United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 27 November 2001

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

                          October 15-19, 2001



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

10-15           EX              75/475,767              British-American
                                                        Tobacco (Holdings)
                                                        Ltd.

10-15           EX              75/592,357              Stock-system.com,
                                                        Inc.


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

Section 6       Refusal                                 "BRITISH AMERICAN
disclaimer      Affirmed                                TOBACCO"
requirement                                             (and design)
(of words                                               [direct mail
BRITISH                                                 advertising and
AMERICAN)                                               advertising agency
                                                        services, namely,
                                                        promoting the goods
                                                        and services of
                                                        others through the
                                                        distribution of
                                                        printed materials
                                                        and by rendering
                                                        sales promotion
                                                        advice]

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "POSITION COST
                Affirmed                                AVERAGING"
                                                        [computer
                                                        programs for
                                                        automatic
                                                        investment
                                                        management in the
                                                        field of personal
                                                        finance recorded on
                                                        discs; computer
                                                        software for
                                                        automatic
                                                        investment
                                                        management in the
                                                        field of personal
                                                        finance that may be
                                                        downloaded from a
                                                        global computer
                                                        network]


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