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June 10 2019
Danielle Cohen is an associate in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Group. Ms. Cohen works with the Firm’s clients who operate in various industries spanning from the medical and life sciences fields to the consumer products and technology sectors.
Ms. Cohen has significant experience handling utility and design patent application preparation and prosecution, including original filings and responses to office actions. She conducts prior art and clearance searches, and provides patentability opinions, patent infringement opinions, patent portfolio management, intellectual property due diligence, and intellectual property litigation support. She also has substantial experience in trademark prosecution, often assisting clients in securing registrations for their trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Ms. Cohen is admitted to practice in the State of New York. 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. She is also a fluent Hebrew speaker.
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.
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.