United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 06 January 2004
Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
December 1-5, 2003
Date Type of Proceeding
Issued Case (1) or App'n No. Party/Parties
12-1 EX 76231175 Globe Food
Equipment Co.
12-1 CANC 92041922 Build-a-Bear
(SJ) Workshop v. Silver
Dollar City, Inc.
12-2 EX 76294290 Motomco Ltd.
Opposer's/ Applicant's/
Petitioner's Respondent's
TTAB Mark and Mark and
Issue Decision Goods/Services Goods/Services
2(d) Refusal "CHEFMATE"
Affirmed [power operated,
as to both commercial, food
cited service machines,
registrations namely, meat
slicers, food
mixers, and food
processors]
2(d); Petition "BUILD-A-BEAR" "CREATE A CRITTER"
dilution to Cancel and a family of [stuffed toy
Dismissed marks incorpora- animals and plush
(Respondent's ting the words toy animals and
motion for "BUILD-A-_____" dolls and acces-
summary [stuffed toy sories therefor,
judgment animals and plush and kits for
granted) toy animals and creating stuffed
other goods] toy animals and
plush toy animals
and dolls and
accessories
therefor]
2(d) Refusal "TOMCAT
Affirmed QUICKSTRIKE"
[rodenticides]
Mark and Citable as
Goods Cited by Precedent
Examining Atty. of TTAB
2 cited registrations, No
both for the same
mark and both owned
by the same entity:
"CHEFMATE"
[kitchen utensils,
namely, pots and
pans] and [small
electric appliances or
apparatus for
household and home
kitchen use, namely,
choppers, mixers,
peelers, slicers, and
dicers]
No
"QUIKSTRIKE" No
[insecticides for
agricultural, domestic
and commercial use]
(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