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

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

10-21           EX              76414813                Panasonic
                                                        Corporation of
                                                        North America

10-21           OPP             91122072                First Niagara
                OPP             91122224                Insurance Brokers,
                OPP             91122193                Inc. v. First
                OPP             91122450                Niagara Financial
                OPP             91122712                Group, Inc.
                OPP             91150237


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

genericness     Refusal                                 "PUREFLAT"
[whether        Affirmed                                [television
applicant's                                             monitors]
mark is
registrable
on the
Supplemental
Register]

2(d);           Opposition      "FIRST NIAGARA,"        "FIRST NIAGARA"
whether         Dismissed       "FIRST NIAGARA          [banking services,
opposer         in all          INSURANCE BROKERS,"     insurance services
has used        six cases       and "FIRST NIAGARA      (of various sorts),
its marks                       INSURANCE BROKERS,      financial services
"in commerce"                   INC."                   (of various sorts),
                                (and design)            leasing services
                                [all three marks        (of office
                                for insurance           equipment,
                                brokerage services      construction
                                and other               equipment, building
                                financial services]     machinery, and
                                                        motor vehicles)];
                                                        "FIRST NIAGARA
                                                        FINANCIAL GROUP"
                                                        and
                                                        "FIRST NIAGARA"
                                                        (and design)
                                                        [both marks for
                                                        the same services
                                                        recited above];
                                                        "FIRST NIAGARA
                                                        ONLINE," "FIRST
                                                        NIAGARA BANK'S
                                                        CUSTOMER
                                                        CONNECTION LINE,"
                                                        and
                                                        "FIRST NIAGARA
                                                        E-CD"
                                                        [all three marks
                                                        for banking
                                                        services]


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

                                                No

                                                Yes


(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