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

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

                             September 8-12, 2003


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

9-8             EX              75/777,087              Universal Premium
                                                        Acceptance Corp.

9-8             EX              76/196,190              Titan Technologies
                                                        Int'l., Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "e-PFA"
                Affirmed                                [electronic
                as to both                              transmission of
                cited                                   insurance premium
                registrations                           financing
                                                        information]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "TITAN TECHNOLOGIES
                Affirmed                                INTERNATIONAL,
                                                        INC."
                                                        [power tools,
                                                        namely, power
                                                        wrenches; wholesale
                                                        distributorships
                                                        and on-line retail
                                                        store services,
                                                        both featuring
                                                        power wrenches;
                                                        technical
                                                        consultation in the
                                                        field of power
                                                        wrenches]


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

2 cited registrations, owned by two             No
different entities:
"PFA EXPRESS"
[commercial premium finance
administrative services in the
nature of providing financial
rates and terms, for use by others]
and
"Epfa"
[mortgage lending services]

"TITAN TOOLS"                                   No
(and design)
[oil field hand tools and
instruments, namely, tongs,
wrenches, swivels, flange
spreaders, pipe dollies,
and wire guide lines]


(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