The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce that the 2018 CIPLA Lobster Bake and Annual Meeting will be held on June 13, 2018 at Penfield Pavilion II (Jacky Durrell Pavilion) on Penfield beach in Fairfield, CT. Directions to Penfield Beach can be found here. The Lobster Bake will also serve as CIPLA’s […]
The Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA) is pleased to announce its first meeting in the 2018-2019 schedule. We are welcoming Matthew Hutman of Serco Inc. Serco is the classification contractor to the USPTO and has classified over 3.9 million newly filed utility patent applications. Mr Hutman will speak on “USPTO Art Unit Determinations” and […]
Maja Szumarska of Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP The Lanham Act authorizes courts to issue ex parte orders directing the seizure of counterfeit goods. By enacting this law, Congress recognized that, absent such ex parte relief, willful counterfeiters would likely destroy or transfer counterfeit merchandise and business records upon the filing of a lawsuit. Congress […]