United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 04 Sep 2007

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

8-2             EX              79008210                Focus Magazin
                                79010009                Verlag


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "FOCUS"
                Affirmed                                (stylized)
                as to both                              [magazines,
                classes                                 periodicals,
                in one                                  newspapers and
                application;                            pamphlets in the
                Refusal                                 field of financial
                Affirmed                                and economic infor-
                as to two                               mation; publication
                classes,                                of magazines,
                but                                     newspapers, period-
                Reversed                                icals, pamphlets
                as to the                               and books in the
                third, in                               field of economic
                the other                               and financial
                application                             information];
                                                        "FOCUS MONEY"
                                                        [same two classes
                                                        as above, plus
                                                        television broad-
                                                        casting in the
                                                        field of economic
                                                        and financial news
                                                        programs and
                                                        advertising]


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

"FINANCIAL FOCUS"                               No
[financial newsletter
and financial advice
column directed to
individual and
corporate investors];
and two registrations
owned by the same
entity for
"FOCUS" and "FOCUS"
(with stylized O)
[both for periodical
which relates to
economic and political
issues affecting
minorities and others]


(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