United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 14 May 2002

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

4-3             EX              76/023,196              VisualGold.
                                                        com, Inc.

4-3             EX              75/496,422              Best
                                                        Software, Inc.

4-3             EX              75/793,886              Cordis Corp.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "IMAGIST"
                Affirmed                                [computer
                                                        programs for use
                                                        in enhancing and
                                                        compressing elec-
                                                        tronic images
                                                        transmitted via a
                                                        global computer
                                                        network]

Section 6       Refusal                                 "BEST!
disclaimer      Affirmed                                IMPERATIV HRMS"
requirement                                             [computer
(of the                                                 software for human
word BEST)                                              resource, payroll,
                                                        W-2 and tax
                                                        processing
                                                        and employee
                                                        management]

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "CUSTOMCATH"
                Affirmed                                [designing
                                                        specialized
                                                        catheters for
                                                        others and to
                                                        specific customer
                                                        needs]


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

"IMAGIST"                                       No
[computer hardware
and software imaging
processing and
analyzing system,
namely, work station,
interface electronics,
disk drives, optical
disk drives, and image
input devices
including cameras and
monitors for use with
light and electron
microscopy]

                                                Yes

                                                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