United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 31 January 2006

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

                             December 26-30, 2005



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

12-27           EX              76543788                IdeaStream Consumer
                                                        Products LLC

12-30           EX              78290485                Edward D. Binkowski

12-30           EX              78223503                Waterstone Capital
                                                        Management, L.P.


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

2(e)(4)         Refusal                                 "VAULTZ"
                Reversed                                [purses]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "GRIP-N-RIP-IT"
                Affirmed                                [training device
                                                        for learning to
                                                        play golf]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "WATERSTONE"
                Reversed                                [financial
                                                        services, namely,
                                                        hedge fund manage-
                                                        ment services]



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

                                                No

"GRIPP & RIPP"                                  No
[golf training aids
and golf swing aids]

"WATERSTONE BENEFIT                             No
ADMINISTRATORS"
(and design)
[administration of
self-insured employee
benefit plans]


(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