R. Kunstadt, P.C.

ROBERT KUNSTADT established the firm R. Kunstadt, P.C. to provide prompt, innovative and effective IP service. The firm achieves this by applying technology strategically to leverage the skills of a select, closely-coordinated staff. The practice includes patent, trademark, copyright and antitrust trials, foreign and international litigation strategy, and worldwide IP portfolio licensing and management. Solving difficult cases that need thoughtful study, without requiring a large litigation staff, is the firm's forte.

Mr. Kunstadt has litigated jury and non-jury cases involving chemistry, pharmaceuticals, software and mechanical engineering. He has experience in the economics of damages calculation for IP infringement, and served on the successful defense of the damages phase of the leading patent case Windsurfing v. BIC. A graduate of Yale University and the UCLA School of Law, Mr. Kunstadt was a postgraduate Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Patent, Copyright & Competition Law, in Munich, Germany. From 1978 to 1997, he practiced at New York's Pennie & Edmonds as an associate and partner. His November 1998 article in The National Law Journal, "Sneak Attack on U.S. Inventiveness," forecast the trend to business method patents.

Ilaria Maggioni is a member of the bar in New York and Italy. She has law degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pisa (Italy); and attended the London School of Economics.

Mr. Kunstadt was editor-in-chief of the International Trademark Association's legal journal The Trademark Reporter in 2006-2007; he contributed to its 100th anniversary issue. Both he and Ms. Maggioni are on the editorial board.

Exemplary matters include:

• Patent litigation / OCR software / San Francisco
• Trademark litigation / T-shirts / New York
• Patent litigation / Pharma / New York
• Trademark litigation / Online keyword ads / Detroit
• Copyright search and advice / Italian films / US Copyright Office
• Trademark application / Financial services / US, Europe, Japan, Australia