It has been a cheerful busy week of litigation, counseling, intellectual property, business transactions, and golf.
In New Haven Superior Court, the firm is pursuing a prejudgment remedy application in what looks like a romance fraud case.
Also in New Haven Superior Court, though it really should be in Federal Court, the firm is defending a prejudgment remedy that has frozen the client’s operating account and placed the client in jeopardy of failing to make payroll: a legal and business catastrophe in the balance. Negotiations with the counterparty’s BigLaw counsel continue.
In New Haven Federal District Court, the firm submitted a final 26(f) report to advance the case toward an evidentiary hearing on a prejudgment remedy application for the client’s pending counterclaims. In the 26(f) report, the firm anticipated arguments against the plaintiff’s proposed (untimely) additions of claims to the complaint.
In the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the firm analyzed several refusals of trademark applications and offered strategies to clients for advancing the applications toward registration of the trademarks. Also, the firm is preparing an Opposition for a client to file against a competitor’s pending trademark application.
Transactional matters in progress include the purchase of a gas station/C-store, the purchase of a bar and grill, and the buyout of a partner to resolve irreconcilable differences in the management of another bar and grill.
In Miami, arbitration has been complicated by the respondent being repeatedly arrested for heinous behavior unrelated to the commercial fraud at issue.
Not yet in court, the firm is counseling a client on how to handle trademark infringement allegations against them.
In Milford Superior Court, a scheduling order has been filed and the firm has received additional discovery requests related to a commercial breach of warranty / CUTPA matter.
Next week the firm will be filing an application in Waterbury Superior Court for prejudgment remedy related to a defendant’s repudiation of a purchase and sale agreement.
Finally, I got in a round of golf at the Orchards with a good friend Friday afternoon. The weather was perfectly chilly and the clubs swung well. Made par on holes 7 and 8.
