United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 16 May 2006

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

                              April 10-14, 2006



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

4-12            EX              76171288                Aerospace
                                                        Optics, Inc.


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

whether         Refusal                                 "SPECTRUM"
applicant's     Affirmed                                (and design)
specimens                                               [illuminated push-
show                                                    button switches,
trademark                                               namely, pushbutton
use of its                                              switches with dim-
mark on its                                             mable illumination
recited goods                                           for use in military
                                                        and civilian air-
                                                        craft cockpits,
                                                        aviation crewsta-
                                                        tions, ships and
                                                        command, communica-
                                                        tions, control and
                                                        intelligence
                                                        systems]


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

                                                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