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Amy Goldsmith

Partner and Co-Chair of IP Department at
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Admitted Jurisdictions

New York

Practice Areas

Biography

Successful, profitable businesses share certain characteristics: immediately recognizable brands, desirable products or services, and a strategic plan which minimizes legal risks. As co-chair of the Intellectual Property Group at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, Amy B. Goldsmith partners with clients to provide practical legal advice and connections to grow their businesses. A strategic advisor, she guides clients in all stages of their development from idea conception and protection, to funding, manufacturing and enforcement. Copyrights and patents are an important part of a company’s strategy, and understanding when protection is likely (or not) to be granted is critical in the design process.

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Speaking Engagements

  • Architectural Works: Whose Line, Drawing or Plan Is It Anyway?
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    June 18, 2019
     Tarter Krinsky & Drogin

    Tarter Krinsky & Drogin IP Co-Chair and Partner Amy B. Goldsmith and Construction Partner Laurie Stanziale presented a CLE at the Firm. Before entering a negotiation, it is imperative for architects and real estate owners to understand how copyright protection intersects with architectural works. Failure to recognize boundaries may lead to litigation over whether an architect may use the plans again or whether a developer may modify the plans if the architect’s services are terminated before the project is finished. Some of the most heavily negotiated points in an architect’s agreement include which party owns copyright rights to the line, drawing or plan, and who can use them. This two-part series will explore what is covered by copyright, who owns that copyright, the implications of an assignment of rights or a license between an owner and architect, and what happens when there is no owner-architect agreement or the agreement does not address these issues. We will also discuss how the courts have treated oral and written licenses and review some common litigation issues.

  • Preserving Trade Secrets and Confidential Information and the Perils of Social Media: What a C-Suite Executive Needs to Know
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    June 11, 2019
     Vistage Meetings

    Amy B. Goldsmith, Esq., Co-Chair of the IP Group at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, has presented to three Vistage Groups regarding how to create a program to protect confidentiality and trade secrets, instruct employees regarding their obligations, implement best practices and the perils of social media. Amy has also reviewed privacy obligations under NY’s current law and new proposals, the GDPR, and California’s upcoming new law.

  • Protecting Confidentiality and Trade Secrets and the Perils of Social Media
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    June 11, 2019
     Tarter Krinsky & Drogin

    For a TKD CLE, Amy joined Litigation Partner and co-chair of Securities and Financial Services Litigation Group Richard Schoenstein to discuss how to create a program to protect confidentiality and trade secrets, implement best practices and the perils of social media. They also reviewed recent cases involving allegations of breaches of confidentiality and thefts of trade secrets by departing employees.

  • Preserving Trade Secrets and Confidential Information and the Perils of Social Media
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    June 06, 2019
     ACEC NY

    Amy B. Goldsmith, Esq., Co-Chair of the IP Group at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, has presented to the ACECNY LCF regarding how to create a program to protect confidentiality and trade secrets, instruct employees regarding their obligations, implement best practices and the perils of social media. Amy also reviewed privacy obligations under NY’s current law and new proposals, the GDPR, and California’s upcoming new law.

  • TedX Times Square
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    April 10, 2013
     Times Center, 242 West 41st Street, NY, NY

    The Legal Limits of Openness

  • How to Market Through Celebrities: Publicity Rights in the USA
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    Pullman London St. Pancras, 100-110 Euston Road, London, UK

    How to Market Through Celebrities: Publicity Rights in the USA

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Articles & Publications

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    Copyright Protection for Jewelry Seems Tangled

    February 26, 2019

    Tarter Krinsky & Drogin Intellectual Property co-chair Amy Goldsmith authored an article featured in Law360 titled, “Copyright Protection For Jewelry Seems Tangled.” In the article, Amy discusses registering copyrights for jewelry, which has become increasingly difficult based on recent trends in the U.S. Copyright Office. “Without copyright registration,” Amy explains, “jewelry designers must evaluate whether their pieces are protectable under a trade dress theory, but that is a much more nuanced argument to make. Copiers and social media may ignore the trade dress argument — leaving the damaging infringements available for sale, littering the social media landscape, and diminishing the value of the original pieces.” Amy goes on to say that the U.S. Copyright Office’s current interpretation of originality and creativity in jewelry design is “tangling copyright protection for jewelry. Armed with this information, jewelry designers may look at the process of design through a new lens — the ability of the jewelry to achieve copyright registration.”

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    Amy Goldsmith’s iPoems, Patent Law Edition

    December 05, 2018

    Fun poems to explain patent law

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    Whose Line, Drawing or Plan Is It Anyway?

    September 19, 2016

    Tarter Krinsky & Drogin IP Co-Chair and Partner Amy B. Goldsmith and Construction Partner Laurie Stanziale contributed a 2-party article to Law360 in 2016. Before entering a negotiation, it is imperative for architects and real estate owners to understand how copyright protection intersects with architectural works. Failure to recognize boundaries may lead to litigation over whether an architect may use the plans again or whether a developer may modify the plans if the architect’s services are terminated before the project is finished. Some of the most heavily negotiated points in an architect’s agreement include which party owns copyright rights to the line, drawing or plan, and who can use them. This two-part series will explore what is covered by copyright, who owns that copyright, the implications of an assignment of rights or a license between an owner and architect, and what happens when there is no owner-architect agreement or the agreement does not address these issues. We will also discuss how the courts have treated oral and written licenses and review some common litigation issues. Read more at: https://www.law360.com/articles/836936/whose-line-drawing-or-plan-is-it-anyway-part-1?copied=1

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Professional Memberships

  • New York Women's Bar Association (Vice President, Co-Chair, CLE Committee, Member Judiciary Committee)

    2008

  • Savvy Ladies (Secretary)

    2002

  • International Trademark Association

    1990

  • American Bar Association

    1987

Education

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University

    JD, cum laude (1985)

  • Cornell University

    Bachelor of Science (1982)

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