United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 21 September 2004

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

                              August 16-20, 2004



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

8-17            EX              76440933                Glaze, Inc.

8-17            EX              74388732                Burnham
                                                        Services, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "VALENCIA"
                Affirmed                                [wristwatches]
                as to
                both cited
                registrations

2(d)            Refusal                                 "BF"
                Affirmed                                (in stylized
                                                        design form)
                                                        [metal foundry
                                                        services, namely,
                                                        preparing molds
                                                        and shaping metal
                                                        in the molds to
                                                        the order and
                                                        specification of
                                                        others]


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

2 cited registrations,                          No
owned by different
entities:
"VALENCIA"
[pearl necklaces and
other jewelry] and
"VALENZIA
COLLECTION"
[diamond and gold
jewelry, namely,
tennis bracelets,
earrings, necklaces,
rings, charm slides
and pendants]

"BF"                                            No
(and design)
[semi finished steel
products, namely, hot
rolled coil steel, cold
rolled coil steel, tube
steel, pipe steel, plate
steel, structural steel,
galvanized and other
treated coil steel,
reinforcing bar steel
and steel wire]


(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