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| Practice Areas
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard has represented and counseled clients in the areas of entertainment law, publishing, art law, copyright, trademark, and litigation for about twenty years. |
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Trademark
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard provides a complete range of services to clients concerning their
trademarks. Our attorneys advise clients on trademark selection, adoption,
use and registration, brand development, and dispute resolution. We
manage portfolios of trademarks for our clients, and work regularly
with the U.S. Trademark Office in the registration of trademarks and
in opposition and cancellation proceedings.
We assist clients in establishing licensing programs of their trademarks
in areas as diverse as adult clothing and children’s toys, and
we represent licensees seeking to expand their businesses with licensed
properties.
Where necessary we protect our clients’ properties against rights
infringers through vigorous negotiation and litigation. Our prosecution
and protection practice has become worldwide, and we work with correspondent
law firms throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America. |
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Our clients in trademark
matters include a multinational paper products company, a nationwide
clothing retailer, and a children’s television producer. |
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Zehra Abdi practices primarily in the areas of copyright, trademark, transactional, entertainment law, and litigation. Prior to joining Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, she was with the firm of Wolff & Godin, LLP, where she worked closely with Nancy Wolff in matters involving copyright, trademark, licensing, art law, digital media, rights of publicity, privacy and libel and commercial/corporate transactions. |
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Jean Albert’s practice focuses on general corporate law, IP, competition and international law. He advises companies, governments and NGOs on transactions that involve international legal issues. He has experience in over 90 countries assisting clients in international joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions and the expansion of their activities abroad. . |
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Anne C. Baker is a transactional attorney in the areas of intellectual property and entertainment law with a focus on digital media, publishing, television, film, copyright, trademark, and music law. |
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Toby Butterfield is an experienced litigator who handles intellectual property, copyright, trademark and general commercial cases in federal and state courts. He also counsels clients on various non-litigated matters. He is the Chair of the Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and a member of the Community Advisory Board of WNYC, New York's Public Radio station. |
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Al J. Daniel, Jr. is a trial and appellate litigator with substantial experience in copyrights, trademarks, entertainment law, artists’ rights, and commercial law. He served as a trial and appellate attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and New York City, where he drafted briefs, presented argument in all federal courts of appeals, drafted briefs and petitions with the Solicitor General’s Office for cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also involved in entertainment-related transactions. |
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Hayden M. Goldblatt is a transactional attorney practicing primarily in the areas of entertainment, copyright, and trademark law, including film, television, theater and digital media. He graduated cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 2008. While there, he interned with Kimmel International, the foreign sales agency of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and since January 2007 with Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP. Prior to law school, Hayden worked as Assistant to the Producers for Robert Altman’s Sandcastle 5 Productions. |
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Albert Gottesman has concentrated in transactional matters in the various entertainment fields and in copyright and trademark licensing for most of his career. He has represented television and motion picture production companies, writers, directors and producers, and clients in music production and publishing, live theatre and book publishing. |
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Matthew A. Kaplan is a litigator who practices primarily in the areas of copyright, trademark and commercial litigation. He has represented companies in the computer sales, computer consulting and pharmaceutical industries. |
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Christopher J. Marino practices primarily in the areas of copyright, trademark and commercial litigation. Mr. Marino has experience litigating trademark and copyright disputes in the luxury good and fashion markets. In addition, he has gained expertise policing counterfeit and gray market sales of goods both online and in retail stores. |
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Mitchell Radin, the head of our trademark practice, is well-known in the trademark field. He was recently elected by the International Bar Association for inclusion in Who's Who Legal USA — Trademarks 2006. |
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M. Kilburg Reedy is a transactional attorney in the areas of intellectual property and entertainment law, including publishing, film, television, copyright, trademark, and music, with a specialization in theater contracts and financing. |
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Josh Sessler has been practicing for over ten years at large New York law firms and has worked in private practice and as general counsel for several digital communications and media companies. Josh has specific expertise in Digital Media, Corporate, Entertainment, Trademark and Copyright Law. |
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Steven Weinberg, of our West Coast office, is a leading litigator and transactional lawyer in the areas of branding and trademarks; brand, content and celebrity licensing, sponsorship and endorsements; copyrights and digital rights; branded entertainment; employment and trade secret issues; publishing; software and online technology deals and licensing; online television deals; domain name protection and enforcement; IP and digital rights management; and direct response, advertising and promotion in all media. |
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Nancy E. Wolff practices primarily in intellectual property and digital media law. Clients include trade associations Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) and PLUS, Inc., stock photo libraries, individual photographers, authors, illustrators, designers, publishers and digital media companies. She counsels clients in copyright, trademarks, licensing, contract, rights of publicity and privacy and libel. In addition to transactional work, she represents clients in arbitration hearings as well as state and federal court civil actions. |
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