David Stein practices business law, with an emphasis on civil litigation and the law of trademarks and the Internet. He is a cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, where he concentrated in American studies, of George Mason University School of Law, where he was an Associate Justice on the Moot Court Board, and of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he obtained an advanced law degree (LL.M.) in intellectual property with a concentration in the law of trademarks and copyrights. While receiving his LL.M. degree, David was competitively selected for the prestigious Intellectual Property Externship Program in Trademark Law by the Colgate-Palmolive Company in New York City. Mr. Stein is a past member of the Committee on Trademarks and Unfair Competition of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Stein began his legal career as an associate at the Philadelphia firm of Shrager, McDaid, Loftus, Flum & Spivey, one of the top litigation firms in Pennsylvania, mainly representing claimants in massive multidistrict litigation in New York and Florida. While at Shrager, McDaid, David authored the winning brief before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in a products liability case involving the Amerada Hess Corporation, and his paper, "Standard of Care to Which Blood Banks are Held," was presented at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America AIDS Litigation Group annual meeting in 1993. Mr. Stein later founded his own law firm where he litigated scores of criminal cases ranging from misdemeanors to death-eligible felonies. David later was a partner at the Coleman Law Firm, P.C., where he represented clients in leading-edge trademark and copyright litigation in the federal courts and in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) as well as in domain name disputes before Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) tribunals. His cases involved issues such as nominative fair use, first sale doctrine, initial interest confusion, meta-tags, keywords, and dilution, especially in the context of on-line advertising. While at the Coleman firm, David also handled criminal matters arising out of infringement of intellectual property rights.

At the Stein Law Firm, Mr. Stein has continued his active intellectual property practice, advising and counseling corporate clients on a range of trademark matters, including the efficacy and clearance of proposed marks, likelihood of confusion, and potential infringement issues. Additionally, David has a vibrant trademark prosecution practice, assisting companies and individuals in filing trademark applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in responding to Office Actions. David currently represents corporate and individual opposers in massive, unprecedented inter partes proceedings before the TTAB and in Israel, Europe, and Canada. He also has drafted employee non-solicitation and non-competition agreements and executive employment contracts.

Mr. Stein is admitted to practice in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and in the state courts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and Illinois.

Contact David Stein at dstein@stein-firm.com