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The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences has reversed all rejections issued by the patent examiner in a patent application directed to a medical instrument for dissecting tissue in a human or animal body. The case has been issued as U.S. Patent No. 7,229,456.

In a day when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office grants upwards of 140,000 utility patents per year, intellectual property rights are more powerful than ever before. Yet, protecting competition and consumer welfare through the antitrust laws is equally important to our country’s economy. Unfortunately, in Schor v. Abbott Laboratories, […]

SSJR is pleased to announce that a Federal District Court in West Virginia has granted SSJR’s summary judgment motions that the claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,740,801, relating to a system for storing and displaying images during a medical procedure, are either not infringed by KSEA or are invalid, thereby […]

SSJR was recently awarded the NameProtect® 2005 Trademark Insider® Award as the #1 law firm for U.S. Trademark filing in the Connecticut area. During INTA’s 128th Annual Meeting in Toronto, SSJR was awarded the NameProtect® 2005 Trademark Insider® Award as the #1 law firm for U.S. Trademark filing in the […]

SSJR is pleased to announce that it has settled a copyright infringement case on behalf of Clinton Decoys. The case, filed in District Court in Iowa, alleged that Defendants Nordic Group and Flambeau willfully infringed four of Clinton Decoys’ copyrights for goose decoy sculptures. The parties have resolved the litigation […]