Douglas A. Miro
Top rated intellectual property attorney in New York, New York
Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP
Practice Areas: Intellectual property, Intellectual property litigation; view more
Licensed in New York since: 1986
Education: University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law
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Douglas A. Miro is a skilled intellectual property (IP) law attorney who serves as a partner at the law firm of Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP. He accepts clients from all over New York including Kings, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. He brings great knowledge and experience to inventors and businesses seeking IP law services both domestically and internationally.
Mr. Miro recognizes how critical the protection of intellectual property is to a business’s persistence and bottom line. Over his 37 years as an IP attorney, he has provided IP assistance for clients ranging from startup companies to giant corporations in a broad spectrum of industries such as health care, information technology, electronics, entertainment, fashion, toys, finance, ceramics, blockchain and artificial intelligence. He handles matters related to copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, licensing, patents, litigation, anti-counterfeiting, false advertising and more.
After graduating from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University with a bachelor’s degree in ceramic engineering in 1982, Mr. Miro received his J.D. from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law in 1985. He is licensed to practice in New York (1986), the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is also registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A co-chair of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), Mr. Miro holds active memberships in the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the American Ceramic Society and the NYSBA’s Intellectual Property Section.
A passionate writer, Mr. Miro has written extensively on IP laws and has published articles for the New York Law Journal and Bright Ideas. He has also presented a seminar on “Emerging Trends in Intellectual Property” sponsored by the NYSBA.
Practice areas
Intellectual property, Intellectual property litigationFocus areas
Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual property law
- 50% Intellectual property
- 50% Intellectual property litigation
First Admitted: 1986, New York
Professional Webpage: https://www.arelaw.com/professional/miro/
- , New York "Super Lawyers" for IP, 2006, 2009-2022
- Keramos Honor Society, New York State College Of Ceramics at Alfred University 1981
- Recognized as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in the New York Metro Area 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2021
- Keramos Honor Society, 1981
- Chair, Patent Committee of the IP Section of the New York State Bar Association
- Intellectual Property Section Co-Chair of Patent Section
- American Ceramic Society and Executive Committee
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- American Bar Association
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1990
- United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1988
- New York State, 1986
- United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1984
- New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, B.S., Ceramic Engineering, 1982
- Registered to Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1984
- Litigant ML Genius Holdings filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari asking " Does the Copyright Act's preemption clause allow a business to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use its content?" The petition was filed to resolve a Circuit split on the preemption issue between the Fifth, Seventh, Eight, Eleventh and Federal Circuit on one side and the Second and Sixth Circuits on the other. A decision on whether the petition will be granted will not be known until well into 2023., Co-Author, Appeal of the Second Circuit's ML Genius Holdings LLC v Google LLC May Resolve a Circuit Split on Copyright Act Preemption Tests, Bright Ideas, VOL.31, N0.2, Software, E-Commerce, Entertainment, Any Industry In General That Benefits From Having Copyrights, 2022
- NYSBA Bright Ideas Publishes Article - The Metaverse: From Science Fiction to Commercial Reality—Protecting Intellectual Property in the Virtual Landscape
- Douglas A. Miro and Brian Cormack Publish New York Law Journal Article on “Practical Considerations for "Virtual" Oral Argument Before the Second Circuit During the Pandemic" New York Law Journal, May 20, 2020
- Ceramics
- Consumer Products
- Cosmetics
- Electrical
- Fashion And Retail
- Healthcare
- Mechanical
- medical devices and Internet-related technologies
- Refractories
- Steel Making
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- Super Lawyers: 2006, 2009 - 2022
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