United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 07 January 2003

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

                          November 25-29, 2002



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

11-26           EX              76/031,072              Titan Int'l., Inc.

11-26           EX              76/086,771              Unimin Corp.

11-26           EX              76/039,649              Manhattan
                (R)                                     Scientifics, Inc.


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

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "TRACTION DRIVE"
                Affirmed                                [tires, namely,
                                                        tires for
                                                        agricultural
                                                        equipment]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "VANTAGE"
                Reversed                                [industrial
                                                        minerals, namely,
                                                        refractory clay
                                                        used to manufacture
                                                        refractory objects]

2(e)(1)         Request for                             "HYDROCYCLE"
                Reconsideration                         [operator
                Denied                                  controlled motor
                (Refusal                                propelled road
                Affirmed)                               vehicles, namely,
                                                        hydrogen fueled
                                                        bicycles]


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

                                                No

"ADVANTAGE"                                     No
[building materials,
namely, clay bricks]

                                                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