United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 08 March 2005

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

2-4             EX              75602873                Joanne Slokevage
                (R)


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

whether the     Request                                 mark described
matter          for Recon-                              by applicant as:
asserted for    sideration                              "a configuration
registration    Denied                                  located on the
has acquired    (Refusal                                rear hips comprised
distinctive-    Affirmed,                               of:  a label in the
ness as a       but refusal                             center with the
trademark       will be set                             words FLASH DARE!
for             aside upon                              on a v-shaped
applicant's     submission                              background; and on
goods           of                                      each of the two
                disclaimer                              sides of it there
                of the                                  is a clothing
                "holes and                              feature (a cut-out
                flaps                                   area, or hole, and
                configura-                              flap affixed to
                tion"                                   seat area with a
                portion of                              closure device);
                mark)                                   the top borders
                                                        of the "holes"
                                                        also forming and
                                                        continuing the
                                                        "vee" shape]


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

                                                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