Intellectual Property

Intellectual property rights rank among the most valuable assets that today’s innovative companies and individuals can possess. Obtaining those rights, putting them to work and protecting them to the fullest extent possible are goals that must be pursued with vigor and vigilance.

Recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, the World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals and the IAM Patent 1000 – the World’s Leading Patent Professionals, CSG’s nationally acclaimed Intellectual Property Group has extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of intellectual property law, including:

Our intellectual property attorneys represent clients across many industries – including advertising, apparel, e-commerce, entertainment, music, hospitality, food and beverage, health care, nonprofit, financial services, publishing, education, cannabis, media, technology and telecommunications.

July 26, 2022

The USPTO Offers Relief to Those Impacted by Russian Invasion in Ukraine

July 12, 2022

CSG Law Welcomes Aaron Rosenthal

June 27, 2022

Jason Holt and Neha Bhalani Featured Among the ROI-NJ 2022 Influencers for Diversity & Inclusion

June 23, 2022

Melissa Wernick Named to Volunteer Lawyers for Justice's Board of Trustees

June 7, 2022

Jason Holt and Neha Bhalani Named Co-Chairs of CSG Law's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee

June 1, 2022

CSG Law Achieves Highest Presence in Firm's History in 2022 Chambers USA Publication

June 1, 2022

New York Law Journal: The 'Amgen v. Sanofi' Enablement Battle and Best Practices in Light of the Federal Circuit's 112(a) Opinion on Broad, Functional Genus Claims

March 31, 2022

Seton Hall University School of Law: Women in IP

March 17, 2022

23 CSG Law Attorneys Chosen for Inclusion in the 2022 New Jersey Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists

March 8, 2022

CSG Law Ranks Among Top Trademark Firms in 2022 Edition of WTR 1000

February 24, 2022

Joseph V. Saphia and Jessica H. Zafonte Join CSG Law's New York Office

February 2022

Recent SDNY Ruling Highlights Inadequacy Of Oral Instructions To Protect Trade Secrets and Importance of Pleading "Reasonable Measures" in DTSA Claims

February 8, 2022

CSG Law Welcomes Jessica H. Zafonte

January 13, 2022

Celesq: 101 Patent Eligibility Trends to Watch in the S.D.N.Y.

December 3, 2021

The Federal Circuit's "Sharp Tongue" When it Comes to Bad Attorney Behavior

November 5, 2021

New York Law Journal: Trends to Watch Based On Recent Section 101 Patent Challenges in the S.D.N.Y.

September 2021

Recent Section 101 Patent Challenges in the Southern District of New York

August 2021

Recent Texas Decision Analyzes Defend Trade Secret Act's Interstate Commerce Requirement in the Context of Real Estate Transactions

July 22, 2021

CSG's Nussbaum Recognized as Only New Jersey-Based Practitioner Among World Trademark Review's 2021 Global Leaders in Private Practice

July 2021

U.S. Supreme Court Limits Patent Law Doctrine of Assignor Estoppel

On June 29, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in Minerva Surgical, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. limiting the patent law doctrine of assignor estoppel. The doctrine of assignor estoppel limits a party who has assigned a patent from later challenging the validity of that patent. The doctrine of assignor estoppel is grounded in the principle of fair dealing. When a party assigns its patent rights, the assignor makes an implicit representation to the assignee that the patent at issue is valid. However, in later raising an invalidity defense, the assignor disavows that warranty. In doing so, the assignor seeks to profit doubly—by gaining both the price of assigning the patent and the continued right to use the invention it covers.

July 2021

U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Upholds Constitutionality of PTAB ALJ Structure

On June 21, 2021 the U.S. Supreme Court, in U.S. v. Arthrex, case number 19-1434, ruled on the constitutionality of the current structure of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), a tribunal within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office where the validity of an issued patent can be challenged before administrative law judges (ALJs) during an inter partes review or a post grant review proceeding.

July 2, 2021