United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 30 November 2004

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

                          October 25-29, 2004

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

10-26           EX              75372720                Luppen
                                                        Holdings,
                                                        Inc.


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

2(e)(1); 2(a)   Refusal                                 "PERSONAL POST
[false          Reversed                                OFFICE"
suggestion of                                           [hand-held metal
a connection];                                          scales for
2(d)                                                    weighing letters
                                                        and small
                                                        packages]


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

4 cited                                         No
registrations,
all owned by the
same entity:
"UNITED STATES
POST OFFICE,"
"UNITED STATES
POST OFFICE
EXPRESS,"
"UNITED STATES
POST OFFICE"
(and eagle
design),
and
"UNITED STATES
POST OFFICE
EXPRESS
(and eagle
design)
[all four marks
for mail
services,
namely, sorting,
handling, and
receiving
packages and
letters; retail
store services
featuring
stamps,
philatelic
products,
stationery, and
other mailing
materials,
novelty items,
and other
merchandise;
postal services,
namely,
packaging
articles for
transportation,
letter and
parcel delivery
and rental of
mailboxes]


(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