United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 24 September 2002

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

                              August 12-16, 2002



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

8-12            EX              75/942,409              Shane Williams

8-12            OPP             117,420                 The Sunrider Corp.
                                                        v. Mineral Works

8-12            EX              75/637,523              Chilton and
                                                        Leste Consultants

8-13            EX              75/874,479              Wimbledon
                                                        Shops, Inc.


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

2(e)(1);        Refusal                                 "FIRE TRADER"
whether         Reversed                                [buying, selling,
applicant's                                             trading and
recitations                                             advertising of new
of services                                             and used fire
is                                                      safety and fire
sufficiently                                            safety-related
definite                                                products and
                                                        services via a
                                                        computerized
                                                        global network and
                                                        via printed
                                                        publication]

2(d)            Opposition      "VITALITE"              "VITALIZE"
                Sustained       [nutritional            [mineral-
                                supplements]            vitamin health
                                                        supplements]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "TENDER LOVING
                Affirmed                                CARE TLC HOME
                                                        HOSPICE"
                                                        (and design)
                                                        [hospice services]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "FRITZ'S BASKET
                Reversed                                BABIES"
                                                        [collectible
                                                        porcelain dolls]


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

                                                No

                                                No

"TENDER LOVING                                  No
CARE"
(in design format)
[home nursing services]

"FRITZ"                                         No
(in stylized
lettering)
[puppets]


(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