United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 02 April 2002

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

                             February 18-22, 2002



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

2-20            EX              75/829,997              Action Staffing
                                                        Group, Inc.

2-20            EX              75/793,904              DeeDee Traylor Taft


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "ACTION STAFFING
                Reversed                                GROUP"
                                                        [employment agency
                                                        services]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "SPIN
                Affirmed                                COMMUNICATIONS"
                                                        (in stylized
                                                        lettering)
                                                        [public relations
                                                        services]


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

3 cited registrations owned by                  No
3 different entities:
"ACTION TEMPORARIES"
(and design)
[temporary employment placement
services];
"ACTION LABOR"
(and design)
[personnel placement and
recruitment services];
"ACTION PLUS INDUSTRIAL LABOR"
[temporary employment agency
services]

"SPINS"                                         No
[market research, analysis
and study services]


(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