Senior Partner
Contact Information
Phone: 212.269.1114
Email: cbruzga@aboutiplaw.com
Education
University of Colorado, Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, 1975
Franklin Pierce Law School, Juris Doctor, 1979
Admissions
New York Bar, 1986
New Hampshire Bar, 1979
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1999
Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1986
Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1986
Federal District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 1979
U.S. Supreme Court, 1987
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1980
Profile
After graduating with Honors with a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1975, Bruzga obtained a Juris Doctor Degree in 1979 from the Franklin Pierce Law School, focusing on intellectual property (“IP”) law. Attorney Bruzga spent the first six years of his career working for General Electric Company, mainly at its prolifically innovative Research and Development Center, where he intensely focused on patent prosecution. For the next six years, he worked in private practice in the New York City IP firms of Ostrolenk, Faber, Gerb & Soffen and Cohen, Lieberman & Pontani, where he obtained diverse experience in IP law, including prosecution of trademark and copyright applications, licensing of patents, trademarks and copyrights, preparing patent infringement and validity opinions and participating in infringement litigation for patents, trademarks and trade secrets. In 1991, he started the present firm.
Attorney Bruzga has presented talks before local and national intellectual property law associations, and before the computer examining group of the United States Patent Office. He has authored various articles on IP law, selected ones of which are listed below. The articles can be found topically, by first selecting the area of law (e.g., patents) from the top navigation buttons, and then selecting the Publications navigation button for that subject.
Professional Affiliations
American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Selected Publications
- “A Review of the Benson-Flook-Diehr Trilogy: Can the `Subject Matter’ Patentability of Patent Claims reciting Mathematical Formulae Be Determined Under 35 U.S.C. Section 112?” 69 JPTOS 197 (1987).
- “Sophisticated Purchaser Defense Avoided Where Pre-Sale Confusion is Harmful—A Brief Note,” 78 TMR 659 (1988) and 71 JPTOS 32 (1989).
- “Challenging in Court U.S.P.T.O. Administrative Decisions: A Primer on Litigation Issues,” 7 AIPLA SELECTED LEGAL PAPERS 303 (1989) and 31 IDEA 51 (1990).
- “Bar Admission Made Easier for Certain Federal Patent or Trademark Attorneys,” 31 IDEA 59 (1990).
- “The Benson Court’s Approach to Computer Software—or Other—Patent Claims Reciting a Mathematical Algorithm,” 74 JPTOS 135 (1992).
- “U.S. Trademarks Employing Foreign Terms,” 76 JPTOS 571 (1994), co-author.