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SSJR has successfully obtained a dismissal of an opposition filed by a cyber-squatter against a trademark application filed by its client The ShoeMart, Inc. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board granted SSJR’s motion to dismiss the opposition with prejudice.

SSJR was recently awarded the NameProtect® 2007 Trademark Insider® Award as the #1 law firm for U.S. Trademark filing in the Connecticut area. The award is given by NameProtect® in recognition of substantial achievement in the Trademark industry and is based on analysis of public trademark filings data compiled by […]

Firm Member Stephen McNamara is representing the long established charitable organization, Greenwich-based Flag of Honor Fund Inc., in a trademark infringement lawsuit brought against another group using their “Flag of Honor” trademark. The Greenwich organization has sold or given away more than 250,000 of the tapestries, which are American flags […]

SSJR’s attorneys obtained a reversal of a rejection of all claims as obvious in a patent application directed to a vehicle brake system. The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences found that the combination of prior art relied on by the patent examiner would not result in a device with […]

SSJR is pleased to announce that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a district court’s rulings of noninfringement and invalidity concerning U.S. Patent No. 5,740,801, which relates to a system for storing and displaying images during a medical procedure. A Federal District Court in West Virginia […]