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

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

                             November 11-15, 2002



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

11-8**          EX              75/688,861              Naeem Khalid

11-13           EX              75/844,706              University of
                                                        Washington


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "SAM'S FOOD
                Affirmed                                STORES"
                                                        (and design)
                                                        [convenience store
                                                        services featuring
                                                        food and non-alco-
                                                        holic beverages]

genericness     Refusal                                 "RESEARCHCHANNEL"
(whether        Reversed                                [video storage
applicant's                                             media containing
mark is                                                 video programs
registrable                                             relating to aca-
on the                                                  demic, business,
Supplemental                                            and scientific
Register)                                               research, namely,
                                                        prerecorded video
                                                        tapes, compact
                                                        discs, laser
                                                        discs, DVDs, and
                                                        memory cards]


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

"SAM'S" and                                     No
"SAM'S
(and design)
[both marks for retail
wine, liquor, and
beverage store
services]

                                                No


**Inadvertently omitted from the Summary of Final Decisions issued for
the week of November 4-8, 2002

(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