Douglas A. Miro Partner
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Douglas A. Miro partners with clients to provide practical legal advice to grow, maximize and protect their businesses. He guides clients in all stages of their intellectual property needs from product development to manufacturing, as well as strategic advice on the establishment, maintenance and defense of their intellectual property programs.
Armed with deep technical and legal expertise, Doug litigates patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition and trade secret cases in district and appellate courts throughout the country in a wide variety of fields, including fashion and retail, cosmetics, consumer products, mechanical, electrical, healthcare, ceramics, steel making, refractories, medical devices and Internet-related technologies. His approach to litigation does not always result in contesting matters in court, but often leads to sensible business solution's through alternate dispute resolution when appropriate, among other means.
Doug also prosecutes and helps clients create and manage strategic patent and trademark portfolios that deliver lasting business value. He counsels businesses in many industries including hospitals and other health care providers on not only how to establish intellectual property programs, but how to monetize intellectual property though licensing and technology transfer.
Doug is a member of IP bar associations including the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) where he co-chairs the fashion law committee as well as the Intellectual Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association where he co-chairs the patent law committee. In connection with these organizations, he often lectures and writes articles on cutting edge intellectual property topics. He was named one of Super Lawyers’ Top 100 Metro lawyers in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020-2021 and 2023 in the intellectual property area and has been recognized in the main Super Lawyers’ list for the past 14 years.
Armed with deep technical and legal expertise, Doug litigates patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition and trade secret cases in district and appellate courts throughout the country in a wide variety of fields, including fashion and retail, cosmetics, consumer products, mechanical, electrical, healthcare, ceramics, steel making, refractories, medical devices and Internet-related technologies. His approach to litigation does not always result in contesting matters in court, but often leads to sensible business solution's through alternate dispute resolution when appropriate, among other means.
Doug also prosecutes and helps clients create and manage strategic patent and trademark portfolios that deliver lasting business value. He counsels businesses in many industries including hospitals and other health care providers on not only how to establish intellectual property programs, but how to monetize intellectual property though licensing and technology transfer.
Doug is a member of IP bar associations including the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) where he co-chairs the fashion law committee as well as the Intellectual Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association where he co-chairs the patent law committee. In connection with these organizations, he often lectures and writes articles on cutting edge intellectual property topics. He was named one of Super Lawyers’ Top 100 Metro lawyers in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020-2021 and 2023 in the intellectual property area and has been recognized in the main Super Lawyers’ list for the past 14 years.
Published Articles
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NYSBA Bright Ideas Publishes Article - Appeal of the Second Circuit’s ML Genius Holdings LLC v. Google LLC Decision May Resolve a Circuit Split on Copyright Act Preemption Tests
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NYSBA Bright Ideas Publishes Article - The Metaverse: From Science Fiction to Commercial Reality—Protecting Intellectual Property in the Virtual Landscape
ARELaw Alerts
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ARE Design Patent Alert: En Banc Decision in LXQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech. Brings The Law of Obviousness for Design Patent in Accord with KSR
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ARE Copyright Law Alert: Supreme Court Issues Ruling on Recovery of Damages Beyond the Copyright Act’s Three-Year Statute of Limitations
In The Press
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IAM Data & Analytics Reports Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein partners as being among the IAM Patent 1000
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Doug Miro and Charley Macedo to Speak at the New York State Bar Association Program on Emerging Trends in Intellectual Property: What IP Practitioners Need to Know About Non-Fungible Tokens
Certification/Specialties
- Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Bar Admissions
- United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1984
- New York State, 1986
- United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1988
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1990
Education
- New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, B.S., Ceramic Engineering, 1982
- University of New Hampshire School of Law, Formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center, J.D., 1985
Professional Associations & Memberships
- American Bar Association
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- American Ceramic Society and Executive Committee
- New York State Bar Association
- Intellectual Property Section – Co-Chair of Patent Section
Awards & Honors
- New York "Super Lawyers" for IP, 2006, 2009-2021 and 2023
- Recognized as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in the New York Metro Area 2015, 2016, 2019-2021 and 2023
- Keramos Honor Society, New York State College Of Ceramics at Alfred University 1981