Steven M. Gruskin Partner

Steven M. Gruskin is a partner at Sughrue Mion, PLLC focusing on intellectual property litigation (at the federal district court and appellate levels), and maintaining a significant prosecution practice in the electro-mechanical arts. His practice also includes extensive client counseling and opinion work, with specific expertise in reissue and reexamination practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

District of Columbia, Florida
U.S. Court of Appeals - Federal Circuit
U.S. District Court - Southern District of Florida
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of State of Florida
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

The George Washington University, The National Law Center (J.D.  1991)
University of Miami (B.S.M.E cum laude 1988)

Henry King Stanford Scholarship

Malin, Haley, DiMaggio & Crosby, Associate (1993-94) - patent, trademark and copyright prosecution, litigation and licensing
Superior Court of Connecticut, Assistant Clerk of the Court (1989-90)
Gruskin and Gruskin, Summer Law Clerk (1987-90)

DWS v. Franklin Miller (C.D. Cal. 1998)

Hay & Forage Industries et. al. v. New Holland (D. Kan. 1998)

In the Matter of Certain Automated Mechanical Transmission Systems, ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-503 (2004)

JWC Environmental Inc. v. Franklin Miller, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2004)

Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. et. al. v. Turn-Key-Tech LLC (S.D. Cal 2003)

Koito v. Turnkey (S.D. Ca. 2003 & CAFC 2004)

Shimano v. Daiwa (C.D. Cal. 1998)

Siemens Corp. v. Eaton (N.D. Ill. 2000)

Turn-Key v. Nissan Motors (S.D. Cal. 2000)

Associations
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
District of Columbia Bar Association - Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Section
American Intellectual Property Law Association
AIPPI
International Intellectual Property Law Association
American Bar Association
Tau Beta Pi
Pi Tau Sigma

Reality Bytes: A New Era of Electronic Discovery
To Err is Human, to Correct by Reissue Divine
To Err is Human, To Correct by Reissue Divine: Correcting By Reisuse What Could Not be Broadened by the Doctrine of Equivalents
"Technology transfer: What India can learn from the US", JIPR, September 2005

2004 Sughrue Symposium – University of Akron School of Law – “Willful Infringement/Attorney-Client Privilege”