United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 25 July 2006

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


6-22            EX              78465043                Liberty Bankers
                                                        Life Insurance
                                                        Company


6-22            OPP             91119934                Time Warner
                                                        Entertainment
                                                        L.P. and
                                                        Warner Bros.
                                                        Entertainment,
                                                        Inc. v. FTC
                                                        Communications,
                                                        Inc.


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


2(d)            Refusal                                 "LBL"
                Affirmed                                (and rectangle
                as to all                               design)
                four cited                              [life insurance
                registrations                           services, namely,
                                                        administering
                                                        both individual
                                                        and group annuity
                                                        insurance
                                                        products,
                                                        including single
                                                        premium deferred
                                                        annuities, single
                                                        premium immediate
                                                        annuities,
                                                        flexible premium
                                                        deferred annuities
                                                        and multi-year
                                                        guaranteed
                                                        annuities, and
                                                        providing third
                                                        party administrative
                                                        services for term
                                                        life insurance
                                                        policies]


2(d)            Opposition      "ROAD RUNNER"           "FTC ROADRUNNER"
                Sustained       [entertainment          [in Class 9:
                as to both      services and a          electrical and
                classes         wide variety of         scientific
                                licensed                apparatus, namely,
                                collateral products     a pager;
                                and services,           in Class 38:
                                including               telecommunications,
                                Internet access         namely, a paging
                                services]               service]


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


4 cited                                         No
registrations,
all owned by the
same entity:
"THE LBL GROUP,"
"LBL"
(and design),
and "LBL"
[all three marks
for a variety of
services, including
insurance
underwriting
services in the
field of group,
individual, and
voluntary benefits
plans, namely,
medical, dental,
vision, life,
disability, cancer
and long term
care];
"THE LBL GROUP"
[indicating
membership in an
association of
insurance and
financial services
providers]


                                                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