Lee J. Eulgen is a member of Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.   Lee has significant experience in intellectual property litigation, negotiation and counseling, including trademark, copyright, patent, trade secret, trade dress, domain name, unfair competition and privacy-related matters.  Lee has also handled numerous brand and technology-driven transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, asset transfers, and licensing matters.  In addition, Lee has handled trademark registration in jurisdictions around the world, and has substantial experience in entertainment negotiation and litigation, and he is well versed in commercial litigation ranging from breach of contract and restrictive covenant actions to eminent domain proceedings.

Lee has particular experience with internet-related matters across a variety of industries, including online retail and auction, securities, online marketing and display advertising, and various non-profit associations and foundations.  For instance, Lee regularly provides advice to clients concerning sophisticated online copyright issues relating to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and he has handled hundreds of domain name matters and litigated countless domain name ownership disputes and matters arising under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).

Lee is the Chair of the Domain Disputes Subcommittee of the International Trademark Association’s Internet Committee, and he is also a founding member of the Neal Gerber Eisenberg Domain Name Expansion Team.  With ICANN poised to open the expansion of Internet top-level domain names in 2011 to limitless possibilities, e.g., “.law,” “.news,” “.your brand,” our Domain Name Expansion Team stands ready to assist clients in obtaining top-level domain registries of their own and in contesting the problematic applications of others.

Lee has also handled numerous complex procurement transactions involving the often intricate intellectual property and other issues arising from procuring or sourcing branded products from overseas manufacturers in jurisdictions such as mainland China, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the P.R.C., and Taiwan.

Lee’s practice includes frequent participation in pro bono matters.  Shortly after beginning his second year of practice, he prevailed at trial in a forgery case brought on behalf of an elderly pro bono client who had lost title to his home as the result of a fraudulent deed.  In addition, Lee sat on the Board of Directors of the Chicago domestic violence clinic, Pro Bono Advocates, for five years, from 2000 to 2005 and was previously a member of the Board of Directors of The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy.

Lee was named one of the 2007 “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch” by the publisher of the Chicago Lawyer and Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

Lee has been admitted as a member of the Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and is also on the District Court’s Lanham Act mediation panel.   Lee has also been admitted to practice before numerous federal district and circuit courts around the country.  He has been a guest speaker at the Northwestern University School of Law concerning topics related to his field. 

Lee earned his J.D., with honors, in 1997 from the University of Wisconsin Law School.  In 1994, Lee graduated from the University of Notre Dame, magna cum laude, with a B.B.A.  He is the recipient of Notre Dame’s John R. Malone Award, conferred annually on the top graduate of his major.

Lee was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1997 and became a partner in 2004.

• Illinois, 1997
• Wisconsin, 1997

• University of Notre Dame (B.B.A., 1994) magna cum laude
• University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., 1997) with honors