                        and posts for
                                                        forming walls in
                                                        residential and
                                                        commercial
                                                        structures]

2(d);           Opposition      "PHASE FORWARD"         "PHASE FORWARD"
dilution        Dismissed       and                     [consultation
                                "PHASEFORWARD"          services in the
                                (and "PF" design)       fields of product
                                [both marks for         management,
                                computer software       marketing and
                                used in the             business planning]
                                management of
                                clinical trials of
                                pharmaceutical
                                products and
                                medical devices
                                and management of
                                data resulting
                                therefrom];
                                "PHASEFORWARD"
                                (and design)
                                [clinical data
                                collection in the
                                field of clinical
                                and medical trial
                                management and
                                management services
                                related to human
                                clinical trials]


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

"E-VAC"                                         No
[removable protective
tip for dental aspirators]

"TRAC-LOC"                                      No
[flooring system
comprising non-metal
floor panels and
metal or plastic track
for mechanically
interlocking the floor
panels]

                                                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