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

 			   March 30 - April 3, 1998


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

3-4   		EX   		75/023,672   		HMV Group Ltd.   

3-4   		OPP   		100,296   		Taylor Made Golf
							Co., Inc. v. R & M
							Golf Co.

3-5   		EX   		74/418,140      	Nellcor Puritan
							Bennett Inc.   

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

2(e)(4)   	Refusal					"DILLONS"
		Affirmed				[retail music, 
      							video, computer, 
							magazine, book and 
							stationery store
							services] 

2(d)        	Opposition	"BUBBLE"		"BALLOON SHAFT"
		Dismissed  	[golf clubs and 	[golf shafts and 
 				golf club shafts] 	golf clubs] 

de jure     	Refusal					knob configuration
fuctionality;	Affirmed				[medical instru-
whether the	(but only on 				ments, namely, 
configuration  	the ground of 				pulse oximeters]  
applicant 	lack of dis-
seeks to	tinctiveness)     
register as a
trademark is
inherently
distinctive 
or has
acquired
distictive-
ness through 
use in 
commerce, 
under 
Section 2(f) 

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

						No

						No

						No

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

