United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 20 August 2002

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

                                July 8-12, 2002



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

7-9             EX              76/207,423              Hartford Fire
                                                        Insurance Co.

7-9             EX              75/783,289              Hytex
                                                        Industries Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "@VENTURE"
                Reversed                                [risk management
                                                        information
                                                        services]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "BEDFORD"
                Affirmed                                [decorative
                                                        vertical textiles,
                                                        namely, acoustical
                                                        panels for
                                                        vertical surfaces
                                                        for buildings sold
                                                        to the commercial
                                                        interiors market
                                                        through a
                                                        distribution net-
                                                        work of profes-
                                                        sionals who are
                                                        with interior
                                                        designers,
                                                        facility managers
                                                        and contractors in
                                                        their respective
                                                        markets]


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

"AVENTURES"                                     No
[forming strategic
alliances and joint
ventures, providing
technical assistance
and making
acquisitions and
investments in order
to develop and
promote the
commercialization of
electronic content,
products and services
via a global computer
network and other
electronic media]

2 cited registrations,                          No
owned by different
entities:
"BEDFORD VILLAGE"
[prefinished wall
paneling] and
"BEDFORD PARK"
[wallpaper sample;
wallpaper]


(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