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SSJR Partner Benjamin Lehberger was elected President of the Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (“CIPLA”) at the association’s annual meeting on June 1, 2016. Mr. Lehberger is the eleventh SSJR attorney to serve as President of CIPLA. Andy Corea was re-elected to the Board of Governors and Benjamin White was […]

SSJR attorneys successfully overcome a rejection under Alice v. CLS Bank and 35 U.S.C. § 101 directed to software entitled: “Multi Layered Webpage Tool,” which was published under U.S. Pat. Pub. No. US-2011-0040633. Notably, the Alice rejection was issued after a successful appeal by SSJR on prior art grounds. In […]

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 […]