United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 06 May 2003

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

                           March 31 - April 4, 2003



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

3-31            EX              76/174,403              Chanel, Inc.

4-1             EX              75/980,776              Linguistique et
                                                        Intelligence
                                                        Artificielle


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

Section 6       Refusal                                 "ULTRA
disclaimer      Affirmed                                CORRECTION"
requirement                                             [skin care
(of the word                                            preparations,
CORRECTION)                                             namely,
                                                        moisturizer]

whether         Refusal                                 "LIDIA RETRIEVER"
applicant's     Reversed                                [business consul-
specimens                                               tation directed to
show service                                            the research and
mark use of                                             scientific analy-
its mark in                                             sis of the syntax
connection                                              of written and
with the                                                oral communica-
services                                                tions, with
recited in its                                          particular regard
application                                             to discerning the
                                                        main ideas of such
                                                        communications and
                                                        their associated
                                                        ideas, especially
                                                        to enable intelli-
                                                        gent indexing
                                                        of such
                                                        communications]


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

                                                No

                                                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