Eleanor M. Lackman focuses on litigation, arbitration and counseling in copyright, trademark, digital media, entertainment and other intellectual property and commercial matters.

She has substantial litigation experience representing companies and individual clients in federal and state courts at all levels, and at all phases of litigation, from initial analysis through trial. Her intellectual property litigation practice encompasses contentious matters before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and domain name disputes before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

She also advises clients in the media, entertainment, technology, consumer products and luxury goods industries, on IP prosecution, licensing and enforcement matters, including anti-piracy, anti-counterfeiting and brand protection, as well as on matters relating to operations online, such as privacy, publicity, and endorsements.

SPEAKING AND PRESENTATIONS

Ms. Lackman is a frequent author and lecturer on intellectual property, media and technology issues.

Recent speaking engagements include:

• "Nets of Social Networks: Minimizing Legal Risk in Social Media" as part of Social Media Week 2012, February 16, 2012
• "IP Licensing Issues," at the "IP in Business Transactions 2012" conference at the Practising Law Institute, January 19, 2012
• "The New Frontier: Clouds," North American Entertainment, Sports and Intellectual Property Law Conference, November 12, 2011
• “The Copyright Enforcement Wars: Is a Truce in Sight?” Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Mid-Winter Meeting, February 5, 2010
• “Litigating a Trademark Infringement Dispute,” New York City Bar Association, May 12, 2009
• “Indecency and Obscenity in Today’s Radio Landscape,” Intercollegiate Broadcasting System 68th Annual International College Radio and Webcasting Conference, March 6, 2009

PUBLICATIONS

• Attorney-Client Privilege Under U.S. Law, INTA Bulletin, Vol. 66, No. 5, International Trademark Association, March 2011
• Factoring in the Public Interest: The Impact of eBay on Injunctive Relief in Copyright Cases, Bright Ideas (published by the New York State Bar Association’s IP Section), Winter 2010

ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

• Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Assistant Secretary and Trustee
• International Trademark Association (INTA), Internet Committee
• Media Law Resource Center, Litigation Committee
• Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy, Board of Advisors
• National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
• New York City Bar Association, Trademarks and Unfair Competition Committee (2006-2009)

EMPLOYMENT

• Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, 2011-Present
• Hogan Lovells US LLP, 2009-2011
• Arnold & Porter LLP, 2005-2009
• Loeb & Loeb LLP, 2003-2005

BAR ADMISSIONS

• New York
• U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York
• U.S. Supreme Court

EDUCATION

• J.D., Fordham University School of Law. Recipient of Hon. Milton Pollack Fellowship, Associate Editor of Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal
• A.B., magna cum laude, Rollins College