United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 14 January 2003

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

                              December 2-6, 2002



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

12-3            OPP             112,743                 Lucasfilm Ltd. and
                (R)                                     Lucas Licensing,
                                                        Inc. v. Mark Rose

12-4            EX              76/076,673              Caves Acacio
                                                        Vinhos de
                                                        Portugal, Lda.


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

2(d)            TTAB's          "STAR WARS"             "THE FORCE"
                8-29-02         [motion pictures        [equipment used to
                Decision        and other goods,        play a card game]
                Sustaining      including equip-
                Opposition      ment sold as a
                Vacated and     unit for playing
                Opposition      a board game];
                Dismissed       "MAY THE FORCE BE
                without pre-    WITH YOU"
                judice in       [motion pictures];
                view of         "THE FORCE"
                applicant's     [motion pictures
                having filed    and a variety of
                an express      toys and games,
                abandonment of  including card
                its             games]
                application,
                with opposer's
                consent, prior
                to TTAB's
                8-29-02
                decision

2(d)            Refusal                                 "ACACIO"
                Affirmed                                [rose wine]


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

                                                No

"ACACIA"                                        No
[wine]


(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