United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 27 March 2007

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

                             February 19-23, 2007



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

2-20            OPP             91162261                Hearst
                (SJ)                                    Communications, Inc.
                                                        v. TVNess, LLC


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

2(d)            Opposition      "COSMOPOLITAN"          "COSMO PARTY"
                Sustained       [magazines              [in Class 35:
                as to all       published monthly       providing consumer
                three           or at other             product information
                classes         intervals];             over global
                (opposer's      "COSMO GIRL!"           computer communica-
                motion          [providing an           tions networks,
                for             interactive on-line     particularly
                summary         computer database       concerning products
                judgment        featuring portions      in the field of
                granted)        of various              dating, parties,
                                magazines and           and event planning;
                                articles and            in Class 41:
                                illustrative            entertainment
                                materials in the        services, namely
                                fields of personal      providing on-line
                                relationships,          information con-
                                beauty and fashion,     cerning services,
                                health and fitness,     events, and
                                personal hygiene,       locations in the
                                stars and enter-        field of parties,
                                tainment news,          events, discussion
                                and life and work];     and entertainment;
                                and other marks         providing and
                                comprising or           organizing parties
                                incorporating           and events
                                the words               planning;
                                COSMOPOLITAN or         in Class 45:
                                COSMO, for a wide       providing on-line
                                range of goods and      computer dating
                                services related to     services, and
                                the above-recited       other services]
                                goods and services]


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

                                                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