United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 12 April 2005

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

3-10            EX              78064146                Verbum AB

3-10            EX              76231575                General
                                                        Semiconductor, Inc.

3-10            EX              76302105                Pioneer Investment
                                                        Management, Inc.

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

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "BERLING"
                Reversed                                [computer
                                                        software for use
                                                        in displaying and
                                                        printing digital
                                                        typeface designs
                                                        and typographic
                                                        ornaments]

2(d)            Refusal                                 "SMF"
                Affirmed                                [semiconductors]
                as to both cited
                registrations

2(d)            Refusal                                 "UNI-K PLAN"
                Reversed                                [financial
                                                        investment and
                                                        advisory
                                                        services, namely,
                                                        providing 401(k)
                                                        retirement plans
                                                        for small
                                                        businesses and
                                                        owner-only
                                                        businesses]

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

                                                No

2 cited                                         No
registrations,
both owned by the
same entity:
"SMF-28" and
"SMF28e2"
[both marks for
optical fiber]

"UNIPLAN"                                       No
[training others
in implementing
qualified
retirement
plans through
training
seminars, and
providing
prototype
qualified
retirement
plans in
connection
therewith]

(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