United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 22 February 2005

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

                          January 17-21, 2005



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

1-18            EX              78139229                Artistic Studios
                                                        Limited, LLC


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

2(d);           Refusal                                 "ARTISTIC
Section 6       Affirmed                                STUDIOS LIMITED"
disclaimer      on both                                 [stationery
requirement     grounds                                 goods, namely,
(of words       and as                                  greeting
STUDIOS         to both                                 cards, calendars,
LIMITED)        registrations                           boxed notes,
                cited under                             writing pads,
                Section 2(d)                            note pads,
                                                        stencils,
                                                        posters,
                                                        children's
                                                        activity books,
                                                        paper
                                                        invitations,
                                                        photo albums,
                                                        keepsake boxes,
                                                        Christmas cards,
                                                        party favors and
                                                        wrapping paper]


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

2 cited registrations,                          No
owned by different
entities:
"ARTISTIC GREETINGS"
[name and address
labels; occasion cards;
name cards; note paper;
note paper holders and
note pads; personal and
business stationery;
calendars; sketch sheets;
wrapping paper; and a
number of other goods] and
"ARTISTIC"
[photograph albums,
scrapbooks, stencil and
die-cut shapes made of
cardboard for tracing
designs; and several
other goods]


(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