United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 03 January 2006
Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
November 28-December 2, 2005
Date Type of Proceeding
Issued Case (1) or App'n No. Party/Parties
11-28 EX 76563024 MRI
Leasing Corp.
11-28 EX 76351071 Build-A-Bear
Workshop, Inc.
11-28 OPP 91154595 Bruker
(SJ) Daltonics, Inc.
v. PerSeptive
Biosystems, Inc.
and Applied
Biosystems/MDS
Sciex Instruments
11-29 EX 76602722 Worldwise, Inc.
Opposer's/ Applicant's/
Petitioner's Respondent's
TTAB Mark and Mark and
Issue Decision Goods/Services Goods/Services
2(e)(1) Refusal "GLOBAL BROKER
Affirmed SYSTEMS"
[providing training
in the field of
operating a finance
company]
whether Refusal design comprising
the matter Affirmed a stylized repre-
applicant sentation of parts
seeks to of a teddy bear,
register applied to a hanger
functions [toy accessories,
as a mark namely, toy
for its clothing]
recited
goods
whether Opposition "TOF/TOF"
applicant's Sustained [mass spectrometry
mark is (Opposer's instrumentation,
generic or, motion for namely, time-of-
in the summary flight mass
alternative, judgment spectrometers and
merely granted) components there-
descriptive for, and related
and without software, for use
distinctiveness in chemical and
under biological
Section 2(f) applications]
2(e)(1); Refusal "FISHBONZ"
2(d) Affirmed [cat toys]
on both
grounds
Mark and Citable as
Goods Cited by Precedent
Examining Atty. of TTAB
No
No
No
"FISHBONE" No
and
"FISHBONE"
(and design)
[both marks for a
wide range of goods,
including dog toys]
(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