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The Connecticut Bar Foundation (CBF) recently named Andy Corea as a James W. Cooper Fellow. The Connecticut Bar Foundation works to ensure that the state’s legal system is available to all, regardless of power or resources. The Foundation supports legal services that protect the interests of those who cannot afford […]

SSJR Successful Defeating Patent Preliminary Injunction 6 May 2016 SSJR partners Stephen McNamara and Benjamin C. White, with associate Steven S. Zimowski, successfully obtained a denial of a patent plaintiff’s attempt to obtain a preliminary injunction preventing our client from selling its product. SSJR’s briefing presented a comprehensive defense focused […]

Richard Basile’s article regarding obtaining European patents for inventions in the field of pharmaceutical inhalation products was published as the lead article in the February 2016 issue of Inhalation magazine. The article entitled “Avoiding pitfalls obtaining inhalation patents at the European Patent Office” reviewed recent Board of Appeal decisions related […]

SSJR successfully defeated the Applicant’s attempt to amend its application during the course of an opposition and added claims for fraud on the Trademark Office and failure to meet statutory filing requirements. The Board noted that SSJR’s brief correctly pointed out deficiencies in the Applicant’s filing and confirmed that the […]

Andy Corea’s article regarding Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings was published in the February 2016 issue of the ITMA Review, the journal of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA). For more information on ITMA, please visit http://www.itma.org.uk/