United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 26 August 2003

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

                               July 21-25, 2003



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

7-22            OPP             114,039                 Cross Country
                                                        Bank v. Cross
                                                        Country Financial
                                                        Corp.

7-22            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
                (R)


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

2(e)(1);        Opposition                              "CROSS COUNTRY
2(e)(2)         Dismissed                               FINANCIAL
                                                        CORPORATION"
                                                        [lease-purchase
                                                        financing and
                                                        collection of
                                                        retail installment
                                                        sales contracts
                                                        and consumer
                                                        credit
                                                        transactions]

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


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

                                                No

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