United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 26 September 2006

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

                           August 21-25, 2006



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


8-22            EX              78397347                CFA Properties, Inc.


8-22            EX              76220155                Golf Club of
                                                        Nevada


8-22            EX              78350479                Eutectic
                                                        Corporation



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


2(d)            Refusal                                 "TRIM TRIO"
                Affirmed                                [restaurant
                                                        services]


2(d)            Refusal                                 "SECRETARIAT"
                Reversed                                (and design)
                                                        [wearing apparel,
                                                        namely, shirts,
                                                        pants, dresses,
                                                        swimwear, golf
                                                        gloves, caps and
                                                        a number of
                                                        other clothing
                                                        items, to be
                                                        marketed and sold
                                                        in relation to
                                                        golf course
                                                        services]


2(d)            Refusal                                 "XUPERARC"
                Affirmed                                [electric welding
                                                        machines for
                                                        resistance
                                                        welding,
                                                        incandescent
                                                        welding, sparc
                                                        welding and arc
                                                        welding;
                                                        autogenous
                                                        soldering machines;
                                                        machines and
                                                        machine tools for
                                                        the cutting and
                                                        forming of
                                                        materials; plasma
                                                        etching machines;
                                                        cutting torches;
                                                        and jets, tips
                                                        and nose pipes
                                                        for use with
                                                        plasma cutting
                                                        torches]


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


"TRIO"                                          No
[restaurant
services]


"SECRETARIAT"                                   No
[entertainment
services, in the
nature of
thoroughbred
racing]


"SUPERARC"                                      No
[welding wire
electrodes]


(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