United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 16 January 2007

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

                          December 11-15, 2006



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

12-11           EX              78456723                Black


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "HELLO WORLD"
                Affirmed                                [electronic
                                                        transmission of
                                                        live, prerecorded
                                                        and interactive
                                                        pictures, video,
                                                        text and audio over
                                                        a global computer
                                                        network; electronic
                                                        store-and-forward
                                                        messaging]


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

"HELLO WORLD                                    No
COMMUNICATIONS"
[rental of
telephones]


(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