United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 19 April 2005

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

                               March 14-18, 2005


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

3-14            OPP             91119107                Corning Inc. v.
                                                        Vitrocrisa S.A. de
                                                        C.V. Company

3-14            OPP             91159613                Murphy Law Firm v.
                (SJ)                                    Michles & Booth,
                                                        P.A.

3-15            EX              76409236                American Airlines,
                                                        Inc.


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

2(d)            Opposition      "PYREX"                 "PYR-O-REY"
                Sustained       [glass baking ware and  [ovenware, namely,
                                other goods]            glass casseroles
                                and other marks         and bakeware]
                                incorporating the word
                                PYREX for the same and
                                related goods

2(d)            Opposition      "DON'T BE A VICTIM"     "DON'T BE A VICTIM
[priority];     Dismissed       [legal services]        TWICE"
whether         (applicant's                            [services of a law
applicant's     motion for                              firm, namely, legal
identification  summary                                 services]
of goods was    judgment
impermissibly   granted)
broadened
during
examination;
whether
applicant had
bona fide
intent to use
its mark on its
recited goods
as of the
filing date of
its application

2(d)            Refusal                                 "AMERICAN AIRLINES
                Affirmed                                NEXOS"
                                                        (and design)
                                                        [in flight
                                                        magazines]


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

                                                No

                                                No

"NEXOS"                                         No
(in stylized form)
[magazines in the field of arts,
literature, science, political
analysis, and cultural issues]


(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