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Areas of Practice: Trademark litigation; trademark prosecution; intellectual property; Internet, social media, and new media law
Professional Experience: Mr. Suzan focuses his practice on helping clients establish and protect their brands through both traditional trademark strategies and new-media branding techniques. His experience includes prosecuting and defending trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; representing and counseling clients on federal trademark litigation matters; managing and supervising foreign trademark agents in international oppositions, cancellation actions, and infringement proceedings; advising clients on the availability and commercial advisability of proposed trademarks; counseling clients on all facets of trademark clearance, prosecution, infringement, licensing, domain name, and Internet and new media matters; preparing, filing, and defending proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy; drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements for a wide range of Internet services; and advising clients on enforcement policies for worldwide protection against counterfeiting activities. Before joining Hodgson Russ, Mr. Suzan was an attorney at a prominent firm in New York City.
Publications: Mr. Suzan is the author of numerous articles on topics in his areas of concentration, including "Tweets, Friends, and Virtual Handshakes: Strategies for Navigating Web 2.0," published by Thomson Reuters in Client Times Online, and "Legal Strategies in the Age of Social Networking" and "Expand Your Brand Into the U.S.," both published in The Lawyers Weekly. He is also the author of "Tapping to the Beat of a Digital Drummer: Fine Tuning U.S. Copyright Law for Music Distribution on the Internet," published in the Albany Law Review; he received first prize from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) for this article. At Albany Law School of Union University, Mr. Suzan was the managing editor of lead articles for the Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology.
Professional Associations: Member, board of advisors, Intellectual Property Counselor, New York State Bar Association; member, International Trademark Association
Community Activities: President and chair, board of directors, Buffalo Arts Studio; member, board of directors, Mid-Day Club (Buffalo)
Honors/Awards: While attending Albany Law School, Mr. Suzan received the Nathan Burkan Memorial Writing Competition Award.
Bar Associations: New York State Bar Association, United States District Courts of the Southern/Eastern Districts of New York, United States District Courts for the Northern/Western Districts of New York, New York County Lawyers' Association, American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Section, Bar Association of Erie County
Admitted to Practice: New York State
Practice restricted to U.S. law
Education:B.A., magna cum laude, University of RochesterJ.D., cum laude, Albany Law School of Union UniversityLL.M., New York University School of Law
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