United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 10 June 2003

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

5-7             EX              75/909,661              Food Processing
                EX              75/909,662              Equipment Co.
                EX              75/909,664
                EX              75/909,666
                EX              75/909,667
                EX              75/909,668
                EX              75/917,250


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "MEGA TUMBLER,"
                Affirmed                                "MEGA SYSTEMS,"
                in all                                  "MEGA LIFT," "MEGA
                seven                                   METERING SYSTEM,"
                cases                                   "MEGA MEAT PRESS,"
                (but                                    "MEGA DUMPER,"
                only with                               and "MEGACOOKER"
                respect to                              [all seven marks
                the cited                               used in connection
                MEGA SERIES                             with one or more
                mark)                                   food processing
                                                        machines, all used
                                                        in processing
                                                        meat, chicken,
                                                        and/or pet food]


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

2 cited registrations,                          No
owned by different entities:
"MEGGA"
[machine for loading eggs
into egg trays in the
nature of flats and into
cartons] and "MEGA SERIES"
[food machinery for
commercial manufacture of
corn products, pizzas,
tortillas and tortilla chips]


(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