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On December 14, 2018, St. Onge IP team of Gene Winter and AnneMarie Provino successfully obtained a Decision sustaining an opposition in Hong Kong on behalf of its client Latex Foam International, Inc. and its TALALAY GLOBAL trademark against an application for .  The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative […]

St. Onge IP attorneys Stephen P. McNamara and Tatyana Voloshchuk successfully obtained a Decision sustaining an opposition on behalf of its client Selective Insurance Group, Inc. and its XSELERATE trademark against an application for XCELERATE for a CRM software product.  After a full trial proceeding before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, the […]

SSJR was successful in opposing registration of the mark BILLBOARDYEARBOOK OF CHINA on behalf of its client Prometheus Global Media LLC, owner of the trademarks for BILLBOARD magazine. The Chinese Trademark Review and Appeal Board (“TRAB”) sustained the opposition in light of the Opposer’s prior rights to BILLBOARD in China. The TRAB agreed with Opposer’s arguments that the goods were sufficiently similar […]

SSJR successfully obtained transfer of the domain registration karlstorz.co in a UDRP domain name arbitration proceeding on behalf of its client Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG. (“Karl Storz”) The registrant argued against the transfer on the basis that it intended to make fair use of the domain to post stories about a […]

Navigating intellectual property laws in China continues to be a challenge; however, SSJR recently won its appeal against the refusal to register the mark FMS on behalf of its client Friction Materials Standards Institute, Inc. The initial examiner rejected the application, citing a prior trademark for FMS as an obstacle to registration. SSJR worked with local counsel to […]