United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 31 August 2004

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

                               July 26-30, 2004



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

7-27            EX              75924406                BioSpace
                                                        Int'l., Inc.


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

whether the     Refusal                                 "DYNAMICALLY
matter          Affirmed                                CONTROLLED
applicant                                               CRYSTALLIZATION
seeks to                                                SYSTEM"
register                                                [scientific
functions as                                            research in the
a service                                               field of protein
mark or                                                 crystallization,
merely                                                  growth and
identifies a                                            structures,
process,                                                namely, growing
system, or                                              crystals, DNA and
method used                                             RNA, determining
in                                                      the macromolecular
connection                                              structure of
with                                                    crystals, crystal
applicant's                                             diffractions,
services                                                crystal typography,
                                                        and crystal micro
                                                        examination;
                                                        growing crystals
                                                        employing the
                                                        earth's gravita-
                                                        tional field,
                                                        microgravity,
                                                        levitational
                                                        techniques, using
                                                        gradients, arti-
                                                        ficial intelligence
                                                        and other novel
                                                        crystallization.
                                                        Scientific research
                                                        in the field of
                                                        cell growth
                                                        studies]


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

                                                No


(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