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Yonatan S. Shefa focuses on the development, protection, and commercialization of intellectual property and related complex business transactions. He assists with data and technology licensing, development, acquisition, maintenance, and servicing agreements, and drafts other agreements to protect and exploit technology and IP, including professional services agreements, nondisclosure and inventions assignments, IP licensing, trademark coexistence, work-for-hire, and independent contractor agreements.

Yonatan represents clients in commercial, copyright, and trademark litigation in state and federal courts, providing counsel on a range of IP-related issues.

He maintains an active pro bono practice, representing and counseling clients in religious discrimination, Violence Against Woman Act, and copyright matters.

In law school, Yonatan was a summer judicial intern for the Hon. Gerald Lebovits of the New York State Supreme Court.

  • New York University School of Law (Juris Doctor, cum laude)
    • Moot Court Board
    • Competitions Advocacy Editor
  • Yeshiva University (Bachelors, summa cum laude)
    • B.A., Psychology

  • State of New York
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Jewish Law Institute at Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Member, Advisory Board

Experience


Complex Trademark Infringement

Represented a publisher in significant litigation involving complex trademark infringement, copyright ownership, and contract claims adverse to a major university.*

*Attorney Shefa was counsel in this representative litigation prior to joining Robinson+Cole.

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Generative AI Litigation

Represented a visual media company in litigation against a generative AI company involving claims of copyright and trademark infringement.*

*Attorney Shefa was counsel in this representative litigation prior to joining Robinson+Cole.

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Mechanical Licensing Litigation

Represented a music streaming company in litigation pertaining to mechanical licensing.*

*Attorney Shefa was counsel in this representative litigation prior to joining Robinson+Cole.

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