United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 14 December 2004

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

                          November 8-12, 2000

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

11-9            EX              76286578                GeoMet, Inc.
(corrected
copy mailed
11-10)

11-10           EX              76490830                State Street
                                                        Palazzio
                                                        Trattoria
                                                        Italiana, Inc.

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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "GEOMET, INC"
                Reversed                                (and design)
                in all three                            [in Class 39:
                classes                                 public utility
                                                        services in
                                                        the nature of
                                                        natural gas
                                                        and coalbed
                                                        methane gas
                                                        distribution;
                                                        in Class 40:
                                                        oil and gas well
                                                        treatment; gas
                                                        production
                                                        services,
                                                        namely, natural
                                                        gas and coalbed
                                                        methane gas
                                                        production
                                                        services;
                                                        in Class 42:
                                                        geophysical
                                                        exploration for
                                                        the oil and gas
                                                        industries;
                                                        management and
                                                        design of oil
                                                        and gas well
                                                        drilling; oil
                                                        and gas well
                                                        prospecting,
                                                        namely, well
                                                        logging and
                                                        testing; coalbed
                                                        methane resource
                                                        assessment;
                                                        development of
                                                        coalbed methane
                                                        resources]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "GO FISH AND
                Affirmed                                CHIPS"
                                                        [restaurant
                                                        services]

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

2 cited                                         No
registrations,
owned by the
same entity:
"GEOMET" and
"GEOMET"
(and design)
[both marks for
environmental
research
services,
namely, energy
conservation and
monitoring
indoor air
quality, ambient
emission
control, and
technological
research with
respect to
geographic
information
systems,
electromagnetic
fields, weather
characterization
and
meteorological
systems for
utilities, radon
mitigation and
life cycle
assessment]

"GO FISH"                                       No
[restaurant
services]

(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