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June 10 2019
Danielle Cohen is an associate in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Group, where she provides comprehensive legal services to clients across a diverse range of industries, including in the medical and life sciences, consumer products, and technology sectors. Ms. Cohen works closely with her clients to navigate the complex landscape of intellectual property (IP) law, helping them safeguard and enhance the value of their inventions.
With substantial experience in both utility and design patent law, Ms. Cohen is highly skilled in preparing and prosecuting patent applications, including handling original filings and responding to office actions issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Her expertise extends to conducting thorough prior art and clearance searches, enabling clients to assess the strength of their IP and manage potential conflicts. Ms. Cohen also provides patent infringement analyses, evaluating risks of potential exposure to guide in making strategic decisions regarding their IP Portfolios.
In addition to patent law, Ms. Cohen is adept at managing intellectual property portfolios, providing support for IP due diligence during mergers and acquisitions, and assisting in litigation matters. Her experience in trademark law includes handling the full spectrum of trademark prosecution, from initial applications to securing registrations with the USPTO, and advising clients on trademark strategy to help them develop and protect their brand identities.
Fluent in Hebrew, Ms. Cohen is also able to assist a diverse range of clients, including those based internationally. A dedicated advocate for her clients, she strives to provide personalized legal counsel that aligns with each client’s unique needs and objectives.
Ms. Cohen is a registered patent attorney, admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the USPTO. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, and her Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry magna cum laude from Brooklyn College.
March 03 2026
Jeffrey Coleman, Ph.D. is a partner in the Firm’s Intellectual Property group. Dr. Coleman is a seasoned intellectual property litigator who represents clients in complex, high-stakes disputes and counsels clients seeking to protect or enforce their IP rights.
His litigation practice spans every facet of patent litigation, from pre-suit analysis and investigation, fact and expert discovery, depositions, technical reports, claim construction, dispositive motions, trial and appeals. He has litigated disputes in federal courts in the United States and has coordinated multi-jurisdictional disputes across the globe with parallel ex-U.S. litigations.
Dr. Coleman has experience with both biotech/life sciences and high tech inventions and has represented clients in both fields. Within the biotech/life sciences field, he has represented clients in disputes involving small molecule pharmaceuticals and therapeutics, biologics, vaccines and injectables, medical devices, DNA/RNA technology, and molecular diagnostics. Within the high tech field, he has represented clients in disputes involving cell phone security technology, computer security technology, distributed mobile networks, and satellite radio and streaming music technologies. In addition to litigating in federal courts, Dr. Coleman has experience representing clients in inter partes review proceedings before the USPTO, and in proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission.
In addition to his litigation practice, he routinely advises clients on corporate and transactional matters involving intellectual property. For example, he has advised clients on development and commercialization of patents and patent portfolios, freedom to operate, patent licensing, due diligence, risk assessment, and subsidiary wind-down procedures where company intellectual property assets are involved.
Dr. Coleman currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Prior to joining the Firm, he served as an officer and Treasurer of the NYIPLA, and as Co-Chair of the NYIPLA’s Amicus Briefs Committee. He is also a member of the American Bar Association.
In 2025, he was named to the Best Lawyers, “Ones to Watch” list in the field of Intellectual Property law.Prior to joining Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, he practiced law at several large law firms in New York. He received his J.D. cum laude from Fordham Law School, where he was the Executive Notes Editor of the Fordham Law Review. He also earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Toxicology from Penn State University, where his doctoral research focused on the prevention of pancreatic cancer metastasis using small molecule therapeutics. He also holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Ursinus College.
January 01 2026
Sherli Furst, a member of the Firm, is a commercial and intellectual property attorney who helps brands, creators, and companies protect, enforce, and monetize their most valuable assets. She brings deep experience handling high-stakes, complex IP matters across a wide range of industries, including fashion and apparel, entertainment, retail, fitness, food and beverage, and consumer products.
Ms. Furst is known for her strategic, business-minded approach to intellectual property. She advises clients on IP monetization, credit rights, and revenue distribution, with a focus on delivering practical solutions that align with broader commercial goals. Whether resolving disputes early or litigating aggressively when necessary, she helps clients protect brand equity and maintain leverage in competitive markets.
Intellectual Property Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Ms. Furst regularly guides clients through sophisticated enforcement, prosecution, and federal litigation matters, including:
• Trademark, copyright, and trade dress infringement disputes
• Contract and commercial disputes involving intellectual property rights
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) enforcement and takedown strategies
• Unfair competition and false designation of origin claims
• Rights of publicity and name, image, and likeness (NIL) mattersTrademark Enforcement & Prosecution
Ms. Furst advises clients at every stage of brand development and protection, from clearance to global enforcement, including:
• Management and enforcement of international trademark portfolios
• Strategic branding and copyright counseling for online and digital media
• Internet and platform-based enforcement matters
• Global trademark enforcement strategies
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) proceedings and prosecutionsCommercial & Cross-Border Litigation
In addition to her intellectual property practice, Ms. Furst represents clients in complex commercial disputes, including cross-border litigation, government and regulatory investigations, financial services litigation, and putative class and mass actions. She has advised financial institutions and multinational corporations in multi-jurisdictional disputes, bringing a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to matters with significant financial and reputational risk.
Ms. Furst is valued by clients for her responsiveness, strategic judgment, and ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, actionable guidance—helping businesses move forward with confidence.
January 01 2026
Robert Goethals is a member of the Firm with 35 years of experience as a patent litigator, having tried numerous cases in the federal district courts, including jury and bench trials, and the U.S. International Trade Commission. His patent litigation experience covers a wide range of technologies, including chemical products, mechanical devices, electronic consumer products, computer network systems and medical devices.
Mr. Goethals’ practice also covers patent prosecution, counseling, opinions and licensing, as well as intellectual property due diligence analysis in connection with corporate transactions.
January 01 2026
Emma Hoffmann is an intellectual property associate and registered patent attorney. She uses her educational background and relevant work experience to assist and advise clients with intellectual property litigation and transactional needs.
Ms. Hoffmann graduated with a J.D. from Penn State Law in May 2022 where she concentrated on intellectual property, environmental law, and the interplay between science, technology, and law. Prior to Penn State Law, she attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated with a B.S. in Natural Resources and Environmental Science.
September 05 2024
Scott H. Kaliko is a member in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Group. For more than 20 years he has acted as counsel for a variety of intellectual property clients. Mr. Kaliko has also served as first chair in several IP litigations covering patent, copyright, and trademark matters. His practice focuses on intellectual property protection, including strategic counseling, patent, copyright, and trademark prosecution, and enforcement of patents, copyrights, and trademarks. With a background in electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology, he works with the Firm’s clients in the medical device, mechanical device, design patents, and related fields for clients such as Honeywell, Siemens, and Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Additionally, Mr. Kaliko handles transactional corporate and intellectual property matters, including licensing, intellectual property due diligence, non-disclosure agreements, and intellectual property provisions of contracts.
Mr. Kaliko also adds a unique talent to his intellectual property practice as a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a subject matter expert in the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering compliance for banks, broker dealers, and registered investment advisers where he has provided counsel to Bain Capital, First Southwest Broker Dealer, Banamex (subsidiary of Citibank), LPL Financial, and Aladdin Capital just to name a few. Mr. Kaliko’s Risk and Regulatory work surrounds AML, OFAC sanctions screening, writing policies and procedures, transaction testing, and training.
He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Eastern District of New York, the Southern District of New York, the District of New Jersey, and is a registered patent attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and his Bachelor of Science degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of the State of New York in Albany.
January 01 2026
David Leichtman, a member of the Firm, has tried a variety of complex matters in federal and state courts around the country. Recent trials Mr. Leichtman has first-chaired have involved: patent infringement; copyright infringement and ownership; breach of fiduciary duty; fraud; unjust enrichment; and contract claims. The types of matters he handles include patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark cases, as well as other kinds of commercial litigation involving business torts. He has significant experience in a variety of industries including: life sciences; arts, media, entertainment and information; financial services; consumer electronics; and the retail industries. His work also involves the monetization of IP portfolios and licensing.
Mr. Leichtman served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts from 2009-2018, and he continues to serve on its board and executive committee. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of The Copyright Society, the Boad of Advisors of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media & The Arts at Columbia Law School, and is the Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan. In the past he has served as a board member or chair or vice-chair of various committees of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Owners Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has been named a New York SuperLawyer for intellectual property and commercial litigation every year since 2010. In 2016, The New York Law Journal selected him as a Lawyer Who Leads by Example for providing crucial pro bono legal services in New York. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a highly selective Trial Lawyer Honor Society, where he is a founding member of its Intellectual Property Institute.
Prior to joining Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, Mr. Leichtman was Managing Partner of trial law firm Leichtman Law PLLC, formed in April 2017 after practicing for over 20 years in large law firms. Leichtman Law was awarded as a Chambers Spotlight small firm for 2026. Mr. Leichtman is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School (1986), the University of Michigan (BA, 1990), Hunter College (MA, 1993), and Columbia Law School (JD, 1996).
September 25 2025
Amelia Lembeck is an associate in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Group, with a focus on litigation and counseling related to trademarks, copyrights, and similar fields.
Ms. Lembeck earned her J.D. from Fordham Law School, from which she graduated cum laude and completed a concentration in Intellectual Property and Information Privacy Law. She was a member of the Environmental Law Review and the Brendan Moore Trial Advocacy Team. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College.
Ms. Lembeck is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.
February 29 2024
David Lindenbaum is a partner and registered patent attorney in the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Litigation Practice Groups. His practice spans litigation, prosecution, opinion, and transactional matters.
Mr. Lindenbaum has extensive experience litigating patent, trademark, and false advertising cases in federal trial and appellate courts, including case preparation and strategy, fact and expert discovery, depositions, motion practice, Markman hearings, trials, and appeals. He has also served as lead counsel for both Petitioners and Patent Owners in Inter Partes Review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
His practice also focuses on counseling clients on intellectual portfolio development, including development of both domestic and international portfolios. He works closely with clients to help them identify inventions and trademarks that can and should be protected in accordance with each client’s objectives, and to prepare and prosecute valuable patent and trademark applications.
He counsels clients regarding potential risks by providing freedom-to-operate opinions and opinions concerning the validity of patents held by others. He also handles transactional work, including intellectual property license negotiations and due diligence for corporate transactions.
Mr. Lindenbaum works on matters involving a broad range of technologies, including medical devices and treatments, computer software and Internet security, telecommunications systems, automotive systems, manufacturing and construction equipment, consumer electronic devices, financial services, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, cannabis processing, and food products.
Prior to joining the Firm, he practiced intellectual property law at Kelley Drye & Warren. He was previously an associate at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel and Fish & Neave.
He received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School.
Mr. Lindenbaum is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
January 01 2026
Zoe Neefe, an associate of the Firm, has dedicated her education and professional career to the arts. Growing up in a family of artists, Ms. Neefe decided to focus her talents to bridging the gap between creatives and their legal needs.
Ms. Neefe graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she earned a J.D. with a concentration in Intellectual Property Law. While at Cardozo, she served as the President of Cardozo Art Law Society and the Business Editor of Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review.
Before attending Cardozo, Ms. Neefe graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.A. in Art History and Political Science.
January 01 2026
Devin Newman, an associate of the Firm, focuses on the intersection of technology and intellectual property. With a background in the computer security industry, he is uniquely qualified to counsel clients and litigate matters involving complex technological issues. From patent litigation, to data privacy policies, he has a keen interest in getting to the root of the legal issue and developing workable and effective solutions.
In addition, Mr. Newman has been a musician for over 20 years, providing him with insight into the creative process and a passion for helping artists protect their works, be it in contract or in court.
Mr. Newman earned his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he served as Symposium Editor for the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, and was a recipient of both the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the K. Rosen Family Scholarship, recognizing excellence in academic achievement and potential for success in the legal profession. He received his B.S. in Applied Networking and Systems Administration from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
June 10 2019
Atul R. Singh, of counsel to the firm, is an intellectual property attorney whose practice focuses primarily on litigation, counseling, and prosecution in connection with trademarks and copyrights and related legal fields. Mr. Singh has represented a broad range of clients in intellectual property and related matters, including in the telecommunications, Internet, e-commerce, media, luxury goods, publishing, apparel, retail, consumer products, software, and technology industries.
His litigation experience includes substantive areas such as false advertising, trade dress infringement, domain names (UDRP), anti-counterfeiting, anti-cybersquatting, rights of publicity, and unfair competition. Mr. Singh has also been involved with patent litigation. In addition to having experience in all phases of civil proceedings such as evidentiary hearings, motion practice, pre-trial preparation, and trials, Mr. Singh has on several occasions represented clients in successfully obtaining or defending against preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders, including successfully defending such results on appeal.
Mr. Singh has also performed all aspects of United States trademark prosecution and handled proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) of the United States Patent & Trademark Office. In addition, Mr. Singh has handled drafting and responding to take down notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Mr. Singh’s transactional experience encompasses the negotiation, drafting and implementation of a broad array of agreements concerning intellectual property and related rights, including licenses, co-existence agreements, concurrent use agreements, settlement agreements, work-for-hire agreements, website terms of use, privacy policies, assignments, technology transfers, distribution agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.
Mr. Singh successfully completed the requirements for CIPP/US designation in privacy law from the International Association for Privacy Professionals, a not-for-profit association.
Mr. Singh is a 2000 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he graduated cum laude and served as a member of the Cardozo Law Review. He received a double major in finance and international business in 1995 from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Singh is admitted to the bar of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
June 10 2019
John C. Stellabotte is a Member of the Firm in its Intellectual Property and Litigation Practice Groups. Mr. Stellabotte is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience litigating patent, copyright, trade secret, antitrust, contract, tort, trademark, false advertising, and information technology related matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts, including case preparation and strategy, fact and expert discovery, depositions, motion practice, Markman hearings, preliminary injunction hearings, bench and jury trials, arbitrations, mediations, appeals, and settlement negotiations.
Mr. Stellabotte’s practice also focuses on counseling clients in patent portfolio development. He has significant experience in patent prosecution and has experience in USPTO inter partes review and reexamination proceedings. He also has experience providing patent noninfringement and invalidity opinions.
Mr. Stellabotte has worked on matters involving a broad range of technologies, including computer hardware and software, consumer electronics, telecommunications products and services, smart phones, tablets, and mobile media technologies, data transmission, Internet, digital video compression standards, CDs and DVDs, mobile phones, the ATSC digital television standard, navigation and location-based services, pharmaceutical capsules, biotechnology, including immunoassays, home pregnancy and other diagnostic tests, and medical devices, financial services, e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, and food products and processes.
Mr. Stellabotte handles transactional work, including intellectual property due diligence, intellectual property licensing, information technology agreements, and product distribution agreements. He has advised clients on nondisclosure agreements, intellectual property corporate policies, and intellectual property aspects of employment agreements.
Mr. Stellabotte also has significant experience litigating and advising on general commercial matters involving a wide range of subject matter, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, federal securities, antitrust, contract, tort, product liability, employment, environmental, insurance, bankruptcy, and federal habeas corpus (pro bono).
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Stellabotte was Senior Counsel at Proskauer Rose LLP in the Patent, Intellectual Property, and Litigation Groups, where he practiced for 16 years. He was previously an Associate in the Litigation Group at Sullivan & Cromwell.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he was inducted into Tau Beta Pi (the Engineering National Honor Society). He received his Juris doctor degree from The George Washington University School of Law with High Honors, where he was an Associate Editor of The George Washington Law Review and a Member of the Moot Court Board. Mr. Stellabotte also has been active in bar associations and is a current Member of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association Patent Litigation Committee.
He is admitted to practice in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, New York, New Jersey, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.