United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 03 December 2002

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

                              October 21-25, 2002



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

10-22           EX              76/118,122              Tanabe Tetsundo

10-22           EX              75/271,392              Simulation
                                                        Techniques, Inc.

10-22           EX              76/221,175              Orion Mortgage
                                                        Advisors, LLC


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

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "SPORTS CHANBARA"
                Affirmed                                [teaching of
                                                        arts, sports or
                                                        knowledge com-
                                                        prising teaching
                                                        of short sword,
                                                        teaching of long
                                                        sword, teaching of
                                                        spear, teaching of
                                                        halberd, teaching
                                                        of stick art and
                                                        teaching of cane
                                                        art]

2(e)(1); 2(d)   Refusal                                 "SIMTEST"
                Affirmed                                [computer
                on 2(e)(1)                              software, namely,
                ground only                             software that pro-
                                                        vides control cap-
                                                        abilities for lab-
                                                        oratory simulation
                                                        test equipment in
                                                        the nature of road
                                                        simulators]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "ORION"
                Affirmed                                [mortgage
                                                        brokerage
                                                        services]


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

                                                No

"CIMTEST"                                       No
[computer software
for use in the electronic
manufacturing market and
used as a control system
to ensure that automotive
test equipment properly
performs its functions]

"ORION"                                         No
[commercial and residential
real estate brokerage;
commercial and residential
real estate development]


(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