United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 15 October 2002
Date Type of Proceeding
Issued Case (1) or App'n No. Party/Parties
9-6 OPP 116,554 Adobe Systems Inc.
v. Acro Software,
Inc.
Opposer's/ Applicant's/
Petitioner's Respondent's
TTAB Mark and Mark and
Issue Decision Goods/Services Goods/Services
2(d) Opposition a family of marks, "ACROFORM"
Sustained including: [computer software
(Opposer's "ACROBAT," "ADOBE for processing
motion for ACROBAT," electronic format
summary "ACROFORM," and forms]
judgment "ACROBAT FORMS"
granted) [all four marks for
computer programs
in the field of
electronic document
storage, manipulation,
transfer and
retrieval];
"ACROBAT EXCHANGE"
[computer software for
the creation, storage,
manipulation,
conversion,
transmission, transfer,
retrieval, viewing,
printing, editing and
annotation of
documents];
"ACROBAT CAPTURE"
[page recognition and
rendering computer
program];
"ACROBAT READER"
[computer software for
page recognition and
rendering for use in
viewing, printing,
navigating, editing,
annotating and indexing
electronic documents,
etc.];
"ACROBAT"
[computer software
technical support
services, etc.]
Mark and Citable as
Goods Cited by Precedent
Examining Atty. of TTAB
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