United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 19 September 2006

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

8-14            OPP             91157453                Atrium Medical
                                                        Corporation v.
                                                        Atrium
                                                        Biotechnologies,
                                                        Inc.

8-15            EX              76557930                DSS
                                                        Environmental,
                                                        Inc.


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

2(d)            Opposition      "ATRIUM"                "ATRIUM
                Dismissed       [a wide range           BIOTECHNOLOGIES"
                                of medical              [in Class 1:
                                products,               active ingredients
                                biomaterials            for use in the
                                and devices,            manufacture of
                                including               cosmetics and
                                products and            skin care
                                devices that            products, namely,
                                are used in             natural matrix
                                cardiology, general     metalloprotease
                                and cardiovascular      inhibitors,
                                surgery, and            natural protein
                                cosmetic surgery        extracts and
                                and biomaterials        natural protein
                                of polytetra-           concentrates;
                                fluoroethylene]         active ingredients
                                                        for use in the
                                                        manufacture of
                                                        nutritional
                                                        supplements,
                                                        namely, liquid
                                                        cartilage extracts;
                                                        in Class 5:
                                                        nutritional
                                                        supplements
                                                        made from shark
                                                        cartilage
                                                        extracts, animal
                                                        extracts and plant
                                                        extracts, not
                                                        for medical use]

genericness     Refusal                                 "DUALSAND"
[whether        Affirmed                                [water and
applicant's                                             wastewater filters]
mark is
registrable
on the
Supplemental
Register]


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

                                                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