United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 04 December 2001

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

                          October 22-26, 2001



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

10-22           EX              75/676,473              RiverRock Systems,
                                                        Ltd.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "RIVERROCK RADIX"
                Affirmed                                [computer software
                                                        and hardware for
                                                        providing
                                                        telecommunications
                                                        operations support,
                                                        namely, customer
                                                        care, billing,
                                                        rating, and
                                                        provisioning
                                                        functions]


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

"RADIX CORPORATION"                             No
(and design)
[designing and preparation of
computer programs and the
implementation and maintenance of
computer systems];
"RADIX"
(and design)
and "RADIX CORPORATION"
(and design)
[both  marks for computers,
computer peripherals,
computer operating
programs, computer
utility programs,
computer programs for
use in encoding,
transmitting and
processing data from
remote locations,
printers, optical
character readers, bar
code scanners,
couplers, multiplexers,
telephone modems, and
interface cables]

(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