United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 05 October 2004

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

                     August 30 - September 3, 2004



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

8-31            EX              78101548                Sierra
                                                        Entertainment, Inc.

8-31            EX              74716462                USF&G
                                                        Corp.

8-31            EX              76406106                Bermark
                                                        Inc.

8-31            EX              76455401                Robert Fox,
                                                        Inc.

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

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "SPECIAL FORCES"
                Affirmed                                [computer game
                                                        software and
                                                        instruction manuals
                                                        sold therewith]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "VISIONPAK"
                Affirmed                                [insurance
                                                        underwriting
                                                        services for
                                                        emerging technology
                                                        companies in the
                                                        field of property
                                                        and casualty]

whether the     Refusal                                 "SILK TREND RUGS
designation     Affirmed                                OF NORTH AMERICA"
applicant                                               [rugs]
seeks to
register is
used as a
trademark
for its goods
or only as
applicant's
tradename

whether         Refusal                                 "CATCH THE THRILL
applicant's     Affirmed                                OF A GREAT BUY!"
mark as                                                 [retail store for
shown in its                                            ladies' clothing]
drawing is a
substantially
exact
representation of
the mark shown on
its specimens of
use
[mutilation]

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

                                                No

"VISION"                                        No
[underwriting
insurance services]

                                                No

                                                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