United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 12 October 2004

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

                             September 6-10, 2004



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

9-7             EX              76091230                Safeco
                                                        Financial
                                                        Institutions
                                                        Solutions, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "iORION"
                Affirmed                                [policy
                as to all                               management system
                five cited                              accessible over
                registrations                           the Internet for
                                                        on-line computer-
                                                        ized tracking of
                                                        insurance coverage]


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

5 cited registrations,                          No
all owned by the
same entity:
"ORION," "ORION CAPITAL"
(and design),
and "ORION SPECIALTY"
(and design)
[all three marks for,
inter alia, insurance
consulting services,
namely, evaluation of
insurance programs of
others in order to
analyze current or
potential risks, recommend
corrective actions and
to conduct follow-up
assessments for containing
risks and to conduct
insurance-related programs];
"ORIONAUTO"
[insurance claims
administration];
"ORION AUTOLINK"
[computer programs and
software that may be
downloaded from, or a
ccessed on a global or
other computer network
for use in insurance
administration, etc.]


(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