United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 22 October 2002

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

9-11            EX              76/100,294              CMC Magnetics
                                                        Corp.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "S NICE SHIPPING"
                Reversed                                (and design)
                as to all                               [providing
                seven cited                             telecommunications
                registrations                           connections to a
                                                        global computer;
                                                        telecommunications
                                                        services, namely,
                                                        personal communi-
                                                        cation services;
                                                        broadcasting
                                                        programs via a
                                                        global computer
                                                        network;
                                                        electronic mail
                                                        services; web
                                                        casting audio and
                                                        visual programming
                                                        via a global
                                                        computer network]


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

7 cited registrations,                          No
owned by same entity:
"NICE"
(and design)
[communication
systems, namely,
direction finding and
monitoring systems,
etc.;
telecommunication
digital recording
systems, etc.;
command, analyzer
and control systems,
etc.];
"NICELOG"
and "NICECALL"
[both marks for
multimedia multi-channel
digital voice logging
system, etc.];
"NICEFAX"
[logging system,
comprising fax machines,
etc.];
"NICEFLOW"
[unified messaging
computer system, etc.];
"NICE"
(and design)
[telecommunication
digital recording
systems, etc.;
command analyzer
and controls systems,
etc.; unified messaging
platforms, etc.;
direction finding and
monitoring systems,
etc.];
"NICE VISION"
[video logging
systems, etc.]


(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