Edward R. Scofield

Practice Areas
Litigation



 

Phone: (203) 332-5726
Email: escofield@znclaw.com

Mr. Scofield joined the firm in 1986 and has established a successful practice concentrating primarily in commercial litigation and intellectual property litigation. Representative cases include an antitrust claim stemming from a hostile corporate takeover, a dispute involving television syndication contracts, obtaining injunctions against false advertising and against the violation of restrictive covenants, and a number of complex patent and trademark cases. 

Mr. Scofield has also litigated a wide range of other civil matters, including multi-million dollar foreclosure and bankruptcy cases, disputes between commercial landlords and tenants, fraud claims, business torts, sophisticated probate disputes, and the defense of product liability claims.

Education

• Yale University (1982)
• University of Connecticut (1985)

• U.S. District Court, Hon. T. Emmet Claire (1985-1986)

• Connecticut (1985)
• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut (1986)
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1996)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1992)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (1994)

• Greater Bridgeport Bar Association
• Connecticut Bar Association
• American Bar Association

• CDC Technologies, Inc. v. IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., 186 F.3d 74 (2d Cir. 1999)
• Enzo Biochem, Inc. v. Applera Corp, 2007 WL 2669025 (D. Conn. Sept. 6, 2007)
• Connecticut Community Bank v. Bank of Greenwich, 2007 WL 1306547 (D. Conn. May 3, 2007)
• Tyco Healthcare Group LP v. Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., 411 F.Supp.2d 93 (D. Conn. 2006)
• On-Line Technologies, Inc. v. Perkin-Elmer Corp., 253 F.Supp.2d 313 (D. Conn. 2003)
• On-Line Technologies v. Perkin Elmer Corp., 141 F.Supp.2d 246 (D. Conn. 2001)
• USES Mfg., Inc. v. Rocky Mountain Institute Research, 94 F.Supp.2d 218 (D. Conn. 2000)
• U.S. Surgical Corp. v. Imagyn Med. Technologies, Inc., 25 F.Supp.2d 40 (D. Conn. 1998)
• Edberg v. Neogen Corp., 17 F.Supp.2d 104 (D. Conn. 1998)
• GICC Capital Corp. v. Technology Finance Group, Inc., 891 F. Supp. 64 (D. Conn. 1994)
• Weissman v. General Cable Co., 862 F. Supp. 731 (D. Conn. 1994)
• Bergesen d.y. A/S v. Lindholm, 760 F. Supp. 976 (D. Conn. 1991)
• Nabisco Brands, Inc. v. Kaye, 760 F. Supp. 25 (D. Conn. 1991)
• TUC Electronics, Inc. v. Eagle Telephonics, Inc., 698 F. Supp. 35 (D. Conn. 1988)
• Efthimiou v. Smith, 268 Conn. 487, 846 A.2d 216 (2004)
• Anthony Julian R.R. Const. Co., Inc. v. Mary Ellen Drive Associates, 50 Conn. App. 289, 717 A.2d 294 (1998)
• Anthony Julian R.R. Const. Co., Inc. v. Mary Ellen Drive Associates, 235 Conn. 930, 667 A.2d 800 (1995)
• Lafayette Bank and Trust Co. v. Szentkuti, 222 Conn. 901, 606 A.2d 1327 (1992)
• Lafayette Bank and Trust Co. v. Szentkuti, 27 Conn. App. 15, 603 A.2d 1215 (1992)
• Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald, 16 Conn. App. 548, 547 A.2d 1387 (1988)
• State v. Fernandez, 198 Conn. 1, 501 A.2d 1195 (1985)