United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 19 December 2006

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

                          November 13-17, 2006



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

11-13           EX              78461678                Lockton Companies,
                                                        Inc.

11-14           EX              78638129                Brown-Forman
                                                        Corporation


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

2(e)(4)         Refusal                                 "ABANTE"
                Affirmed                                [in Class 35:
                in all                                  human resources
                classes                                 consultation;
                                                        employee benefit
                                                        plan account
                                                        auditing services;
                                                        conducting business
                                                        research and
                                                        surveys for human
                                                        resources and
                                                        employee benefits
                                                        purposes; in Class
                                                        36: employee
                                                        benefit analysis
                                                        services; employee
                                                        benefit plan
                                                        administration; and
                                                        other services; in
                                                        Class 38:
                                                        electronic data
                                                        transmission for
                                                        human resources and
                                                        employee benefit
                                                        professionals and
                                                        employers; in Class
                                                        42: reviewing
                                                        standards and
                                                        practices to assure
                                                        compliance with
                                                        employee benefit
                                                        laws and
                                                        regulations]

Section 6       Refusal                                 "GALA ROUGE"
disclaimer      Affirmed                                [wines]
requirement
(of the word
ROUGE)


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

                                                No

                                                Yes


(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