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

                           March 30 - April 3, 1998



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

3-4             EX              75/023,672              HMV Group Ltd.

3-4             OPP             100,296                 Taylor Made Golf
                                                        Co., Inc. v. R & M
                                                        Golf Co.

3-5             EX              74/418,140              Nellcor Puritan
                                                        Bennett Inc.

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

2(e)(4)         Refusal                                 "DILLONS"
                Affirmed                                [retail music,
                                                        video, computer,
                                                        magazine, book and
                                                        stationery store
                                                        services]

2(d)            Opposition      "BUBBLE"                "BALLOON SHAFT"
                Dismissed       [golf clubs and         [golf shafts and
                                golf club shafts]       golf clubs]

de jure         Refusal                                 knob configuration
fuctionality;   Affirmed                                [medical instru-
whether the     (but only on                            ments, namely,
configuration   the ground of                           pulse oximeters]
applicant       lack of dis-
seeks to        tinctiveness)
register as a
trademark is
inherently
distinctive
or has
acquired
distictive-
ness through
use in
commerce,
under
Section 2(f)

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

                                                No

                                                No

                                                No

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