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ESTTA Tracking number: ESTTA274854
Filing date: 03/27/2009
IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

Petition for Cancellation

Notice is hereby given that the following party requests to cancel indicated registration.

Petitioner Information
Name BBK Tobacco & Foods, LLP
Entity Limited Liability Partnership Citizenship Arizona
Address 3315 W. Buckeye Rd., Ste. B
Phoenix, AZ 85009
UNITED STATES

Attorney Edward L. Earle

information HBI International Legal Department
3315 W. Buckeye Rd., Ste. B
Phoenix, AZ 85009
UNITED STATES
marks@hbiinternational.com Phone:(602) 955-6688

Registration Subject to Cancellation

Registration No 3510830 Registration date 10/07/2008
Registrant Swedish Match Industries AB
P.O. Box 84 Västra Drottningvägen 15
SE-522 22 Tidaholm,
SWEDEN

Goods/Services Subject to Cancellation

Class 034. First Use: 1999/12/31 First Use In Commerce: 2007/07/10
All goods and services in the class are cancelled, namely: matches

Grounds for Cancellation

Abandonment Trademark Act section 14

Attachments Petition for Cancellation.pdf ( 3 pages )(10701 bytes )

Certificate of Service
The undersigned hereby certifies that a copy of this paper has been served upon all parties, at their address
record by First Class Mail on this date.

Signature /Edward L. Earle/

Name Edward L. Earle
Date 03/27/2009
 IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE TRADEMARK TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD

____________________________________

BBK Tobacco & Foods, LLP

Petitioner, Cancellation No. _______________

v.
In the matter of Registration No.
Swedish Match Industries AB, 3,510,830 (Registered 10/07/2008)

Respondent.
____________________________________

PETITION FOR CANCELLATION

BBK Tobacco & Foods, LLP, an Arizona limited liability partnership, having a
principal place of business in Phoenix, Arizona (“Petitioner”), believes and alleges that it
is or will be damaged by U.S. Registration No. 3,510,830 and hereby petitions to cancel
the same.

As grounds for cancellation, Petitioner alleges:

1. Upon information and belief, Respondent Swedish Match Industries AB

(“Respondent”) is the owner of U.S. Registration No. 3,510,830 for matches
(“Respondent’s Goods”) in International Class 34.

2. On November 10, 2008, Petitioner filed U.S. Trademark Application

(Serial No. 77/611,451) for the mark “SWAN” for the following goods and services:
cigarette filters, cigarette paper, cigarette papers, cigarette rolling machines, cigarette
rolling papers, cigarette tubes, cigarette-rolling machines, machines allowing smokers to
make cigarettes by themselves, pocket apparatus for rolling cigarettes, pocket apparatus
for self-rolling cigarettes, pocket devices for self-rolling of cigarettes, pocket machines
for rolling cigarettes and pocket-size cigarette rolling machines.

3. Upon information and belief, Respondent is no longer using the mark

“‘THE ORIGINAL’ SWAN VESTAS MADE TO THE HIGHEST QUALITY SINCE
1883” as shown in U.S. Registration No. 3,510,830 and therefore has abandoned the
mark within the meaning of Section 14 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1064(3).

4. As a consequence, Respondent’s Registration No. 3,510,830 is to

Petitioner’s damage.
 WHEREFORE, Petitioner requests that this cancellation petition be granted, and
that the above-identified registration of Respondent, Registration No. 3,510,830, be
cancelled.

Respectfully submitted,

/Edward L. Earle/
Date: March 27, 2009 _________________________
Edward L. Earle
BBK Tobacco & Foods, LLP
3315 W. Buckeye Rd., Ste. B
Phoenix, AZ 85009
(602) 955-6688 (telephone)
(602) 955-3330 (facsimile)

ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER

 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

This is to certify that on the 27th day of March, 2009 a true and correct copy of the
above and foregoing document, PETITION FOR CANCELLATION, was served on
Respondent’s attorney and Respondent via U.S. First Class Mail, postage prepaid,
addressed as follows:

Swedish Match Industries AB

P.O. Box 84 Västra Drottningvägen 15
SE-522 22 Tidaholm
Sweden

Ms. Adrienne L. White, Esq.

WRB-IP LLP
1217 King Street
Alexandrai, VA 22314-2926

______/Edward L. Earle/_______
Edward L. Earle