Goldstein Law Offices, P.C.

Focus and the work it takes on

The firm works only in intellectual property, and its clients are individuals, start-ups and entrepreneurs. On the patent side, it covers a wide span of technical categories: utility, design, provisional, software, medical, chemical, electronics, business method and mechanical patents. That range suggests Goldstein Patent Law reads across many engineering and product types.

The firm also handles trademark registration and related filings, copyright protection, and international intellectual property protection. It names two areas tied to enforcement as well: intellectual property litigation and Amazon enforcement matters. Holding both the filing work and the enforcement work means a client can keep a dispute with the same people who secured the right.

Who runs the practice

Rich Goldstein founded the firm and carries the title Founder and Principal Patent Attorney. His background starts in engineering, with an electrical engineering degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, earned in 1991. He then took a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School.

His admissions give a clear timeline. He was admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1993, then before New York state and local courts in 1995. That order, patent bar first, fits a career built around prosecuting patents from early on.

The associate attorneys

Three associate patent attorneys work with the founder: Julian Gonzalez, Thomas Weifan Mon and Alexis Nelson. All four hold the patent-attorney title, which means the people on a matter are qualified to practice before the patent office. For a firm that files across many technical categories, having several such attorneys spreads that work. In practice, a structure like this lets routine drafting and office-action responses move through the associate team, with the principal attorney setting direction.

What the record shows

The firm states more than 25 years of work in patent law. It also states that its work has resulted in more than 2,000 patents. As a reviewer, I read those two numbers together: a quarter century of filings and a four-figure patent count line up with a practice that has held to the same track.

The site does not list an exact founding year, so the 25-year figure is what anchors the firm's history here. In my opinion, the patent count is the more useful number for a prospective client, because it speaks to the volume of granted work behind the practice.

How this kind of work generally moves

Patent work runs through the United States Patent and Trademark Office. An application goes to a patent examiner, who may issue office actions that the attorney answers before a patent can be granted. That back and forth can run over months or years, which is part of why a track record measured in decades carries weight.

Trademark registration runs on a separate track at the same office, with its own examination and a window for others to oppose a mark. Copyright protection generally attaches when a work is created and can be reinforced by registration. International protection usually means coordinating filings across national offices, often through treaty systems that let one filing reach many countries.

Sorting the patent categories

The categories the firm names split along familiar lines. A utility patent covers how something works, its function or method, while a design patent covers how a product looks. Software and business method patents belong to the utility group and often draw closer examination on what counts as patentable subject matter. A client with a medical device, for one, can seek protection for both the mechanism and the shape from the same firm.

Provisional applications, which the firm lists, give an early filing date and buy time before a full utility application follows. That early date can matter when more than one inventor is working in the same area. It gives an applicant room to keep developing while a claim to priority is on file.

When protection turns into a dispute

Amazon enforcement runs through a different channel. It generally uses the platform's own brand and complaint programs, where a registered trademark often unlocks the tools a seller uses to challenge counterfeit or infringing listings. That link between a registered mark and the takedown tools is why filing and enforcement tend to travel together.

Intellectual property litigation is the wider setting for a dispute. It generally moves through federal court, where a rights holder can ask for the infringing activity to stop and can seek damages. Holding both the platform route and the court route gives the firm two ways to press a claim.

Where the firm reaches

The firm keeps a New York City office and a second office in Red Bank, New Jersey. It describes its patent services as available nationwide. Because patent prosecution happens before a federal office, a firm can act for clients across the country, and the nationwide framing fits that. The two offices are in the same metropolitan region, and the nationwide framing points to remote work for clients elsewhere.

The firm states that intellectual property is its only focus. In my opinion, that single area of practice is worth weighing for anyone whose main need is a patent, a trademark or a copyright, since the same team handles all of it. The site names four patent attorneys, cites more than 25 years in the field, and points to more than 2,000 patents from the firm's work.

The name behind the listing

Goldstein Patent Law is the public-facing name, while Goldstein Law Offices, P.C. is the legal name in the record. The distinction gives prospective clients a precise entity name to compare with an engagement letter, invoice or other formal document. It also connects the firm's familiar patent-focused name with the professional corporation responsible for the representation.

The website follows the public name through the goldsteinpatentlaw.com domain. That consistency makes the directory entry easier to confirm before a client submits confidential information or responds to correspondence. The legal name remains the more exact reference for paperwork, conflict searches and payment records.

Direct contact details

The listing provides one telephone number, (718) 701-0700. It does not assign that number to an individual attorney, so callers can ask for Rich Goldstein or one of the named associates when a matter already has an attorney attached to it. For a new inquiry, the number supplies a direct starting point without requiring a client to identify a lawyer in advance.

The listed website offers a second way to confirm the firm's identity against the directory record. The matching public name, legal entity name and telephone number give a prospective client several details to check when reviewing a response from the office. Those specifics are especially useful when patent and trademark communications may include deadlines or requests for sensitive technical material.

The precise office addresses

The New York address is 300 East 42nd Street, New York, NY. This is the address attached to the directory's primary city listing. The street-level detail matters for anyone delivering documents, arranging an in-person visit or checking which office appears on formal correspondence.

The New Jersey address is 320 Broad Street, Red Bank, NJ. Listing the street addresses for both locations removes ambiguity between the firm's public name and its physical offices. A client can compare the address on an engagement document with the directory record before sending original materials or other items that require a specific destination.