James Weinberger

Practice Areas

Litigation

Copyright

Trademark

Social Media/Domain Names

Design

Publicity & Privacy

Transactions

Career

James D. Weinberger is an accomplished litigator who helps clients protect, enforce, and manage their brands and copyrightable content. For clients including global and national brands, James advises on copyright, trademark, and trade-dress infringement, as well as unfair competition, false-advertising, trademark-dilution, right-of-publicity, First Amendment, and internet-related matters.

James seeks remedies for clients through federal and state court litigation, mediation, arbitration, administrative litigation in the TTAB, and UDRP proceedings in the World Intellectual Property Organization. He counsels clients on copyright and trademark enforcement strategy, execution, portfolio management, clearance, and negotiates trademark and copyright licenses, coexistence and settlement agreements.

James represents established and startup clients across diverse industries, including apparel, personal care products, beverages, cosmetics, financial and professional services, sports, pharmaceuticals, publishing, and software.

Professional Memberships

INTA (Member, Copyright Committee, 2022-23; Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee, 2020-21; Judicial Administration and Trademark Litigation Subcommittee, 2014-15)

Member, IP Subcommittee of Sports Law Committee, New York City Bar Association (2020-present)

Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG) (Associate Member)

Federal Bar Council (Member, IP Committee)

American Bar Association (Member, IP Law Section)

New York State Bar Association (Member, IP Law Section)

Columbia Law School Association (Director, 2010-2015)