			  Summary of Final Decisions

				 Issued by the

		       Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

			       July 21-25, 1997


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

7-21            EX              74/584,732              Friends in the West

7-21            EX              74/606,357   		Center for Medical
							Surgical Hair
							Restoration, P.C. 

7-21            EX              74/611,247              Rieke Corp. 

7-22            OPP             94,915   		NBC Fourth Realty  
							Corp. v. 
							T. J. Bailey, Inc. 

7-22            EX              74/451,409    		Brown & Williamson 
							Tobacco Corp. 

7-22            EX              74/570,031              Ameritec Corp.   

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

2(e)(1)   	Refusal					"AFRICAN
		Affirmed				CHILDREN'S
      							CHOIR"
							[charitable fund
							raising services,
							featuring a choir]

2(e)(1)   	Refusal					"LASERGRAFT"
		Affirmed				[surgical hair 
      							transplant ser-
							vices]

whether the     Refusal 				configuration of a
matter asser-	Reversed				closure flange, 
ted for reg-	(but appli-				which is crimped 
istration has 	cation held 				in place within an 
become dis-	60 days for				embossment of a 
tinctive as a 	submission of				metal drum [con-
trademark, 	new drawing 				tainer closures
under 		and new 				installed in metal
Sec. 2(f)   	description 				drums-namely, a
		of mark)     				crimped-in-place
							flange and drum 
							and embossment
							combination]      

2(d)   		Opposition	"T. J. MAXX" et 	"T. J. BAILEY"
		Dismissed  	al. [department 	[men's clothing
 				store services, 	retail store 
				featuring		services]     
				apparel, etc.] 

2(d)    	Refusal					design consisting 
		Reversed				of two concentri-
      							cally-displayed 
							six-sided figures
							[cigarettes] 
  
2(d)   		Refusal					"NIAGARA"
		Reversed				[telecommunica-
      							tions call 
							generators and
							simulators]   

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

						No

						No

						No

						No

design consisting 				No
of two concentri-
cally-displayed 
five-sided figures
(with open      
corners)
[cigarettes]   

"NIAGARA"					No
[electrical transformers]  

(1)EX=EX PARTE APPEAL; OPP=OPPOSITION; CANC=CANCELLATION; CU=CONCURRENT 
USE; (SJ)=SUMMARY JUDGMENT; (R)=REQ. FOR RECONSIDERATION 




