Robert Scheinfeld is the Partner-in-Charge of our New York office and served on the firm’s Executive Committee from 2008-2014; he also is the head of New York’s Intellectual Property Section and has been since 2003. For over thirty years, he has practiced intellectual property law and litigation almost exclusively, representing local and international companies as plaintiffs and defendants in patent, copyright and trade secret misappropriation disputes and lawsuits across the country. Mr. Scheinfeld’s litigation and trial representations have resulted in numerous favorable published and unpublished district court and Federal Circuit decisions.

Mr. Scheinfeld’s technical experience is diverse and his representations involve a broad range of fields in the high technology industry, including semiconductors, electronics, digital cameras, LCDs, FOTA (firmware-over-the-air), telecommunications, payment cards and systems, including smart and RF cards, electronic commerce, software and storage systems including flash memory.

Since 1995, Mr. Scheinfeld has been the bimonthly patent and trademark columnist for the New York Law Journal, and has published over 100 patent and trademark-related articles addressing the current hot topics of the day. Most of these articles are now accessible online and some are identified below.

From 1991 to 1997, Mr. Scheinfeld also taught patent law as an adjunct professor of law in New York City. He is a frequent speaker on patent-related topics ranging from opinions of counsel in patent cases to business method patents. Chambers and Partners quote a client as saying, “He is great on his feet: he talks to the judge and jury in a comprehensible way.”

Mr. Scheinfeld is also a member of the Litigation Counsel of America.