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Joel's ideas were included in NYLJ's Personal Relationship Building Is the Key to 2022 Marketing Initiatives

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“When people want clean water, they reach for plastic bottles,” says CrazyCap CEO Rakesh Guduru. “It’s bad for your health and the environment.” For those who want a more sustainable way to hydrate on the go, Guduru created a bottle cap that uses UVC light to sanitize water in just 60 seconds. The device has two modes, one to purify water from taps or public fountains, the other for...

Our client sued to defend Trade Dress in District Court of New Jersey. 

Google and Oracle will soon argue before the Supreme Court over the scope of copyright protection in an important area of software development. Oracle sued Google for its use of Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in the Android operating system. APIs are computer code that allow different software programs to communicate with each other.

Over 50 external parties filed amicus briefs telling the Supreme Court how Google v. Oracle will affect them.

April 23, 2020 – Today in Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc. the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision holding willfulness is not a threshold requirement before a plaintiff can obtain an award of profits in a trademark infringement action.

This week we obtained, for a firm client, a successful result in a PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeals Board) Decision. 

Lead counsel representing defendant, manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies, against claims of trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, false advertising...

Our office has moved locations. For the last year, we’ve been working with a team of architects and workplace designers to create and deliver

Weiss & Arons LLP successfully prosecuted a patent application for Complete Entertainment Resources ("CER") (U.S Patent No. 9,466,035). After being hit with an anti-trust suit by CER, Live Nation retaliated with a Post Grant Review (PGR) of the CER patent.  But the PTAB denied Live Nation's bid, because the examiner rejected very similar arguments during the prosecution of the CER...

Weiss & Arons’ partner Abigail Rubinstein Esq. prevailed in an appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board after refusal of four trademark registrations on the basis of descriptiveness. The Examining Attorney withdrew refusals of two of the marks after considering Weiss & Arons’ appeal briefs. The Board agreed with our arguments that the Examiner’s evidence did not support a...

Weiss & Arons’ partner Abigail Rubinstein Esq. filed separate claims against two Brooklyn based stores for infringing 7-Eleven Inc.’s famous Trademark, triggering headlines in the New York and legal press.

Weiss & Arons, LLP, prosecuted a patent application for Endoheart AG's transapical TAVI valve replacement method, and obtained U.S. Patent No. 8,182,530, which Endoheart AG then asserted against Edwards Lifesciences in the Federal District Court for the District of Delaware.  Defendant Edwards Lifesciences filed two requests for Inter Partes Review in the U.S. Patent and Trademark...

Blueprint Studio Trends, Inc. v. Luxe Event Rentals LLC et al., 2015 WL 6440698 (C.D.C.W.D. 2015).

Virco Mfg. Co v. Hertz Furniture Systems, LLC et al., 2013 WL 1951854 (C.D. Ca. 2013).

Nivel Parts and Manufacturing Company, LLC et al v. IPC Industries, Inc., 2013 WL 154934 (M.D.Fla. 2013).

VS America, Inc. v. National Public Seating, Corp. 2011 WL 468347 (W.D.N.C. 2011).