United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 26 October 2004

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

                             September 20-24, 2004



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

9-20            EX              76222945                Ekstrom
                                                        Industries, Inc.

9-20            CANC            92031904                Bell, Inc. v.
                                                        Bell Packaging
                                                        Corp.


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

whether         Refusal                                 "OPTI-LOCK"
applicant's     Reversed                                [lockable
specimens                                               metal cover
show use of                                             for an optical
the mark it                                             communication
seeks to                                                port on an
register                                                electric watthour
[mutilation]                                            meter]

2(d)            Petition        trade name use of       "BELL PACKAGING
[priority]      to Cancel       "BELL, INC"             CORPORATION"
                Denied          [paperboard packing     [packing paper,
                                products business]      cardboard, and
                                                        packaging goods,
                                                        namely,
                                                        linerboards,
                                                        corrugating medium
                                                        paper, corrugated
                                                        boxes, adhesives
                                                        for stationery,
                                                        waxed paper,
                                                        wax paper bags;
                                                        consultation
                                                        services and
                                                        design of pallets,
                                                        storage rack
                                                        systems,
                                                        linerboard,
                                                        corrugating medium,
                                                        corrugated boxes,
                                                        and waxed paper
                                                        products]


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

                                                No

                                                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