October 03, 2025
A Connecticut federal judge has declined to upend an expert's valuation amounting to $54,775 in a trademark infringement suit over the names of deceased law partners that appear in the masthead of intellectual property firm Ohlandt Greeley Ruggiero & Perle LLP, determining such a change is unwarranted.
August 27, 2025
A longtime Connecticut intellectual property lawyer who left Ohlandt Greeley Ruggiero & Perle LLP to launch his own firm says the names of two deceased partners are worth more to a remaining attorney than an expert's proposed 2% licensing fee, arguing the names achieved "celebrity status" in the IP community.
July 15, 2025
The names of two deceased law partners are worth between $28,000 and $52,000 per year to a Connecticut intellectual property boutique, an expert testified Tuesday during a federal court hearing in a valuation dispute between two of the late lawyers' colleagues.
January 29, 2024
A Connecticut magistrate judge ruled Monday that while a settlement agreement barring an intellectual property attorney from contacting his ex-partner's clients extends to the attorney's new firm, it doesn't prevent the lawyer from sending holiday greetings because the prohibition's broadness flouted Connecticut state law.
January 24, 2024
Stamford, Connecticut-based intellectual property attorney Paul D. Greeley must send corrective messages to a competitor's clients after his firm accidentally sent them allegedly improper billing statements, a Connecticut federal judge ordered Wednesday.
January 19, 2024
Courts might not have the authority to order an attorney to refrain from marketing to a competitor's clients, an "exceptionally skeptical" Connecticut federal judge observed Friday as he considered a dispute arising from a settlement between two former law partners.
October 12, 2023
A Connecticut attorney who sued his former law partner, alleging unauthorized use of his name in mailings and online, is asking a federal judge to step in and enforce a settlement agreement meant to put an end to the "co-opting" of his name.
June 02, 2023
A conflict between a Connecticut attorney and his former partner over their firm's name — which included three suits in both state and federal court — has come to an end after the group reached a settlement.
March 29, 2023
A Connecticut lawyer locked in a fight with a former partner over their firm's name says the former partner showed a "fundamental misunderstanding" by alleging that the suit involves an improper trademark claim, arguing that he never alleged any infringement.
March 20, 2023
A lawyer has asked a Connecticut federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by his former partner of more than 20 years, arguing that a dispute over a law firm's name is a matter of state contract law and not a trademark issue.