Summary of Final Decisions
Issued by the
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
October 14-18, 1996
Type Proceeding
Date of or Party/
Issued Case (1) App'n No. Parties
10-15 EX 74/463,452 Nitto Seiko Co.
Ltd.
10-16 EX 74/463,357 Thermo King Corp.
10-16 EX 74/200,625 Father Flanagan's
Boys' Home
10-17 OPP 94,166 TJX Companies,
Inc. v. Wyatt
10-17 CANC 19,976 Hershey Food
Corp. v.
Chocoladen-
fabriken
Lindt & Sprungli
AG
10-18 EX 74/475,823 SABH (U.S.) Water
(R) Heater Group, Inc.
10-18 EX 74/215,150 Ghaleb M. Y.
Alhamad
Opposer's/ Applicant's/
Petitioner's Respondent's
TTAB Mark and Mark and
Issue Decision Goods/Services Goods/Services
2(d) Refusal "NITTO"
Affirmed (and design)
[automatic screw
fastening
machines,
automatic screw
driving machines,
automatic nut
fastening
machines,
automatic riveting
machines,
automatic
eyeletting
machines,
automatic pin
inserting
machines,
and assembly
robots]
2(d) Refusal "ZER-O"
Reversed [environmentally
safe transport
refrigeration
and heating units
having no ozone
depletion
substances
and no
chlorofluoro-
hydrocarbons]
whether Refusal "SODAS"
matter Affirmed [educational
asserted for services--namely,
registration offering and
functions as conducting
a servicemark courses of
for the instruction in
services the field of
recited in problem solving]
the
application
2(d) Opposition "THE VALUE MART" "VALUE MAX"
Dismissed [leasing store [product
facilities merchandising
for multiple services in
vendors to the field of
sell manufactured textiles, bedding,
wares] towels, white
goods, clothing,
dry goods,
durable goods,
hardware and other
general goods]
Abandonment Petition to "GUBOR"
Cancel [cocoa; products
Granted of cocoa-namely,
chocolate and
candies]
2(d) Request for "TINY TITAN"
Reconsideration [water heaters for
Denied (Refusal domestic or
Affirmed) commercial or
industrial use]
2(e)(2) Refusal "RIYADH"
Affirmed [metal working
machines for
making expanded
metal net for
controlling fires
and explosions]
Mark and
Goods of Registration Recommended
Cited by for
Examining Atty. Publication
"NITTA" No
[belts and belt
conveyors]
"ZEROFREEZ" No
(in stylized lettering)
[refrigerators]
No
No
No
"TITAN" No
[portable electric space
heaters]
No
(1)EX=EX PARTE APPEAL; OPP=OPPOSITION; CANC=CANCELLATION; CU=CONCURRENT
USE; (SJ)=SUMMARY JUDGMENT; (R)=REQ. FOR RECONSIDERATION