United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 25 January 2005

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

12-21           EX              76481350                Jonathan D. Butts

12-21           EX              76040856                U.S. Education
                EX              76040863                Finance
                                                        Management Corp.

12-22           OPP             91153610                Hamptons United
                                                        Multimedia
                                                        Productions, Inc.
                                                        v. Faro Media, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "THE BBQPITSTOP"
                Reversed                                (and design)
                                                        [restaurant
                                                        services]

2(e)(2)         Refusal                                 "U.S. PRESTAMOS
                Affirmed                                STAFFORD" and
                in both                                 "U.S. PRESTAMOS
                cases                                   DE CONSOLIDACION"
                                                        [both marks for
                                                        education loan
                                                        services; brokering
                                                        education loans]

2(d)            Opposition      "HAMPTONS STYLE"        "HAMPTONS STYLE"
[or, as the     Dismissed       [magazines]             [general
issue is                                                interest magazines
characterized                                           concerning luxury
in the opinion:                                         lifestyles in
"which party                                            East Hampton,
is the owner                                            Southampton and
of the                                                  surrounding
mark"]                                                  communities in
                                                        New York]


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

2 cited                                         No
registrations,
both owned by
the same entity:
"MAURICE'S GOURMET
BARBEQUE PIT-STOP
DRIVE-THRU"
(and design) and
"MAURICE'S GOURMET
BARBEQUE PIT-STOP"
(and design)
[both marks for
restaurant 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