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SSJR is pleased to report a successful settlement of a Hatch-Waxman patent infringement case for its clients Lupin Ltd. and Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc (“Lupin”). The case was initiated in July 2011 by Alcon Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Alcon Research, Ltd. (“Alcon”) in the United States District Court for the District of […]

“During the general government shutdown that began October 1, 2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office will remain open, using prior year reserve fee collections to operate as usual for approximately four weeks. We continue to assess our fee collections compared to our operating requirements to determine how long […]

SSJR client Composite Ideas, LLC has been issued the third patent in its patent family relating to distributed computing systems. The claims are directed to command invocation software in which commands are created and configured before being distributed for invocation. The technology is useful for applications such as file transfer […]

The District Court of Massachusetts recently granted SSJR’s Motion for Leave to file an Amended Third-Party Complaint in a complicated contract dispute that SSJR is defending for its client, ChemWerth. SSJR asked for leave to file an amended third-party complaint in response to a motion to dismiss by the third-party. […]

SSJR obtained approval for the trademark AMERICAN ART THERAPY ASSOCIATION (with design) after appealing to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The USPTO withdrew the refusal to register and approved the mark for publication after consideration of SSJR’s appeal brief. The appeal brief argued that the mark was entitled to […]