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This article was originally published in the July-August edition of the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association (GBBA) News Brief In this summer’s heat, if reaching for a cool drink stimulates a thirst for knowledge about how disputes over names for certain soft drinks should be resolved, the recent decision by the […]

The global hair coloring product market is projected to grow into a 200 billion-dollar industry by 2025. Coty reported in 2017 that more than half of all women color their hair regularly. For example, these figures have reached 62% in the United States, 67% in the United Kingdom, 69% in […]

Over the last decade, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) have emerged as a highly promising new class of biopharmaceuticals. By taking advantage of the specificity of monoclonal antibodies and the potency of small-molecule chemotherapy drugs, ADCs have proven to provide a highly effective combination – particularly in the oncology space,. The recent […]

This article was originally published in the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association’s News Brief, Click Here to download Dur-A-Flex, Inc., based in East Hartford, is preparing for trial on a trade secret misappropriation case in May 2018, in Hartford Superior Court (HHD-CV14-6049281-S).  In January, Dur-A-Flex filed a Motion to Seal, asking the […]

On June 20, 2018, the Federal Circuit decided against the soft drink giant The Coca-Cola Company in their long-standing battle with Royal Crown Cola Company and Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc.  These parties had opposed Coca-Cola’s registration of the “Zero” trademark, for various Coca-Cola products (Click Here for more details). In 2016 […]

In April, the USPTO published a memorandum that revises procedures set forth in MPEP §2106.05. The memorandum was issued in response to the Federal Circuit’s decision in Berkheimer v. HP Inc. Now that the Federal Circuit denied the request for en banc rehearing of the decision, we thought it would […]

It seems like only yesterday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued U.S. Pat. No. 9,000,000 for a “windshield washer conditioner” that collects and conditions rainwater or dew from a windshield for use as washer fluid.  And now we’ve surpassed 10,000,000!  If patents were Wonka Bars, the […]

Stone Basket Innovations (SBI) sued Cook Medical LLC (Cook) for infringement of its patent, U.S. Patent No. 6,551,327 (‘327 Patent) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.[1]  Subsequently, the case was transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (Southern District).[2]  The […]

“Your hair is your crowning glory” is an often-quoted phrase with biblical roots.1Perhaps more importantly, one’s hair is a visible barometer of one’s health and age. Hair care products are also big business. The global hair care market reached $85.5 billion in annual sales in 2017. This figure is expected […]

Michael Dilworth, Managing Partner at Dilworth IP, presented a talk on Intellectual Property basics for the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (CITY) on Wednesday June 13th.  Tsai CITY is a creative hub of Yale University that unites students, faculty and alumni across disciplines in order to cultivate innovation. […]