David P. Miranda, a Partner with the firm, is an experienced trial attorney whose intellectual property law practice includes trademark, copyright, trade secret, false advertising, and patent infringement, as well as licensing, and internet related issues. He has litigated cases in federal district courts, state courts, the International Trade Commission, and the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board. In 2006 he obtained a $7.8 million jury verdict in a copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation case in U.S. district court. He has successfully argued before the Federal Circuit, Second Circuit and New York Court of Appeals.

Mr. Miranda serves as an Arbitrator of intellectual property disputes and has rendered decisions regarding disputes involving such famous trademarks as McDonald's, Amazon.com, Bausch & Lomb, Target, 3M, US News, Citigroup, and ChevronTexaco.  Mr. Miranda commenced some of the first domain name dispute proceedings before the World Intellectual Property Organization and was counsel in one of the first New York cases determining the enforceability of online agreements.

In 2009, Mr. Miranda was appointed to the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission for the Third Judicial District of the State of New York. In 2002, Mr. Miranda was appointed by Hon. Judith Kaye, Chief Judge of New York's Court of Appeals, to the statewide “Commission on Public Access to Court Records.”  He has served as President of the Albany County Bar Association, in the House of Delegates for the ABA and NYSBA, and on the NYSBA's Executive Committee. He served as Editor-in-chief and contributing author of The Internet Guide for New York Lawyers, published in 1999 and 2005, and is the author of Defamation in Cyberspace: Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., published by the Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology, in 1996.   He is a recipient of the Capital District Business Review's “40 Under Forty” award for community service and professional achievement.

Mr. Miranda received his Juris Doctor degree from Albany Law School and Bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is admitted to practice in New York, U.S. District Courts for New York's Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts, Massachusetts, the Federal Circuit, Second Circuit and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Member: American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section; New York State Bar Association (House of Delegates, Executive Committee); Albany County Bar Association (President, Board of Directors).

Publications: Editor-in-Chief and contributing author: Internet Guide for New York Lawyers NYSBA, 1999 and 2005; Author: Defamation in Cyberspace: Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology, 1996.