United States Patent and Trademark Office OG Notices: 07 August 2007
Summary of Final Decisions Issued by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
July 2-6, 2007
Date Type of Proceeding
Issued Case (1) or App'n No. Party/Parties
7-03 EX 78572313 Sigma
and Alimentos,
78572318 S.A. de C.V.
7-05 EX 76635885 The Triangle
Companies, LLC
Opposer's/ Applicant's/
Petitioner's Respondent's
TTAB Mark and Mark and
Issue Decision Goods/Services Goods/Services
2(d) Refusal "SOL"
Affirmed (stylized) and
in both "SOL LIGHT"
cases (stylized)
[soy based
beverages not being
milk substitutes]
2(d) Refusal "TRIANGLE
Affirmed PROPERTIES"
as to [real estate
both cited brokerage]
registrations
Mark and Citable as
Goods Cited by Precedent
Examining Atty. of TTAB
"SOL" No
(stylized)
[spring water]
2 cited No
registrations
both owned by
the same entity:
"TRIANGLE COMMUNITIES"
[apartment leasing and
apartment complex
management for others;
various entertainment
services] and
"TRIANGLE COMMUNITIES
APARTMENT LOCATOR"
[apartment locating
services for others]
(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