United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 25 November 2003

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

10-22           EX              76138824                Medical Central
                                                        Online, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "PATIENT NET"
                Reversed                                [providing
                                                        information and
                                                        updates of bed
                                                        availability in
                                                        nursing homes
                                                        to hospitals,
                                                        doctors, and
                                                        administrative
                                                        personnel to
                                                        assist in place-
                                                        ment of patients
                                                        in nursing homes
                                                        wherein the
                                                        information may be
                                                        accessible via a
                                                        global computer
                                                        network]


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

"PATIENTNET"                                    No
[computer hardware
and software for
acquiring, interpreting,
and distributing patient
status information through
local, wide area, and global
computer communications
networks; patient status
monitoring apparatus, namely,
electronic devices for
acquiring, interpreting,
analyzing, storing, processing
and distributing patient
medical vital signs data; central
monitoring apparatus for monitoring
patient vital signs;
physiologic monitors;
and patient support devices,
namely, intravenous pumps,
ambulatory transmitters, and
ventilators]


(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