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, marketing and enforcement. Leading fashion, retail and manufacturing companies regularly call on Doug for strategic advice on the establishment, maintenance and defense of their intellectual property programs.
Armed with deep technical and legal expertise, Doug litigates patent, trademark, 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.
Doug also helps clients create intellectual property assets and strategic IP portfolios that deliver lasting business value. He counsels businesses including hospitals and other health care providers on a broad range of intellectual property issues, including establishing intellectual property programs, licensing and technology transfer matters.
Doug was named one of Super Lawyers’ Top 100 Metro lawyers in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021 in the intellectual property area and has been listed in the main Super Lawyers’ list for the past 14 years.
Armed with deep technical and legal expertise, Doug litigates patent, trademark, 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.
Doug also helps clients create intellectual property assets and strategic IP portfolios that deliver lasting business value. He counsels businesses including hospitals and other health care providers on a broad range of intellectual property issues, including establishing intellectual property programs, licensing and technology transfer matters.
Doug was named one of Super Lawyers’ Top 100 Metro lawyers in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021 in the intellectual property area and has been listed 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 USPTO Alert: USPTO Adopts Shorter Deadline to Respond to Office Actions for Trademark Applications
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ARE PTAB Alert: Federal Circuit Corrects Law on IPR Estoppel to Also Apply to All Grounds Not in IPR But Could Have Been Included
Updated February 24, 2022
In The Press
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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
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13 ARE Law Lawyers Named to 2021 New York Metro Super Lawyers List
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.
- Recognized as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in the New York Metro Area 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
- Keramos Honor Society, New York State College Of Ceramics at Alfred University 1981