United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 20 May 2003

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

4-15            EX              75/896,401              Express Tax
                                                        Service, Inc.

4-15            EX              76/186,809              Physicians
                                                        Practice, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "EXPRESS TAX
                Reversed                                SERVICE"
                                                        (and design)
                                                        [preparation of
                                                        income tax returns
                                                        and electronic
                                                        filing of tax re-
                                                        turns for others]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "PRACTICE
                Affirmed                                MANAGEMENT PEARLS"
                as to all                               [computer
                three cited                             services, namely,
                registrations                           providing on-line
                                                        magazines relating
                                                        to business,
                                                        marketing, finan-
                                                        cial and general
                                                        practice manage-
                                                        ment for
                                                        physicians and
                                                        medical personnel
                                                        via a global
                                                        computer network]


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

"TAX EXPRESS"                                   No
[income tax
preparation and
accounting services]

3 cited registrations,                          No
the first two of which
are owned by the
same entity:
"PEARL ONLINE"
[providing physicians
with professional
information in the
field of patient
medical records via a
web page on a global
computer network];
"MEDICAL PEARLS"
[for the
same services
identified above plus
leasing access to an
on-line computer
program for use in
the management of
patient medical
records];
"PEARLS FOR YOUR PRACTICE"
[column reprints and
supplements to
magazines relating to
the dental field]


(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