United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 15 November 2005

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

                              October 10-14, 2005



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

10-13           EX              78195284                WM Distribution
                                                        Inc.


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

2(a)            Refusal                                 "SANDIA"
[false          Reversed                                [cigarettes]
suggestion
of a
connection]

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