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SSJR attorneys successfully defended a Motion to Dismiss filed with the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”), maintaining our client’s claim of prior use of the trademark JW. SSJR’s client Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (“Watch Tower”), which has been using its JW mark since as […]

The U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) issued a decision granting SSJR’s opposition against the trademark GO PRO OR GO HOME for various forms of apparel. SSJR’s client in this case is a sole proprietor who owns a prior registration for the mark GO PRO. The Board agreed with […]

SSJR Member Stephen P. McNamara was selected as a 2014 Connecticut Super Lawyer in the field of Intellectual Property by Super Lawyers magazine. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer annually since 2008.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted SSJR’s motion on behalf of its client, Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc. (“KSEA”), to dismiss and strike all of the defendants’ defenses and counterclaims based on an agreement that terminated a previous case between the parties. In 2012, Stryker Corp. […]

SSJR litigators successfully defeated claims of an alleged patent prosecution bar violation on behalf of its client, Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc. (“KSEA”). SSJR represents KSEA in a patent infringement case against Stryker Corp. and Stryker Communications, Inc. (“Stryker”) currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of […]