United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 27 August 2002

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

7-18            EX              75/799,561              Medical Risk
                                                        Management
                                                        Associates, LLC

7-18            EX              75/780,993              Media.Net
                                                        Communications,
                                                        Inc.


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

whether         Refusal                                 "MEDICAL RISK
applicant's     Affirmed                                MANAGEMENT
recitation of   on all                                  ASSOCIATES, LLC"
services is     grounds                                 (and design)
sufficiently    asserted                                [consulting and
definite;                                               training services
whether                                                 in the fields of
applicant is                                            sentinel event
required to                                             policy, root cause
submit a new                                            analysis, action
drawing;                                                planning and
whether                                                 training for
applicant                                               avoiding and
must submit                                             reducing
a description                                           incidences and
of its mark;                                            likelihood of
Section 6                                               significant
disclaimer                                              adverse event
requirement                                             occurrences for
(of all the                                             hospitals,
words in its                                            clinics, medical
composite                                               insurance
mark)                                                   companies, and
                                                        health maintenance
                                                        organizations]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "MEDIA.NET
                Affirmed                                COMMUNICATIONS"
                                                        [providing high
                                                        bandwidth fiber
                                                        optic network
                                                        services to medium
                                                        and large sized
                                                        businesses in the
                                                        entertainment
                                                        industry, which
                                                        enables them to
                                                        create, produce,
                                                        edit and
                                                        distribute various
                                                        entertainment and
                                                        media products]


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

                                                No

"MEDIANET"                                      No
[communications
services, namely,
transmitting the data
and messages of
others between
terminals, primarily
via coaxial cable]


(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