Rose Auslander
Partner
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
Primary Areas of Practice: Ms. Auslander has represented The JRR Tolkien Estate, Marvel Characters, Inc., Playtex Products, Inc., Honeywell International Inc., and a variety of fashion and media clients in copyright, trademark, domain name, and other internet-related matters, and successfully negotiated a settlement with Hasbro, Inc. on behalf of the makers of the SCRABULOUS social networking game. As The New York Times reported on December 16, 2008: “Thanks to this agreement, neither Hasbro nor Scrabulous’ developers, RJ Software, have to face a long and expensive legal battle, and RJ Software can still offer Wordscraper and Lexulous.”
Law School / Graduate School: Ms. Auslander graduated magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, and was Articles editor of the New York University Law Review.
Work History: Prior to joining Carter Ledyard, Ms. Auslander was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and at Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.
Professional Memberships: She is Vice-Chair of the Publication Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and Co-Chair of the N.Y. Chapter of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Among other speaking engagements, she appeared as a panelist on Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues for the International Bar Association (IBA) conference in Prague (2005), as a panelist on file sharing issues at Center for International Legal Studies conferences in Boston and Little Rock (2005 and 2007), and is a four-time panelist on "Analysis of a Content License Agreement" for PLI in New York, NY (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009).