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SERIAL NO: 76/568330
APPLICANT: Charlie Brewer's Slider Company, Inc.
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Serial Number 76/568330
The assigned examining attorney has reviewed the application and determined the following:
The examining attorney has searched the Office records and has found no similar registered or pending mark which would bar registration under Trademark Act Section 2(d), 15 U.S.C. §1052(d). TMEP §704.02.
The applicant must disclaim the descriptive wording "Slider" apart from the mark as shown. Trademark Act Section 6, 15 U.S.C. Section 1056; TMEP sections 1213 and 1213.02(a). The wording is merely descriptive of a characteristic and feature of the goods. The examining attorney encloses articles from the LEXIS-NEXIS® general news databases indicating that the term “slider” is commonly used in the field of fishing to describe lures, hooks and tackle.
The Office can require an applicant to disclaim exclusive rights to an unregistrable part of a mark, rather than refuse registration of the entire mark. Trademark Act Section 6(a), 15 U.S.C. §1056(a). Under Trademark Act Section 2(e), 15 U.S.C. §1052(e), the Office can refuse registration of the entire mark where it is determined that the entire mark is merely descriptive, deceptively misdescriptive, or primarily geographically descriptive of the goods. Thus, the Office may require the disclaimer of a portion of a mark which, when used in connection with the goods or services, is merely descriptive, deceptively misdescriptive, primarily geographically descriptive, or otherwise unregistrable (e.g., generic). TMEP §1213.03(a). If an applicant does not comply with a disclaimer requirement, the Office may refuse registration of the entire mark. TMEP §1213.01(b).
A “disclaimer” is thus a written statement that an applicant adds to the application record that states that applicant does not have exclusive rights, separate and apart from the entire mark, to particular wording and/or to a design aspect. The appearance of the applied-for mark does not change.
The computerized printing format for the Trademark Official Gazette requires a standard form for a disclaimer. TMEP §1213.08(a)(i). A properly worded disclaimer should read as follows:
No claim is made to the exclusive right to use SLIDER apart from the mark as shown.
See In re Owatonna Tool Co., 231 USPQ 493 (Comm’r Pats. 1983).
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Detroit Free Press
July 15, 2004, Thursday
SECTION: SPORTS
KR-ACC-NO: K6567
LENGTH: 925 words
HEADLINE: Ludington tournament offers plenty of cash for fish
BYLINE: By Eric Sharp
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LUDINGTON, Mich. _ This is the way to wrap things up.
As True Blue II idles slowly toward the harbor under the hands of skipper Denny Blue of Onekama, son Denny Jr. of Lansing lifts a downrigger rod out of the holder, gives it a jerk to pop the rubber band and starts reeling in the line.
"I've got a fish on," he says. "It's a small one, but everything helps."
As the line comes to the surface, we see he has two fish, one on the main line and another on a slider. And while these one- and three-pound salmon won't help much in the weight category, they are worth 10 points each under the tournament rules.
As soon as the fish are in the box, Denny Sr. pushes the throttle forward and the 31-foot Rampage comes up on plane and roars toward the barn. A couple of miles from the pierheads, we can see that most of the other 213 boats entered in the Ludington Gander Mountain Offshore Classic are also racing in to meet the 2 p.m. cut off, a sign that the majority haven't limited out under the tournament rules and have fished until the last possible moment.
Once we are through the pierheads, Blue waves at the mass of boats slowly working their way up to the weigh-in dock and says, "This is the biggest tournament we've had yet on Lake Michigan. Offshore tournaments are really starting to take off here. We're talking to the International Game Fish Association about establishing a freshwater offshore championship on the Great Lakes, like the offshore championship they hold in salt water."
The IGFA is headquartered in Dania Beach, Fla., which is south of Ft. Lauderdale.
The Ludington tournament was also one of the richest tournaments to date with $62,000 in cash awards.
Willis Kerridge, who runs Thunderduck Too out of Grand Haven, took the $10,000 first prize in the 59-boat pro division, followed by Mark Veurink's Reel Action (Spring Lake, $6,000) and Tom Jacobs' Originator (Grand Rapids, $3,000).
In the 139-boat amateur division, Ardibob, skippered by Steve Romsek of Belmont ($6,000); Reel Deal, skippered by Jason Forward of Ada ($4,000), and Storm Chaser, skippered by Jeff Rhein of Ludington ($3,000), took the top three spots.
Another 15 boats were entered only in the big fish contest. Ruthless, skippered by Mark Pefley of Manistee, captured $3,000 with a 28.5- pound king salmon .
True Blue II finished 22nd in the pro division, a respectable start for the four anglers who have teamed up to form the Rampage team for Great Lakes events. Another father-and-son unit, George and Chris Peplinski of Onekama, joined the Blues. George Peplinski runs a charter boat called Netminder. (Chris is a hockey goaltender.) The crew totaled 20 fish. The first-day weight was 55 pounds in the two-day event.
The rules were simple _ each pro team could weigh in three limits of salmon (nine) plus three more lake trout, brown trout or steelhead. The boats got 10 points per fish and 10 points per pound.
The day before the tournament, True Blue's crew had hammered the salmon off Big Sable Point a few miles north of Ludington. Apparently, so had everyone else, because about 200 of the 213 boats headed there as soon as the radio called for the 6 a.m. start.
"The conditions are a lot different today," Denny Sr. said after True Blue boated three fish in the first hour, less than half the catch rate of the practice day. "Yesterday, we had a nice overcast and some wind to put a chop on the water. We were catching fish about as fast as we could get lines down. Today, it's clear and sunny, and there's almost no wind."
The rules forbade culling. Anglers had to keep every legal fish they brought aboard, so True Blue's fish box held a 13-inch chinook that looked like a minnow next to eight- to 10- pound salmon and lakers. Each of the pro boats had an observer on board to ensure rules were obeyed.
More than 1,000 anglers took part in this event, one of 13 scheduled for ports on our side of Lake Michigan this summer. The boats ranged from 18-footers that were dropped off trailers each morning to a 55-foot Viking sport fisher that probably would eat up the better part of $2 million.
Next summer the number of Lake Michigan events in Michigan waters is expected to grow to 16, and the advantage of having a pro division is that it allows a group of four to six casual anglers to participate by splitting the cost of a professional charter for a couple of days.
While Blue drove and kept track of our location, the other three anglers put out wire lines, lead core lines and downriggers at different depths and distances. They tried various combinations of flashers and dodgers with flies and "hootchies," rigs that look like schools of small baitfish. They tried different colors and sizes of spoons, and re adjusted dipsy divers to try to find that magical combination of depth, lure and distance.
They also used cut bait, oily herring strips flown in from Washington state where it has been the lure of choice for centuries but is just now gaining popularity in Michigan.
"The cut baits really work," Blue said. "I've been using them a couple of years and I'd say they account for about half of our fish. But I've also wondered about using herring. I think we could probably do just as well by running belly strips cut from some of the natural prey the salmon see in the Great Lakes," like big alewives and bloater chubs.
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Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)
July 8, 2004 Thursday ONE TWO THREE REP EDITION
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. 6C
LENGTH: 831 words
HEADLINE: FISHING FORECAST
BYLINE: TOM HIGGINS - JAQUELINE KNIGHT'S SOLUNAR TABLES
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Hickory, N.C. coast heat up
Lake Hickory and the southern N.C. coast appear to be the hottest fishing locations in the Carolinas.
Big stripers are being caught at Lake Hickory; waters off Ocean Isle are yielding large king mackerel.
Bill Jones of Granite Falls boated a 23-pound, 15-ounce striper at Lake Hickory, and local angler Tim Walker caught a 19-pounder. Both fish were weighed in at 321 Marina.
Jones was baiting with a piece of cut bream, Walker with a live shad.
A family party of three anglers, fishing with a guide, boated seven stripers at Hickory, including two 13-pounders.
It took a 46-pound king mackerel to win the holiday weekend's Jolly Mon tournament, based at Ocean Isle Fishing Center. Three other kings in excess of 40 pounds were checked in, and a 28-pound king was good for only 31st place.
Hottest spots for catching kings are areas known as 30/30 and The Jungle. Waters just south of Little River Inlet are good, too.The Report
1. LAKE NORMAN: Schooling largemouth bass from dawn until about 8 a.m. on topwater lures. Plentiful yellow perch around underwater humps, and in McGuire Nuclear Station hot hole on quarter-ounce spoons. Some crappie in cover 30 feet down on minnows
2. LAKE WYLIE: Largemouth on deep-running crankbaits, plastic lures. Crappie at night on minnows fished under lights. Catfish on chicken livers, mussels.
3. LAKES BADIN, TILLERY, BLEWETT FALLS: Bream on crickets, earthworms. Crappie, mainly at night, on minnows. Catfish on shad, frozen baits.
4. HIGH ROCK LAKE: Mainly bream, crappie on live baits.
5. LAKES HICKORY, RHODHISS: Plentiful small crappie at Rhodhiss on one-inch sliders, Crappie Snack lures trolled just under surface. Larger crappie around deep brush at Hickory on minnows. Crappie at night at Hickory on minnows under floating lights.
6. LAKE JAMES: White bass from dawn until about 8 a.m. in surfacing schools on small spinners, spoons. Bream on crickets, earthworms. Some smallmouth bass off rocky points on shiners.
7. FONTANA LAKE: Trout to 5 pounds at night on crawlers fished 40 feet down right against dam. Smallmouth bass, walleye during past few nights under bright moonlight on lures worked along the shoreline.
8. LAKE WATEREE: Largemouth on deep-running crankbaits and, in late afternoon, on topwater lures. White perch on small lures, minnows. Bream on live baits.
9. LAKE HARTWELL: Largemouth at dawn, dusk on artificial worms, lizards around deep structure. Stripers, hybrids on live herring along river channels. Catfish on cut herring, crawlers, chicken livers.
10. LAKE JOCASSEE: Largemouth in early morning on shiners drift-fished across points, then on deep-running crankbaits. Some trout on spoons trolled 40 to 65 feet deep.
11. LAKE KEOWEE: Largemouth in surfacing schools on variety of plugs, spoons. Crappie 20 to 25 feet deep on minnows around brush, bridge pilings. Catfish on traditional baits.
12. LAKE MURRAY: Stripers on live herring fished 20 to 60 feet down. Also in surfacing schools at dawn and dusk on bucktails, Striper Swiper lures. Catfish on cut herring, crawlers. Largemouth on artificial worms.
13. LAKE THURMOND: Largemouth on deep-running Rebel, Shad Rap lures. Stripers on live herring, large shiners.
14. SANTEE-COOPER RESERVOIR: Lake Marion-Crappie around deep cover, bridge pilings, piers. Scattered stripers on live herring. Some largemouth on artificial worms. Lake Moultrie-Stripers, mainly at night, on live herring fished near powerhouse. Also on trolled Stretch 25 lures. Crappie around man-made fish attractors on jigs, minnows. Bream, shellcrackers on live baits.
15. OUTER BANKS: Limits of dolphin, yellowfin tuna offshore, with increasing numbers of billfish. Good gray trout on the south side of Bonner Bridge at Oregon Inlet. Spanish mackerel, blues, croaker, flounder, pompano, spot, whiting in surf and at piers. Speckled trout in Pamlico Sound, with Ocracoke Island, locations just north of Buxton especially productive. Reds in backwaters near Atlantic Beach/Morehead City, plentiful Spanish, blues around Cape Lookout.
16. SOUTHERN N.C. COAST: Plentiful flounder, quite a few in 5-pound range, in waters near Carolina Beach, including Intracoastal Waterway, Snow's Cut. Spanish mackerel, blues, croaker, whiting at Wrightsville Beach-area piers. Flounder, pompano, speckled trout at piers from Oak Island southward. Dolphin, king mackerel offshore.
17. S.C. COAST: Flounder to 8 pounds, blues, pompano, sheepshead, whiting at Grand Strand piers. Flounder, trout in Cherry Grove, Murrells Inlets on live baits. Reds, sheepshead at Little River, Murrells Inlet, Winyah Bay jetties. Reds, trout in tidal creeks around Charleston. Tarpon in Bulls Bay. Dolphin, king mackerel, billfish offshore.
Solunar Table
Major (Maj.) periods, best times to hunt and fish, begin at the times shown and last one to two hours. Minor (Min.) periods, second-best times to hunt or fish, are somewhat shorter:
NOTES: Graphic 'Fishing Forecast Map' not in database; please see microfilm.
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Copyright 2003 The Columbian Publishing Co.
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA.)
April 3, 2003, Thursday
SECTION: Special; Pg. f1
LENGTH: 1872 words
HEADLINE: Outdoors Fishing/Hiking 2003: Kings of the Columbia; Anglers by the thousands will jam the river from Astoria to Bonneville Dam this month in a frenzied pursuit of spring chinook salmon
BYLINE: ALLEN THOMAS, Columbian staff writer
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The flotilla of fishing boats numbers in the hundreds and it's building at Cathlamet, Marker 72, Sand Island, St. Helens, Bachelor Island, Caterpillar Island and Davis Bar.
For landlocked anglers, Frenchmen's Bar, Sauvie Island, Woodland Bar and Kalama will be home-away-from-home in the coming days and weeks.
Fueling all this zeal are Columbia River spring chinook -- 10 to 30 pounds of fight fresh from the ocean and, arguably, the finest eating fish in the world.
A big run of 109,800 spring chinook is predicted to enter the Columbia destined for Oregon's Willamette River. A very healthy return of 145,400 spring salmon will pass through Southwest Washington to waters upstream of Bonneville Dam.
Lesser runs are headed for the Cowlitz, Kalama, Lewis and Sandy rivers.
Two years ago, upper Columbia and Snake spring chinook salmon made a turn-around that exceeded what most fishery experts thought possible.
In a rare convergence of exceptional streamflows for downstream juveniles in the late 1990s and highly productive Pacific Ocean conditions on the rebound from El Nino, a whopping 417,000 spring chinook returned.
In 1995, the spring run at Bonneville Dam was just 10,200. On April 18, 2001, the daily count alone at Bonneville was 27,020 spring chinook.
Sport fishing was allowed in April for the first time since 1977. A fishery dormant for two decades exploded back to life. Anglers responded with 123,000,fishing trips in April 2001. Boat ramps were jammed.
Veteran anglers who had spent 20-plus Aprils cooped up in the Willamette River, Wind River or Drano Lake were back on the lower Columbia and mentoring a new generation of spring chinook enthusiasts.
Enough with the history.
The salmon are here now. April is spring chinook month, when the peak of the run moves through the lower Columbia.
Here are tips for newcomers considering joining the angling armada:
Boat or bank
A boat definitely helps but it isn't required, as thousands fish off sandbars.
Bank fishermen had exceptional catches two years ago along the Washington side of the Columbia just downstream of Bonneville Dam. Fishing started off well in early March off the shore at Bonneville this year too.
Frenchmen's Bar, just downstream from Vancouver and accessible through a county park, is another bank-angling spot.
A $30,000, 20-foot boat isn't necessary, but they are nice with their power and protection from the weather. Plenty of anglers use 12- to 15-foot boats propelled by 10- to 30-horsepower outboard engines.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Shillapoo boat ramp west of Vancouver is an ideal place to launch a small boat. Anglers motor downstream around Caterpillar Island, then anchor or troll off the island or Frenchmen's Bar. The Columbia generally is calm enough that small boats can cross and troll or anchor off Oregon's Sauvie Island too.
Plenty of small boats launch at Ridgefield Marina and make the short jaunt down Lake River to the mouth of the Lewis River and across the Columbia to the mouth of Multnomah Channel on the Oregon side. Along Bachelor Island is another good spot.
Smaller boaters launch at the Port of Camas-Washougal ramp and fish the downstream tip of Reed Island, although river conditions get choppy more often than downstream. The mouth of the Sandy River is another angling destination close to Camas, as is the upper end of Government Island.
Small or inexperienced boaters want to stay away from the fast water between Beacon Rock and the fishing deadline at Bonneville Dam. West winds working against a west-flowing river can make for a nasty chop on the water. Anchoring in the big water below Bonneville is not for the novice.
Gear to use
Look for a 7 1/2- to 8 1/2-foot rod which says it is good for use with 15- to 25-pound-test line.
For certain methods of fishing, a lighter rod is fine. But if you're anchored, and need eight ounces of weight to keep your lure or bait on the bottom, those whimpy rods are a handicap.
Light rods also have a downside when it comes time to set the hook when you're using herring -- traditionally the best of spring salmon baits.
Get a good quality level-wind reel and load it with 25-pound-test line. There are lots of good reels on the market. A Quantum 1420 or an Ambassadeur 6500 are starting points.
Baits
Books are written on this topic alone.
Herring are the tried-and-true standard of the river. There are many other lures, and adaptation of lures and baits. But watch the veteran anglers on the lower Columbia and notice how many fish predominantly with herring.
Herring can be trolled or fished while at anchor. They can be fished whole or plug-cut. If plug-cut, the guts can be left in or out. They can be toughened by soaking in rock salt and scented in a variety of ways.
Plug cutting involving slicing the head off the herring. Inexpensive plug-cutting devices can be bought that help get the angle and the bevel right.
"The important thing about a plug cutter is it's going to give you consistency in your cut," said Chris Vertopoulous, a local fishing guide.
He takes the guts out of his plug-cut herring.
"I lay my knife on it and pull the bait away and you can pull all those guts out so you have that open cavity," Vertopoulous said. "I like to make a little slit from the anal hole up to the ventral fins, then take my knife and scrape that backbone. That opens that membrane and a lot of blood comes out. Water flows into that cavity and it's going to come out that opening you created and blow a lot of scent into the water. That's why I like to fish plug-cut versus whole bait."
He fishes a herring 20 to 30 minutes before putting on fresh bait.
Herring come in different sizes, differentiated by the color of the label.
Blue label herring are larger than green label, which are larger than red label.
"Everybody likes green label," Vertopoulous said. "It's a real key size."
Matching your hook size to the size of the herring also is important.
Vertopoulous suggests using 5/0 to 6/0 hooks for blue label herring, 4/0 to 5/0 for green label and 2/0 to 4/0 for red label.
Some days, the herring size depends on what the bait shops have available.
Double hooks are used when rigging a herring and can be bought pre-tied at sporting goods stores.
Herring leaders can be bought with either both hooks tied fixed, or with the top hook able to slide. The sliding setup is often easier for a newcomer.
Everyone also has their own ideas on length of leader and dropper line.
Vertopoulous suggested a 5- to 6-foot leader and a 30-inch dropper line as a starting point.
"If you're just fishing a straight leader to your herring make sure you split that leader with either a ball-bearing swivel or a bead chain swivel," he said. "That herring is spinning constantly. If you're not able to account for that spin, you're going to have a twisted up mess."
Spreader bars or sliders (both available at tackle stores) are used to attach the sinker.
Terry Mulkey, a local fishing guide, said he much prefers a slider.
If a sinker on a slider gets tangled in the net while trying to land a fish, there is much less chance of losing the salmon, he said.
Vertopoulous suggests anglers use a "Fish Flash," an attachment popular for fall salmon fishing particularly at Buoy 10 at the mouth of the Columbia River.
"These things work great for springers as well as fall fish," he said. "I use them a lot. They bring fish to the bait, bring fish to the boat. They see this thing flashing and they are curious."
His favorite colors of Fish Flash in the spring include silver, silver-chartreuse and solid green. When using a Fish Flash, shorter the leader to about 36 inches, he added.
Lures
There are plenty of lures to outwit a spring chinook without messing with bait.
A Spin N Glo winged bobber is a classic spring chinook lure, and generally the choice of bank fishermen.
They come in a plethora of colors and sizes. Red, pink, chartreuse and silver -- or, likely, some combination -- are the most popular colors. A spring chinook is a big fish, so use a size 0 or larger.
Spin N Glos are cast from shore, trolled behind boats or fished at anchor. Some sportsmen sweeten them with a sand shrimp.
A Kwikfish lure in the K14 to K16 sizes is popular too. For spring chinook, most anglers put a "sardine wrap" on a Kwikfish.
A sardine wrap involves cutting a rectangular piece of meat from a bait sardine, and attaching it to the underside of the Kwikfish. The skin of the sardine goes against the lure. Tiny rubber bands are available at sporting good stores to hold the wrap against the lure, or special thread works too.
Sardines are oily and their smell attracts chinook. Some fishermen add scents to the wrap or spray it with WD-40.
"When you fillet that off you want a nice thin piece, you don't want a heavy piece," said Terry Mulkey, a local fishing guide. "The best part of this fillet is the tail, it's got most of the fat in it."
Sardine wraps should be changed hourly, Mulkey said.
"Bring it in after a half hour, re-scent it, put it out, fish a half hour and then rebait it," Mulkey said. "Don't be skimpy with these fillets."
Spinners are a staple spring chinook offering.
There are a zillion choices of spinners. Remember to get ones that are large and in the same bright or shiny colors as used for Spin N Glos.
Perhaps the easiest way to fish for spring chinook is to clip a Magnum size Wiggle Wart or Brad's Wiggler on to snap, pull 20 or so arm's lengths of line out and troll.
This is standard for spring chinook at the mouth of the Wind River and at Drano Lake in Skamania County.
Miscellaneous tips
* Spring chinook travel about 15 to 20 feet deep. Lures should be fished slightly above the salmon. Many trollers think about 12 feet is just right.
* Troll slowly. Try for the slowest speed at which a spinner blade will make regular, complete revolutions. Troll in s-shaped curves.
* Don't just troll upstream. Trolling downstream with herring is the preferred method of many a good spring chinook angler.
* Consider trolling if it's an incoming tide, then anchoring on the outgoing tide. If the flows are low in the Columbia, a strong tidal push can just about stop the current at high tide. Baits and lures made to fish in current don't work in slack water.
* Many anglers switch from treble hooks to single siwash-style hooks on Kwikfish, Wiggle Warts and other lures.
They will use a swivel or bead chain to attach the siwash hook to the lure.
It is believed the single siwash hooks on a swivel are more difficult for a hooked salmon or steelhead to tear out of its mouth.
Be patient
The good thing about spring chinook is that they will bite throughout the day, not just at daybreak. Tide changes often spark a bite.
Patience is importance when fishing for spring salmon.
There's no alternative to putting in your time on the water, said Karl Anderson of Vancouver, a 50-year veteran of lower Columbia spring chinook fishing.
"Sooner or later there's going to be a hot bite," said Anderson. "You've got to be out there when it happens."
GRAPHIC: The trip to Bonneville Dam was well worth the drive for these Seattle anglers. Photos by JEREMIAH COUGHLAN/The Columbian
Thousands of anglers ply the waters of Multnomah Channel, on the west side of Sauvie Island, for spring chinook salmon. * A miter box is used to provide the proper angle and bevel so a plug-cut herring gets the correct roll to entice a chinook. * A rectangular piece of sardine is wrapped on the under side of a Kwikfish lure to add scent to the lure.
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