United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 24 May 2005

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

                          April 18-22, 2005



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

4-19            CANC            92032746                U.S. Conference of
                                                        Catholic Bishops v.
                                                        Media Research
                                                        Center

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

2(d);           Petition to     "CNS" and "CNS          "CNS NEWS.COM
affirmative     Cancel Denied   NEWS"                   CYBERCAST NEWS
defenses of     (but not on the [providing an           SERVICE"
genericness     basis of the    on-line news            (and design)
or non-dis-     asserted        service                 [computer
tinctiveness,   affirmative     featuring news,         services,
laches and      defenses)       cartoons, photos,       namely,
estoppel                        etc. of interest        providing
                                to Catholics            information
                                and/or from a           on-line
                                Catholic                concerning news,
                                perspective];           special interest
                                "CATHOLIC NEWS          and opinions]
                                SERVICE"
                                [newsletters,
                                periodicals, and
                                brochures
                                containing
                                information about
                                current affairs,
                                including news,
                                features and
                                photographs,
                                from a Catholic
                                perspective;
                                distribution of
                                news, features,
                                and photographs
                                of current
                                events from a
                                Catholic
                                perspective via
                                a global
                                computer
                                information
                                network, postal
                                services and
                                print
                                publications]

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