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

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

                               July 15-19, 2002



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

7-15            EX              75/831,673              Equinix, Inc.

7-16            EX              75/787,260              E & E Hosiery Inc.


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

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "INTERNET
                Affirmed                                BUSINESS EXCHANGE"
                                                        [providing
                                                        multiple user
                                                        access to a global
                                                        communication
                                                        network featuring
                                                        the provision of
                                                        unlimited and
                                                        unrestricted
                                                        interconnection
                                                        among the Internet
                                                        Service Providers
                                                        (ISPs), content
                                                        providers,
                                                        carriers and
                                                        Component Service
                                                        Providers (CSPs)]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "PLANET SOX"
                Affirmed                                [hosiery
                                                        and socks]


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

                                                No

"COLLECTION ...                                 No
PLANET SOCKS"
(and design)
[clothes, namely,
socks, t-shirts,
ties, and suspenders]


(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