Cooper & Dunham LLP

Cooper & Dunham LLP will be a benefactor sponsor at this year's 21st Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law & Policy at Fordham Law School on April 4th and 5th, 2013. 

Wendy Miller will be speaking at a session on Secondary and Collective Liability in Patents.  John White will serve as the moderator at a session entitled Gene Patents.

On February 11, 2013, Robert T. Maldonado, as Regional President of the Hispanic National Bar Association, introduced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at a press conference announcing the confirmation of Jenny Rivera to the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in the State of New York. 

For more details, visit:  http://www.governor.ny.gov/press/02112013Jenny-Rivera or http://livestre.am/4kXDm.

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On September 24, 2012, Wendy E. Miller attended the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, high-level meeting on the Rule of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers.

Wendy E. Miller spoke on Intellectual Property at the Hispanic National Bar Association's program on U.S. Supreme Court Review:  Impact on the Latino Community and Practitioners on Thursday, September 20, 2012.

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Robert T. Maldonado was recently elected President of the New York Region of the Hispanic National Bar Association.

This year Cooper & Dunham is celebrating its 125th Anniversary.  A history of the firm is available below.

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Cooper & Dunham sponsored a lecture by Judge Randall R. Rader, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, at Fordham Law Intellectual Property Law Institute on February 15, 2012.

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Wendy Miller presented "Contours of Induced Patent Infringement - New Views on Old Law" to the International Intellectual Property Society in New York City on Tuesday, January 24, 2012.

A decision was recently issued by the Federal Circuit in Aerotel v. Telco (Docket No. 2010-1515), in which the Federal Circuit affirmed the judgment of non-infringement in favor of our client, Telco Group, Inc.  A copy of the decision is attached. The firm represented Telco in this action since it was filed in 2004.  In this case, Plaintiff brought an action for infringement of a patent relating to a system and method for making prepaid telephone calls, and sought damages from Telco in the tens of millions of dollars.  After a claim construction hearing, the District Court construed all claims in favor Telco.  After consenting to entry of judgment in Telco’s favor, Aerotel then appealed the district court’s claim construction as to one claim only.  The Federal Circuit affirmed the portion of the claim construction which supported the judgment of non-infringement by Telco.  Also attached is an article appearing in IP360 today which  reports the decision.  The appeal was argued by Robert T. Maldonado with William E. Pelton and Tonia A. Sayour assisting on the briefs.

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