Mr. Lowenfeld is a 1990 graduate of New York University School of Law having obtained his magna cum laude Bachelors Degree from Harvard University, and Columbia University School of Law (USSR Law Program).

From 1991-present, he is a solo practitioner, specializing in copyright and commercial litigation, often related to Russia and the C.I.S. or Western Europe.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION

• Extensive practice with: Federal discovery depositions, summary judgment motions, sanctions and contempt proceedings, and Federal appellate work involving intellectual property.
• Obtained $17.5M judgment for copyright infringement against weekly publication Israel Shelanu on behalf of Ha’aretz and Maariv, leading Israeli daily newspapers.
• Obtained preliminary and permanent injunctions and $950,000 in damages and attorneys fees in first courtroom case concerning Russian copyright law ever tried in the USA.
• Gained multimillion dollar judgments on behalf of major Russian film studios, and their licensees, including Mosfilm, Lenfilm, and Soyuzmultfilm Studios against copyright pirates in the USA.
• Litigated and settled Lanham Act cases involving phone cards to Russian and Eastern Europe.
• Successfully litigated and settled a Lanham Act claim on behalf of an Austro-Italian shoe manufacturing enterprise, assisted in registering their trademarks and combating counterfeiting.
• Defended successfully against a Lanham Act false advertising claim.
• Successfully conducted cyberpiracy cases.
• Sucessfully conducted trademark opposition proceedings.
• Assistance in cases dealing with musical copyrights and Russian and Spanish recording studios, recording artists, musical producers, and music publishers.
• Defeated preliminary injunctions over copyrights to musical score.

• Extensive consulting on Russian law, particularly 1996 Civil Code, 1964 RSFSR Civil Code, Corporate & Joint Venture law,  and 1993 Copyright Law  of Russia.

• Extensive consultation on copyright, trademark, cyberpiracy matters.

• Consulted Japanese Internet sites, including “virtual video stores” on fair use/licensing issues, and on licensing and distribution agreements.
• Consulted on copyright issues to SGAE and SEEMSA  (Spanish equivalents of ASCAP).
• Consulted producer of the acclaimed Russian film Prisoner of the Mountains on copyright law and licensing and distribution matters.
• Consulted Mosfilm Studios, Moscow, and re Uruguay Round, registration of classics of Russian cinema and animated film.
• Extensive negotiation, contractual assistance of Russian importers of coffee and footwear from Latin America. Pre-arbitration settlement of contract disputes.
• Technology licensing agreements for Russian inventor of improved metal alloying process for US automotive and aviation industry, including a project to provide a camless engine for Ford Motor Company.
• Successful litigation as well as negotiation of licensing agreements on behalf of major Russian/multinational water filter and water purification systems group of companies.

COMMERCIAL  PRACTICE

• Successful litigation and transactional work on behalf of a major Austro-Italian shoe producer.
• Successful litigation in Moscow Commercial Courts on behalf of American real estate developer.
• Judgment enforcement, freezing of assets, and obtaining charging liens.
• Consulted Caravan Group (largest publishing group in Central Asia, owners of over 20 Central Asian newspapers, and the Yellow Pages of Kazakhstan) in obtaining financing for $5M investment in Joint Venture “Franklin” Central Asia’s first privately owned printing plant from Central-Asian American Enterprise Fund.
• Assisted major Ukrainian research/pharmaceutical concerns) in negotiating various licensing agreements with the Japanese multinational conglomerate Marubeni.
• Extensive drafting of briefs for summary judgments and motions to dismiss in general litigation.
• Represent clients in mediations, arbitrations, judicial settlement conferences, post-judgment enforcement actions, fraudulent conveyance actions, and turnover petitions.

STATE  COURT WORK

• General commercial litigation in New York State Supreme Court, and Civil Court in New York City.
• Post-judgment enforcement, fraudulent conveyance actions, turnover petitions.
• Tortious interference, non-circumvention, trade secret claims.
• Libel and slander cases.
• Contractual litigation, arbitration, lien enforcement.
• Appeals
• Criminal cases (generally in cases involving immigration consequences, usually probono).

IMMIGRATION

Extensive immigration litigation before Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals.  Federal writs of mandamus.  Extensive petition/adjustment practice.

Labor certifications, national interest waivers, I-140, EB-1, entrepreneur cases.

Administrative hearings before INS, Department of State, consular posts.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

• Fluent  English, Russian, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. Proficient Portuguese.
• Reading knowledge of Latin.
• Extensive study and travel in Russia & C.I.S., U.K., Western and Eastern Europe, Central and South America.

LEGAL TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION

• Translations from German into English of Austrian legal decisions and Austrian Civil Procedure Code provisions for international trademark law firm.
• Qualified summit-meeting level simultaneous interpreter, both English-Russian and Russian- English.
• Simultaneous interpretation at several summit meetings between US Supreme Court Justices and Russian Constitutional Court Justices.
• Interpreted for Russian reformers Stanislav Shatalin, Grigory Yavlinsky during the “500 Days Plan”  meetings about unimplemented reforms proposed for the Soviet economy.
• Interpreter at arms control negotiations in Moscow, Washington.
• Court interpretation (consecutive) Spanish-English/English-Spanish.
• Translated for St. Petersburg’s Mayor, the late Anatoly Sobachak, during his visits to the US.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

• Creative writing: plays, poems, songs, short stories.
• Member of New York Dramatists Guild, New York Actor’s Institute, New York Player’s Club.
• Winner of Russia’s Petropol Prize for literary achievement in 2010
• Author of Nonetheless, a book of love poetry, containing original verse and prose poems and meditations, as well as translated verse of Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Blok, Mandelshtam, Tsvetayeva, Akhmatova, Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Rilke, Goethe, Heine, Machado, Martí, Pessoa, Leopardi, Ungharetti, Dante, Catullus, Ovid, and Horace.
• Author of  My Talisman, The Lyric Poetry of Alexander Pushkin, over 160 poems by Russia’s national bard, and extensive excerpts from Eugene Onegin, plus a detailed biography of the poet and an introduction and commentary.
• Author, сomposer of Thanksgiving, a musical play.
• Translator, composer of music for Alexander Pushkin’s Little Tragedies (world premiere was staged in New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center in November 2009)
• Translator of the New York Times “Critic’s Choice” 4 DVD set, “Animated Soviet Propaganda”.
• Translator of Eldar Ryazanov’s film Andersen, A Life without Love (Mosfilm Studios).
• Translator of Julio Cortázar’s Farewell Robinson and Nothing to Pehaujó (staged 2004, by New York’s Steps Theatre Company)
• Author, Kafka for Beginners, a one act “dark comedy”.
• Author of over 150 poems.
• Translated verse of Lermontov, Blok, Mandelshtam, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Rilke, Goethe, Heine, A. Machado, Martí, Neruda, Leopardi, Petrarch, Dante, Catullus, Ovid, Martial, and Horace.
• Sports: Swimming, Hiking, Martial arts.
• Musical Instruments: piano, guitar.