United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 10 July 2007

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

                                June 4-8, 2007



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

6-4             EX              76557740                Computer Network
                                                        Systems, Inc.


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

2(d)            Refusal                                 "PRIORITY PARTNERS"
                Affirmed                                [in Class 35:
                in all                                  franchising
                three                                   services, namely,
                classes                                 offering technical
                                                        and administrative
                                                        assistance in the
                                                        establishment and/
                                                        or operation of a
                                                        computer consulting
                                                        and computer
                                                        support business,
                                                        excluding computer
                                                        programming and
                                                        software design;
                                                        distributorships
                                                        in the field of
                                                        computer and
                                                        network related
                                                        hardware and
                                                        software;
                                                        in Class 37:
                                                        installation,
                                                        maintenance, and
                                                        repair of computer
                                                        networks;
                                                        in Class 42:
                                                        computer
                                                        consultation
                                                        excluding computer
                                                        programming and
                                                        software design;
                                                        computer network
                                                        design for others;
                                                        computer systems
                                                        analysis; and other
                                                        services]


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

"PRIORITY"                                      No
[computer
programming, software
design, and data
processing services in
the accounting,
marketing and
management fields]


(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