United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 08 April 2003

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

3-6             EX              76/051,058              Trafficmaster, plc


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "TRAFFICMASTER"
                Reversed                                [electrical and
                                                        electronic
                                                        apparatus for
                                                        providing road
                                                        traffic informa-
                                                        tion, etc.;
                                                        electrical and
                                                        electronic
                                                        apparatus and
                                                        instruments
                                                        locatable in
                                                        vehicle interiors
                                                        for providing
                                                        visual and oral
                                                        information
                                                        relating to
                                                        road traffic
                                                        conditions;
                                                        electronic
                                                        equipment for
                                                        monitoring and
                                                        communicating with
                                                        individual road
                                                        vehicles; control
                                                        centers for
                                                        processing data
                                                        and monitoring and
                                                        communicating with
                                                        individual road
                                                        vehicles;
                                                        providing road
                                                        traffic
                                                        information, etc.]


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

"TRAFFICMASTER"                                 No
[portable non-
tippable display
apparatus for use in
displaying warning
messages in
emergency-type
situations in the
nature of non-electric
signs and metal sign stands]


(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