Summary of Final Decisions
Issued by the
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
November 18-22, 1996
Type Proceeding
Date of or Party/
Issued Case (1) App'n No. Parties
2-26 OPP 85,880 SAS Institute Inc.
OPP 85,881 v. Scientific and
OPP 85,884 Engineering Soft-
OPP 85,903 ware, Inc.
OPP 85,952
Opposer's/ Applicant's/
Petitioner's Respondent's
TTAB Mark and Mark and
Issue Decision Goods/Services Goods/Services
2(d) Oppositions "SAS," "SAS/IMS," "SES"
Dismissed "SAS/IMS-DL/I," (and design),
(and others) "SES/SIM,"
[all for "prere- "SES/SCOPE,"
corded computer "SES/DESIGN," and
programs" and/or "SES/RTL"
"computer program [all five marks
manuals"]; for "computer pro-
"SAS/ETS" grams and instruc-
[prerecorded com- tional manuals
puter programs supplied there-
pertaining to with, all for use
econometrics and in the evaluation,
time series analy- design and simula-
sis and computer tion of complex
program manuals electronic
pertaining to systems"]
same];
"SAS"
(in stylized let-
tering)[computer
programs for use
in data management
and analysis and
information pro-
cessing and user
manuals for such
programs];
"SAS/ASSIST"
[computer programs
for use as a menu
driven user inter-
face];
"SAS/STAT"
[computer programs
for use in data
analysis and in-
formation proces-
sing and user man-
uals for such pro-
grams];
"SAS/CPE"
[computer programs
used in computer
performance evalu-
ation and user
manuals for such
programs]; et al.
Mark and
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