United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 14 December 2004
Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
November 8-12, 2000
Date Type of Proceeding
Issued Case (1) or App'n No. Party/Parties
11-9 EX 76286578 GeoMet, Inc.
(corrected
copy mailed
11-10)
11-10 EX 76490830 State Street
Palazzio
Trattoria
Italiana, Inc.
Opposer's/ Applicant's/
Petitioner's Respondent's
TTAB Mark and Mark and
Issue Decision Goods/Services Goods/Services
2(d) Refusal "GEOMET, INC"
Reversed (and design)
in all three [in Class 39:
classes public utility
services in
the nature of
natural gas
and coalbed
methane gas
distribution;
in Class 40:
oil and gas well
treatment; gas
production
services,
namely, natural
gas and coalbed
methane gas
production
services;
in Class 42:
geophysical
exploration for
the oil and gas
industries;
management and
design of oil
and gas well
drilling; oil
and gas well
prospecting,
namely, well
logging and
testing; coalbed
methane resource
assessment;
development of
coalbed methane
resources]
2(d) Refusal "GO FISH AND
Affirmed CHIPS"
[restaurant
services]
Mark and Citable as
Goods Cited by Precedent
Examining Atty. of TTAB
2 cited No
registrations,
owned by the
same entity:
"GEOMET" and
"GEOMET"
(and design)
[both marks for
environmental
research
services,
namely, energy
conservation and
monitoring
indoor air
quality, ambient
emission
control, and
technological
research with
respect to
geographic
information
systems,
electromagnetic
fields, weather
characterization
and
meteorological
systems for
utilities, radon
mitigation and
life cycle
assessment]
"GO FISH" No
[restaurant
services]
(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