Areas of Expertise

Patent Prosecution

Trademark Prosecution

Copyright

Licensing and Technology Transfers

Counseling on Patent Validity, Infringement, and Freedom to Operate

Professional Summary
Lance Lieberman is a founding member of Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP. He has been practicing intellectual property law since 1976.

Mr. Lieberman’s practice covers all areas of intellectual property law in the electrical, electronic, mechanical, electromechanical, optic, telecommunications, business methods, and computer hardware and software arts. He has extensive experience in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the United States and throughout much of the world and in the preparation of studies relating to the infringement, validity and enforceability of patents. He also counsels clients concerning the acquisition, protection, commercialization, enforcement, and transfer of inventions, technology, and trade secrets and technical know-how and in the preparation, negotiation, and interpretation of license agreements. Additionally, he guides clients in the conduct of due diligence investigations relating to transfers and acquisitions of intellectual property assets; and counsels and advises them in the protection and implementation of technologies and processes relating to Internet-based e-commerce. Although the primary emphasis of his practice is in the area of patents, Mr. Lieberman also represents and assists clients in securing, enforcing, licensing and transfer of trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. He has also represented clients in pretrial proceedings and in oral and written arguments before State and Federal courts and before Examiners and various tribunals of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and other U.S. government agencies.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Lieberman was a Special Professor of Law at the Hofstra University School of Law. In addition, he assisted in curriculum development and taught for eight years in the Lawyers’ Assistants Program of Adelphi University. He has lectured for the New York State Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, the Licensing Executives Society, the New York Intellectual Property Law Association, and guest lectured in patents and trademarks at New York Law School.

Education
J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 1975
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1972
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1971

Admissions
New York
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Federal Circuits
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Memberships
New York State Bar Association
New York Intellectual Property Law Association

Articles
“Recapturing R&D Leadership,” Industry Week Cover Story

“IP Expert Advice: Tips on creating a lab notebook that contains "convincing evidence",” EDN-Electronic Business

Decisions
In re Les Halles De Paris J.V., 334 F.3d 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2003).

Nadel v. Isaksson, 321 F.3d 266 (2d Cir. 2003).