Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, PC

Counsel. St. John's University School of Law (JD 2003, cum laude) (CALI Award for Excellence in Achievement in Contracts; Accepted to Law Review; Dean's List; Academic Scholarship) Pace University (BBA 1999, magna cum laude), (Honors Program, Business Management Departmental Award, Dean's List, every semester, Beta Gamma Sigma, Academic Scholarships, Alpha Chi, National Honor Society)

Anastasia Zhadina

Partner. Anastasia concentrates on patent and trademark counseling, patent preparation and prosecution in the areas of materials, mechanical and electro-mechanical technologies, such as optical devices and fuel cell systems and components.

C. J. Erickson

Partner. Head of the Customs, International Cargo and Regulatory Compliance Group C.J. represents domestic and multinational corporations before U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Food and Drug Administration, Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal Trade Commission, State Department, Department of Commerce and other government agencies impacting global trade. He concentrates on Customs and International Trade law. He advises importers, exporters, manufacturers, Customs brokers, freight forwarders, and others involved in the international supply chain on production, compliance, classification, valuation, transportation, admissibility and related Customs and other agency trade matters. His practice covers regulatory compliance in the areas of import and export controls including, ITAR, Free Trade Agreements, origin verifications, Customs audits, penalty and liquidated damages cases, Consumer Product Safety and other enforcement matters.

Dasha Chestukhin

Associate. Dasha’s practice encompasses a broad range of intellectual property matters, including trademarks, copyrights, domain names, unfair competition and patents. Dasha regularly litigates disputes in federal and state courts, and has extensive experience with contested proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and with UDRP domain name dispute proceedings before the World Intellectual Property Organization. At the same time, she is skilled at resolving disputes in creative and cooperative ways, both within and outside the context of legal proceedings. In addition to handling adversarial matters, Dasha advises clients on the clearance, prosecution, registration, management and enforcement of trademarks and domain names. Her litigation background also allows her to counsel her clients with a view to avoiding unnecessary controversies while protecting valuable rights. Dasha works with a wide variety of clients, including fashion and lifestyle companies, start-ups, hotels and restaurants, wine and food businesses, charitable organizations, technology firms, and many others.

Deborah Squiers

Partner and Head of the Firm’s Trademark Group. Debbie concentrates her practice on intellectual property with particular emphasis on trademark enforcement and litigation and trademark counseling and prosecution (US and worldwide). She counsels clients in the financial, entertainment, sports, beverage, food, and restaurant industries, among others.

Dorothy Whitney

Counsel. Dorothy brings her talents as a lawyer to many fields. She is mainly involved in handling worldwide trademark registration programs for major corporations. She also handles several employment and corporate law matters.

Eric Shimanoff

Partner. Eric Shimanoff advises on and litigates complex intellectual property matters concerning trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, counterfeiting, domain names, false advertising, trade secrets, publicity rights, patents, the Internet, websites, social media platforms, mobile apps, content clearance, licensing and other agreements. Eric prides himself on his ability to provide pragmatic and cost‐effective solutions to clients across broad range of industries, including fashion, entertainment, financial services, food, cosmetics and real estate.

J. Christopher Jensen

Counsel. Chris is a senior member of the firm's litigation group. His practice consists of facilitating the resolution of commercial and intellectual property disputes through negotiation, alternative dispute resolution procedures and, where necessary, through the trial of actions before federal and state courts and arbitration tribunals throughout the United States.

Jeffrey Chery

Partner. Jeffrey’s practice focuses on trademark prosecution, clearance, and maintenance matters. In addition, Jeffrey handles domestic enforcement issues and represents clients in contested proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. As a former Trademark Examining Attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, he has extensive experience in managing and resolving substantive and procedural issues pertaining to trademark prosecution. Jeffrey has spoken on topics of interest to trademark owners, including concerning complex USPTO refusals, securing trademarks rights as part of business formation, recent changes in USPTO trademark practice, and international filing strategies.

Jeffrey Epstein

Partner. Jeff concentrates on domestic and international trademark law, including practicing before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.Jeff handles the worldwide intellectual property portfolios of multinational corporations based in the United States, as well as the interests of many foreign corporations and individuals doing business in this country. He regularly counsels clients on the clearance, acquisition, maintenance, licensing, and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including trademarks and domain names.

Joel Karni Schmidt

Partner. Joel is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee with over 25 years’ experience handling trademark and copyright clearance, filing strategies, prosecution, management, and enforcement, resolving complex problems and disputes, managing the intellectual property aspects of initial public offerings, brand acquisitions, strategic alliances, co-branding, licensing, and bankruptcies and reorganizations. Joel regularly represents some of the most well-known brands in the world with respect to complex global trademark and copyright matters.

Joelle Milov

Partner. Joelle represents clients in all aspects of securing and defending intellectual property rights: She assists clients in prosecuting and enforcing their trademarks domestically and internationally. She also has extensive experience in intellectual property litigations in federal courts and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, as well as domain name disputes brought by UDRP. Additionally, Joelle has significant experience in litigating cases in New York State Courts and has represented clients and served as local counsel in general commercial cases in these venues. She represents clients in a wide range of industries, including those in the music, food, financial services, consumer products, and professional sports industries.

Jonathan King

Jonathan King is a Partner and former long-time Chair and Executive Committee Member of the Firm. He has handled intellectual property litigations in a wide range of industries, including music, fashion, sports, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, software, advertising, licensing, publishing and various consumer products. His practice encompasses the full gamut of intellectual property subjects, including trademarks, copyright, trade secrets and the licensing of intellectual property. He regularly tries copyright and trademark infringement cases in the federal courts and handles opposition and cancellation actions before the Trademark Trial Appeal Board. Mr. King’s engagements have included a number of landmark intellectual property matters, including some of the first cases involving the use of trademarks as internet keywords, online liability for linking to pirated materials, and the application of copyright law to the “resale” of digital files. He also has extensive experience in the use of consumer surveys in Lanham Act litigation. Among others, he has represented The Donna Karan Company, the Recording Industry Association of America, Capitol Records, Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Major League Baseball Properties, and the National Audubon Society.

Kieran Doyle

Partner. Kieran counsels clients regarding trademark clearance, registration, prosecution, licensing and protection. He litigates intellectual property and product labeling matters in federal and state courts. He also represents brandowners before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Kieran's clients include fashion, footwear, hair care and skin care companies, publishers, professional sports marketing and merchandising companies, restaurants, food and beverage manufacturers.

Kyle-Beth Hilfer

Counsel. Kyle-Beth Hilfer has over thirty years’ experience providing legal counsel to advertising, marketing, promotions, intellectual property, and new media clients. Leveraging her deep understanding of branding, Kyle-Beth ensures regulatory compliance for her clients’ advertising and marketing campaigns. She also helps clients create, monetize, and protect their trademark and copyright portfolios in a global marketplace. Kyle-Beth counsels across all types of platforms in an ever-changing marketplace, including print, tv, radio, social media, digital, e-commerce, mobile, and virtual reality. She regularly performs advertising copy clearance and claim substantiation review. In addition, Kyle-Beth counsels from concept stage through execution on the legal implications of specific marketing techniques, including sweepstakes and contests, word of mouth marketing, user-generated content, premium offers, rebates, negative option and advance consent marketing, loyalty programs, cause marketing, and native advertising.Kyle-Beth is a resource for all transactional matters relating to advertising and marketing campaigns. She drafts all required contracts from agency, marketing services, and influencer contracts to NDA’s, vendor/consulting agreements, and licenses. At the same time, she excels in proactive and early dispute resolution. She also counsels on regulatory investigations, false advertising litigation, and NAD challenges.

Mark Montague

Partner. Mark is head of the firm's patent group. Mark is a patent attorney registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Mark focuses on the handling of all patent matters, including the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the electrical, electronic, computer, business method and mechanical arts before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, patent litigation, patent licensing, patent due diligence studies, patentability, infringement and validity studies, and counseling in other areas of intellectual property including trademark, trade dress, copyright and trade secret protection and enforcement.

Mary Kevlin

Partner. concentrates on all facets of trademark, copyright and unfair competition law.

Maryann Licciardi

Partner.Maryann's practice focuses on domestic and international trademark and copyright matters, including trademark prosecution, contested proceedings, trademark and copyright litigation, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board practice, and domain name disputes, and counseling of corporate and individual clients. She has represented clients in many industries, including the sports and entertainment, banking and financial, publishing and printing, apparel and household products industries.

Meichelle MacGregor

Counsel. Meichelle's practice consists of counseling clients on all types of intellectual property matters including trademarks, copyrights, domain names and e-commerce. She also handles a wide variety of commercial and corporate disputes. Meichelle is also an Adjunct Professor at the New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where she teaches International Intellectual Property Law.

Richard Dannay

Counsel. A litigator and practitioner in the areas of copyright, publishing and trademark law, as well as libel, privacy, publicity and related matters. Experienced in copyright litigation on behalf of book publishers. He has handled significant cutting edge court cases.

Richard Mandel

Partner. Richard is a litigator with more than thirty years of experience handling intellectual property cases, including copyright, trademark, unfair competition and Internet-related matters, as well as other complex commercial disputes. He regularly represents clients in federal court actions, contested proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and arbitrations and other alternative dispute proceedings. Richard’s clients include companies in the music, television and motion picture, sports, fashion, and food industries.

Robert English

Partner. Bob's practice focuses on domestic and international trademark prosecution and enforcement matters. He has represented clients in the craft beer, apparel, musical instrument, software, advertising, beauty, art and entertainment industries. Bob has experience representing clients in connection with a variety of intellectual property-related transactional matters, including licensing, asset purchase and joint development agreements. Bob also practices before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and has litigated trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition matters.

Robert Giordanella

Partner. Bob concentrates on succession planning and estate and trust administration. He also handles significant commercial transactions, including the purchase and sale of publishing and other media related companies and businesses involved in the sale, distribution or manufacture of various consumer products. He represents individuals and businesses before the IRS and state taxing authorities (particularly in cases involving residency, sales tax issues and matters relating to the cable TV and communications industry).

Ronald Meister

Counsel. Mr. Meister has successfully litigated cases ranging from a criminal antitrust case in Montana to a multi-million-dollar tax case in New York. He has represented manufacturers, publishers, cable television companies, housing cooperatives, copyright and trademark owners, theater producers, religious organizations, civil liberties organizations, corporate executives, attorneys, a former Prime Minister of Israel, a former Vice President of the United States, and individuals in the milk, concrete, electrical contracting, news, entertainment, and kosher food industries.

Simon Gerson

Counsel. Simon has more than 30 years of experience counseling and attending to the varied commercial and corporate needs of established privately-held businesses and their principals. He also attends to the special entrepreneurial needs of start-up companies and their founders, including the selection, organization, and governance of business entities, mergers and acquisitions and financings. Simon also has significant experience in residential and commercial real estate transactions, including commercial leasing, property acquisitions, multi-million dollar financings, and tax-advantaged exchange property transactions. More recently, building on his corporate experience, Simon has devoted significant attention to transactional and licensing matters in the technology area. Simon has served on the firm’s Executive Committee and as its Administrative Partner.

Thomas Kjellberg

Counsel. Tom Kjellberg practices in the areas of copyright, right of publicity and trademark law and represents companies large and small in copyright licensing and other transactions, litigation and enforcement matters. He asserts, and defends against, copyright infringement claims by photographers, fine artists and composers, and has participated in the drafting of amicus curiae briefs on behalf of major copyright holders, including the RIAA, the MPAA and Sony Computer Entertainment America. Tom also speaks and writes frequently on copyright and related issues, and for many years has been the chief author of the Annual Review of Copyright Decisions published each year in the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA and delivered at the Copyright Society’s annual meeting. Tom is a past Trustee of the Society. He also is co-author of the Copyright Law columns regularly published in the New York Law Journal.

William Borchard

Senior Counsel. Bill has handled domestic and international trademark and copyright matters at the highest level for over 60 years. He has counseled and represented clients on domestic and international trademark matters concerning clearance, registration, proper use, licensing, contested administrative proceedings and infringement claims. He became Senior Counsel in January 2024 and is now focusing on providing guidance and advice to other lawyers within our firm and writing informative and engaging articles on intellectual property law developments.

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