United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 02 December 2003

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

                          October 27-31, 2003



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

10-28           EX              76149957                Alliance Concrete
                                                        Concepts Inc.

10-29           EX              78017580                Sprint Lube Corp.


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

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "STONESKIRT"
                Affirmed                                [composite blocks
                                                        for skirting a
                                                        mobile home]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "SPRINT LUBE"
                Affirmed                                [in class 35:
                as to both                              retail store
                cited                                   services featuring
                registrations                           motor oil,
                                                        automobile fluids,
                                                        automobile filters
                                                        and automobile
                                                        lubricants; in
                                                        Class 37:  vehicle
                                                        preventative
                                                        maintenance
                                                        services, namely,
                                                        changing oil and
                                                        air filters]


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

                                                No

2 cited registrations,                          No
owned by different entities:
"SPRINT 500"
[automotive products, namely,
motor oil, automotive
lubricants, and transmission
fluid]
(cited against applicant's
services in Class 35) and
"SPRINT"
[automobile service station
services]
(cited against applicant's
services in Class 37)


(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