United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 15 June 2004

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

                                May 10-14, 2004



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

5-11            EX              76368583                Station
                                                        Casinos, Inc.

5-11            EX              76090924                Polytechnic
                                                        University


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "LOCALS FAVORITE"
                Reversed                                [casino services]

2(e)(4)         Refusal                                 "THE OTHMER
                Reversed,                               INSTITUTE FOR
                but                                     INTERDISCIPLINARY
                applicant                               STUDIES"
                required                                [educational
                to submit                               services, namely,
                disclaimer                              providing courses
                of words                                of instruction in
                INSTITUTE                               the field of
                FOR INTER-                              engineering and
                DISCIPLIN-                              how scientific and
                ARY STUDIES                             technological
                                                        methods affect and
                                                        influence such
                                                        instruction;
                                                        providing courses
                                                        of instruction on
                                                        the impact that
                                                        science and tech-
                                                        nology have on
                                                        society and
                                                        business; all such
                                                        instruction to be
                                                        provided by a col-
                                                        lege, university,
                                                        or facility for
                                                        higher learning,
                                                        for undergraduate
                                                        students, graduate
                                                        students, post
                                                        graduate students
                                                        and faculty
                                                        fellows]


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

"LOCAL FAVORITES"                               No
(in stylized lettering)
[business directories
for resort communities]

                                                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