United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 21 February 2006

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

1-17            EX              76536428                Elegant Headwear
                (R)                                     Co., Inc.

1-18            EX              76522619                CableTrim, Inc.

1-18            EX              75460305                America
                EX              75460306                Online, Inc.
                EX              75496386
                EX              75497543


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

2(d)            Request for                             "BABY'S FIRST"
                Reconsider-                             [baby bibs not
                ation Denied                            of paper]
                (Refusal
                Affirmed)

2(e)(1)         Refusal                                 "CABLETRIM"
                Affirmed                                [wood moldings]

genericness;    Refusal                                 "INSTANT
whether         Reversed                                MESSENGER"
applicant's     in all four                             and "AOL
marks, if not   cases and                               INSTANT MESSENGER"
generic, are    as to all                               [both marks for:
nonetheless     classes                                 in Class 38:
merely          [Marks                                  telecommunications
descriptive;    will be                                 services, namely,
whether         published                               electronic
applicant's     with 2(f)                               transmission of
marks, if       notation.]                              data, images and
merely                                                  documents via
descriptive                                             computer
though not                                              terminals;
generic, are                                            electronic mail
registrable                                             services; and
under                                                   facsimile
Section 2(f)                                            transmission;
                                                        in Class 39:
                                                        electronic storage
                                                        of data and
                                                        documents]
                                                        "INSTANT
                                                        MESSENGER"
                                                        and "AOL
                                                        INSTANT MESSENGER"
                                                        [both marks for:
                                                        in Class 42:
                                                        computer services,
                                                        namely, providing
                                                        multiple user
                                                        access to computer
                                                        networks and
                                                        bulletin boards
                                                        and the transfer
                                                        and dissemination
                                                        of a wide range of
                                                        information,
                                                        providing a wide
                                                        range of general
                                                        interest informa-
                                                        tion via computer
                                                        networks]


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

"BABY'S FIRST"                                  No
[infants' footwear]

                                                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