United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 03 January 2006

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

                         November 28-December 2, 2005



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

11-28           EX              76563024                MRI
                                                        Leasing Corp.

11-28           EX              76351071                Build-A-Bear
                                                        Workshop, Inc.

11-28           OPP             91154595                Bruker
                (SJ)                                    Daltonics, Inc.
                                                        v. PerSeptive
                                                        Biosystems, Inc.
                                                        and Applied
                                                        Biosystems/MDS
                                                        Sciex Instruments

11-29           EX              76602722                Worldwise, Inc.


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

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "GLOBAL BROKER
                Affirmed                                SYSTEMS"
                                                        [providing training
                                                        in the field of
                                                        operating a finance
                                                        company]

whether         Refusal                                 design comprising
the matter      Affirmed                                a stylized repre-
applicant                                               sentation of parts
seeks to                                                of a teddy bear,
register                                                applied to a hanger
functions                                               [toy accessories,
as a mark                                               namely, toy
for its                                                 clothing]
recited
goods

whether         Opposition                              "TOF/TOF"
applicant's     Sustained                               [mass spectrometry
mark is         (Opposer's                              instrumentation,
generic or,     motion for                              namely, time-of-
in the          summary                                 flight mass
alternative,    judgment                                spectrometers and
merely          granted)                                components there-
descriptive                                             for, and related
and without                                             software, for use
distinctiveness                                         in chemical and
under                                                   biological
Section 2(f)                                            applications]

2(e)(1);        Refusal                                 "FISHBONZ"
2(d)            Affirmed                                [cat toys]
                on both
                grounds


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

                                                No

                                                No

                                                No

"FISHBONE"                                      No
and
"FISHBONE"
(and design)
[both marks for a
wide range of goods,
including dog toys]


(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