United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 15 October 2002

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

                           Septembe 2-6, 2002



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

9-4             EX              75/923,574              MS Artist Products,
                                                        Inc.

9-4             EX              75/687,474              Nygard Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "DREAMS COME
                Affirmed                                TRUE"
                as to Class                             [series of pre-
                9; Refusal                              recorded phonograph
                Reversed as                             records, audio
                to Classes 16                           tapes, video tapes
                and 41                                  and CDs featuring
                                                        music (in Class 9);
                                                        posters, unmounted
                                                        photographs and
                                                        paper featuring
                                                        coasters (in Class
                                                        16); entertainment,
                                                        namely, live
                                                        performance by a
                                                        musical group
                                                        (in Class 41)

2(d)            Refusal                                 "ALLISON & CO."
                Affirmed                                [women's clothing,
                                                        namely, jackets,
                                                        skirts, blouses,
                                                        pants, leggings,
                                                        shorts, pant suits,
                                                        shirts, camp
                                                        shirts, coats,
                                                        sweaters,
                                                        pullovers,
                                                        cardigans, tunics,
                                                        housecoats, jump
                                                        suits, gilets,
                                                        jeans, t-shirts, t-
                                                        tops, vests, tank
                                                        tops, knit tops,
                                                        culottes and suits]


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

"DREAMS COME TRUE PRODUCTIONS"                  No
[production and distribution of
documentaries, fiction and non-
fiction children's videos]

"ALLYSON SAN FRANCISCO"                         No
[clothing, namely, dresses,
skirts, blouses, skorts,
shorts, shirts, pants,
jackets, sweaters,
vests and jumpsuits]


(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