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