United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 18 March 2003

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

2-11            EX              76/106,045              Laura M. Congemi

2-12            EX              76/308,467              David Lucas


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

whether         Refusal                                 "AUNT SAMANTHA-
applicant       Reversed                                AMERICA FIRST"
may amend                                               [original identi-
its identi-                                             fication of goods:
fication                                                "female version
of goods                                                of Uncle Sam to
                                                        help promote
                                                        America's great-
                                                        ness"; amended
                                                        identification of
                                                        goods: "printed
                                                        matter containing
                                                        a female version
                                                        of `Uncle Sam'
                                                        with the expres-
                                                        sion "Aunt
                                                        Samantha-America
                                                        First"]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "NOVA VINEYARD"
                Affirmed                                [wine]


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

                                                No

"NOVA"                                          No
[vodka]


(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