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

				July 6-10, 1998


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

7-8             EX              75/017,413   		Lancer Ortho-
							dontics, Inc. 

7-8             OPP             101,856   		General Electric  
							Co. v. Asha
							Records, Inc. 

7-8             EX              74/693,416     		Volk Art, Inc.
   
7-8             EX              74/635,846   		Raceway Lube Inc.   

7-8             EX              74/241,020              Fonovisa, Inc.   

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

2(d)   		Refusal					IN ADVANCE and
		reversed				design
      							[dental abrasives
							and polishes]

2(d)      	Opposition	design of dog with	ASHA RECORDS and
		sustained  	phonograph player	fanciful rabbit 
  				[sound recordings 	design with phono-
				and various elec-	graph player
				tronic products]   	[pre-recorded 
							tapes, phonograph 
							records and com-
							pact discs 
							featuring music] 

2(a) (decep- 	Refusals				BLANC DE CHINE
tive) and 	affirmed 				[porcelain, name- 
2(e)(1)							ly, lamp bases, 
[deceptively						pots and fig-
misdescrip-    					        urines]
tive]

2(d)     	Refusal					RACEWAY LUBE
		affirmed				[vehicle lubrica-
           						tion and oil 
							change services]  

2(d)   		Refusal					MELODY and design
		reversed				[cassette tapes, 
      							compact discs and 
							phonograph records
							bearing musical
							sound recordings 
							in the Spanish 
							language]   

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

ADVANCE						No
[dental restorative
materials]   

						No

						No

RACEWAY						No
[motor oil]

The word "MELODY" 				No
in Russian Cyrillic
[phonograph records,
audio cassettes and
compact discs, all for
musical recordings]

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





































 

























 


  







 










