United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 27 November 2001

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

10-17           EX              75/188,281              SICAN
                                75/188,288              Gesselschaft fur
                                                        Silizium-Anwen-
                                                        dungen und CAD/CAT
                                                        Niedersach-sen mbH


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

2(e)(1) as to   Refusal                                 "DESIGNOBJECTS"
both            Affirmed                                (in stylized
applications;   (in both                                lettering)
and, with       cases, on                               [computer programs
respect to      all grounds                             for the recording,
applicant's     asserted)                               processing,
service mark                                            transmission or
application,                                            reproduction of
whether                                                 sound or images;
applicant's                                             data processing
specimens                                               equipment, namely,
show service                                            audio decoders;
mark use of                                             semiconductors;
applicant's                                             data processing
mark in                                                 computer programs;
connection                                              and computer
with its                                                program library
recited                                                 modules for digital
services]                                               signal processing,
                                                        digital image
                                                        processing and
                                                        broad band
                                                        communication]
                                                        and
                                                        [computer software
                                                        design services,
                                                        namely, designing
                                                        computer program
                                                        library modules;
                                                        and design of
                                                        electronic devices
                                                        in conjunction with
                                                        computer program
                                                        library modules]


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

                                                No

(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