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

1-4             EX              75/120,143              Ed Tucker
                                                        Distributor, Inc.

1-5             EX              74/711,715              De Ster Corp.
                EX              74/711,899
                EX              74/721,195

1-5             EX              75/168,250              Heartstent Corp.

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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "BIKE IN A BOX"
                Affirmed                                [rolling chassis
                                                        for a custom
                                                        motorcycle sold
                                                        in a kit of pre-
                                                        packaged parts]

whether         Refusal                                 configurations of
applicant's     Affirmed                                three storage
three           (in all three                           containers
product con-    applications)                           [plastic
figurations                                             containers for
have acquired                                           food storage]
distinctive-
ness as
trademarks
[Sec. 2(f)]

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "HEARTSTENT"
                Reversed                                [medical implants
                                                        used to perform
                                                        coronary bypass
                                                        surgery, namely,
                                                        rigid conduits for
                                                        surgical implanta-
                                                        tion for creating
                                                        a fluid passageway
                                                        between heart
                                                        ventricle and
                                                        coronary artery
                                                        downstream from a
                                                        coronary obstruc-
                                                        tion]

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

"BRAKE-IN-A-BOX"                                No
[brake structural and
replacement parts]

                                                No

                                                No

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