Bio

Seasoned Intellectual Property Attorney & Managing Partner of NYC based Bernstein IP, which counsels & represents clients both transactionally & in litigation matters on patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, Internet, First Amendment, defamation, and right of publicity matters. Bar Admissions: New York, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. The firm has enjoyed great successes over the years such as defending Johnson & Johnson’s failed attempt to transfer the domain name, Johnsons.com and representing Far Further, LLC, a music industry backed, New gTLD applicant for .Music, in two Objections brought by a competing applicant before the World Intellectual Property Organization in Switzerland and the International Centre for Expertise in France. The firm also represents a diverse group of clients involved in everything from the Internet to the legal Cannabis space. The firm's Managing Partner, Karen Bernstein, is a twice elected Director of the Board of the International Cannabis Bar association, a member of INTA, the Intellectual Property Constituency at ICANN, and the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Cannabis Law. Karen speaks and writes frequently about IP issues. Karen has also been featured by major news outlets such as Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, The PBS Nightly Business Report and the Fox US nationally syndicated talk radio show, The Leslie Marshall Show.