United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 26 March 2002

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

2-14            EX              75/814,403              Industrial Vacuum
                                                        Systems, Inc.

2-14            EX              75/550,779              Primos, Inc.


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

Section 6       Refusal                                 "CARPET WIZARD"
disclaimer      Affirmed                                [carpet cleaning
requirement     on both                                 equipment, namely,
(of the word    grounds                                 shampooer, spot
CARPET);        and as to                               remover, and vacuum
2(d)            both cited                              cleaner]
                registrations
                                                        "HUNTING CALLS"
whether         Refusal                                 [game calls]
applicant's     Affirmed
mark has
acquired
distinctiveness
under Section
2(f)


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

"STEAMWIZARD"                                   No
and "DIRTWIZARD"
[both marks for vacuum cleaners for
domestic use and for industrial use,
and vacuum cleaner attachments,
namely, brush attachments and
squeegee attachments sold together
as a unit]

                                                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