Summary of Final Decisions

                                 Issued by the

                       Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

                              October 27-31, 1997


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

10-27           EX              74/641,262              Smith &
                                                        Jones, Inc.

10-28           OPP             87,389                  V. La Rosa &
                CANC            20,853                  Sons, Inc. v.
                CANC            20,854                  John Zidian
                CANC            21,092                  Co., Inc.

10-29           EX              74/574,876              No Fear, Inc.
                EX              74/574,878

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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "BRATZ"
                Affirmed                                (and design)
                                                        [infants' and
                                                        children's
                                                        clothing, namely,
                                                        tops, bottoms,
                                                        sleepwear, hats,
                                                        coats, jackets
                                                        and parkas, ex-
                                                        cluding footwear]

2(d)            Opposition      "LA ROSA"               "LA RUSSA"
                Sustained       (and design)            (and design)
                [but only as    [spaghetti, la-         [processed toma-
                to the          sagna, macaroni,        toes and tomato
                pleaded mark    noodles and             based sauces]
                "LA ROSA"]      bread crumbs];
                                "RUSSO'S"
                                (in stylized let-
                                tering)
                                [alimentary
                                pastes]

whether the     Refusal                                 "NO DOUBT" and
matter as-      Reversed                                "NO CLUE"
serted for                                              [both marks for
registration                                            wearing apparel,
functions as                                            namely, t-shirts,
trademarks                                              shirts, shorts,
for appli-                                              pants, sweat
cant's goods                                            shirts, sweat
or functions                                            pants, hats,
merely as                                               visors, shoes,
product or-                                             sandals, and
namentation                                             belts]

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

"BRATS"                                         No
[footwear]

                                                No

                                                No

(1)EX=EX PARTE APPEAL; OPP=OPPOSITION; CANC=CANCELLATION; CU=CONCURRENT
USE; (SJ)=SUMMARY JUDGMENT; (R)=REQ. FOR RECONSIDERATION