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ALLEN I. RUBENSTEIN
 

Principal
arubenstein@grr.com

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Education
City College of New York, B.S., cum laude, 1962
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (Physics), 1967
Boston University Law School, J.D., 1974
Phi Beta Kappa
Boston University Law Review, editor

Admissions
New York Bar, 1975
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1975
Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1975
Northern District of New York, 1976
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1975
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 1982
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1982
U.S. Supreme Court, 1999

Allen Rubenstein specializes in patent, software copyright, and trade secret litigation and prosecution, particularly involving advanced technology. His many technical specialties include electronics, physics, mechanics, physical optics, computer technology, mathematics, and Internet applications. A former postdoctoral fellow in physics at the Weitzmann Institute in Israel and a former postdoc at Stanford University, Dr. Rubenstein has taught physics and mathematics at the college level.

Professional Affiliations
American Physical Society
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on Science
International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property
ITC Trial Lawyers Association
New York Intellectual Property Law Association
New York State Bar Association

Selected Publications

"Basic Research Held Unpatentable," GRR Intellectual Property News (May 2010).

"Ignorance of Patent not a Defense to Charge of Inducing Another to Infringe," GRR Intellectual Property News (April 2010).