United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 04 January 2005

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

12-1            EX              76296698                Midland Mortgage
                                                        Co.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "MIDLAND MORTGAGE"
                Affirmed                                [financial
                as to both                              services, namely,
                cited                                   mortgage
                registrations                           origination and
                                                        servicing of loans
                                                        for others]


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

2 cited registrations, both                     No
owned by the same entity:
"MIDLAND COMMERCIAL FUNDING"
[financial services, namely,
commercial mortgage loan
program that originates,
purchases and aggregates
mortgage loans secured by
commercial and multi-family
real estate for sale in
securitizations using
capital markets]
and
"MIDLAND LOAN SERVICES"
[financial services, namely,
servicing mortgage loans
secured by commercial and
multi-family real estate;
originating, purchasing, and
securitizing mortgage loans;
and asset management for
portfolios of commercial and
multi-family real estate
owned by third parties,
namely, 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