United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 27 June 2006

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

5-24            EX              76543954                Associated
                                                        Couriers, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "ASSOCIATED
                Affirmed                                COURIERS, INC."
                as to all                               (in stylized
                twelve cited                            lettering)
                registrations                           [courier services,
                                                        namely the pickup,
                                                        delivery and
                                                        storage of medical
                                                        supplies for use
                                                        in nuclear
                                                        medicine]


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

12 cited registrations,                         No
all owned by the same
entity:
"ASSOCIATED COURIER EXPRESS"
(in stylized form)
and 11 other registered
marks, all the registered
marks incorporating the
word "ASSOCIATED";
and all the registrations
claiming use of the marks
in connection with air
and truck transportation
and storage of goods


(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