Attorney Details
MARC AARON MELZER
Associate
Marc Aaron Melzer focuses on intellectual property and information technology law, along with complex commercial litigation. Mr. Melzer’s practice includes IP and technology counseling and representation of individuals and institutions in litigation matters. Mr. Melzer’s experience includes litigation in both federal and state courts.
Mr. Melzer graduated from University of Pennsylvania Law School with a J.D. in 2005 and from Fordham University School of Law in 2010 with an LL.M. in intellectual property and information technology law. He served on the staff of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, for which he was Articles Editor. Mr. Melzer graduated from Princeton University in 2002 with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Mr. Melzer was previously an associate at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP in New York City, and a Research Fellow at Fordham’s Center on Law & Information Policy.
Mr. Melzer is the author of Copyright Enforcement in the Cloud, 21 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 403 (2011), and A Vintage Conflict Uncorked: The 21st Amendment, the Commerce Clause, and the Fully-Ripened Fight Over Interstate Wine and Liquor Sales, 7 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 279 (2004). He was also a contributor to WIPO-commissioned report An Analysis of the Economic/Legal Literature of the Effects of IP Rights as a Barrier to Entry, CDIP/4/4 REV./STUDY/INF/3 , (June 22, 2011), and a co-author of Codifying Shari’a: International Norms, Legality and the Freedom to Invent New Forms, 2 J. COMP. L. (UK) 1 (2007).
Mr. Melzer is admitted to practice in the State of New York, State of New Jersey, and the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and District of New Jersey. He is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Association and Copyright Society of the U.S.A. At the NYC Bar Association, Mr. Melzer is a member of the Information Technology Law Committee and the New Media & the Courtroom working group.
