United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 17 May 2005

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

                           April 11-15, 2005



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

4-12            OPP             91124984                Gillette Canada
                                                        Company v. Robin
                                                        Research
                                                        Laboratories,
                                                        Inc.

4-12            OPP             91124801                Creative
                                                        Staffing, Inc.
                                                        v. Creative
                                                        Financial
                                                        Staffing, LLC

4-14            EX              75445415                Pacific Market,
                                                        Inc.

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

2(d);           Opposition      "ORAL B" and            "ORAL MAX"
dilution;       Dismissed       "ORAL-B"                (and design)
                                (in block letter        [electric
                                and stylized            toothbrush and
                                forms)                  dental flossing
                                [preventive             units]
                                dentistry
                                products]

2(d)            Opposition      "CREATIVE               "CREATIVE
                Sustained       STAFFING"               FINANCIAL
                                [employment and         STAFFING"
                                staffing services,      [providing
                                namely,                 temporary
                                employment              accounting,
                                recruiting and          bookkeeping
                                temporary and           and other
                                full-time               financial
                                employment and          services
                                staffing services]      personnel]

whether the     Refusal                                 the overall
matter          Affirmed                                configuration of
applicant                                               applicant's goods
seeks to                                                [drinkware, namely,
register has                                            thermal insulated
acquired                                                beverage
distinctiveness                                         containers]
as a trademark
and, therefore,
registrable
under Section
2(f)


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

                                                No

                                                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