United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 12 November 2002

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

10-1            EX              75/696,547              Center for
                                                        Change, Inc.

10-2            EX              75/698,596              Altair
                                                        Engineering, Inc.

10-3            EX              76/309,327              Vitaplex, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "CENTER FOR
                Affirmed                                CHANGE"
                                                        [counseling and
                                                        medical services,
                                                        namely, an in-
                                                        patient and out-
                                                        patient care
                                                        treatment, nutri-
                                                        tion counseling,
                                                        and recreational
                                                        therapy, all of
                                                        these services
                                                        provided for women
                                                        suffering from
                                                        eating disorders]

whether the     Refusal                                 "HYPERVIEW"
mark in         Reversed                                [computer soft-
applicant's                                             ware, namely, a
drawing is a                                            general purpose
"substantially                                          post-processor and
exact repre-                                            visualization tool
sentation" of                                           for mechanical
the mark shown                                          system simulation
in applicant's                                          and engineering
specimens of                                            data providing
use                                                     three dimensional
                                                        animation and XY
                                                        plotting capabili-
                                                        ties for analyzing
                                                        mechanical system
                                                        simulation
                                                        results]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "VERITAS"
                Affirmed                                [bottled water]


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

"CENTER FOR                                     No
CREATIVE CHANGE"
(and design)
[psychotherapy]

                                                No

"VERITAS"                                       No
[nutritional products,
vitamins, minerals,
weight loss products,
namely, dietary supplements]


(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