Robert L. Epstein

Bob is a founding partner of the firm and has over forty years of experience counseling clients in a wide variety of industries on a broad spectrum of legal and business issues related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and unfair competition. He has advised clients of all sizes, from the single inventor to successive generations of family-owned businesses and multi-division national industrial and pharmaceutical companies. Bob recognizes the value of building long term relationships with his clients that allow him to learn their businesses and goals, and to understand the technologies they need to achieve success. Many of his clients have remained with him over the length of his career.

Bob has represented high tech companies involved in the development of circuitry and fabrication methods for digital memories and OLED displays, manufacturers of medical devices, anti-theft security systems, laboratory glassware, residential and commercial steam generators, and camera lenses for the motion picture industry. He has also worked with many apparel clients including leading companies in the bridal, underwear, and footwear areas, suppliers to the garment and dry cleaning trades including manual and automatic tagging equipment, a leading manufacturer of thermogravimetric analyzers, the world’s leading producer of lubricants, as well as toy companies, jewelry manufacturers, infomercial companies, optical companies, home fashion product suppliers, book publishers, a national provider of funeral services and an internationally known rock group.

Admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 1973, Bob has drafted and prosecuted hundreds of U.S. and foreign patent applications in many different technical fields. He handles examiner interviews, re-examinations, and appeals in the patent office. He also counsels clients on patentability, patent infringement, and licensing issues. Bob has also been responsible for maintaining and policing domestic and foreign trademark portfolios. He provides opinions on trademark and copyright registration, infringement, and licensing, and advises clients on trade dress and unfair competition issues. He also provided opinions on intellectual property issues for IPOs and due diligence for intellectual property acquisitions

Bob has extensive litigation experience in the federal district and appeals courts in New York and other districts with regard to patent, trademark, trade dress, and unfair competition issues, including multiple patent infringement actions in the telecommunications area as well as offensive and defensive cases involving design of apparel, home fashion, and consumer products.

In his free time, Bob enjoys boating, spending time with his wife and children, and playing with his grandchildren.