Brooklyn law school incubator and policy clinic

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PROFESSOR JONATHAN ASKIN

Professor Askin is the Founder/Director of the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP) and the Innovation Catalyst for the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE) . He founded the BLIP Clinic when he joined Brooklyn Law School in 2008, bringing more than a decade of experience in the communications industry from both the public and private sectors. He has provided legal and policy counsel and strategic advice for companies that build and develop communications networks and Internet applications, as well as for other technology-oriented enterprises and startups.

Professor Askin has also served as a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London; a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Information Law, a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information; an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School; a Founder and Advisor to the Legal Technology Laboratory, and a Founder and Advisor to iLINC, a network of legal support clinics for the European startup community.

A sought-after expert in the field of Internet law, he played a key role in the tech task force of President Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign. He has also served as president and general counsel for the Association for Local Telecommunications Services and was a senior attorney at the Federal Communications Commission.

He has served as a board member to many industry groups, including the Universal Service Administrative Company, the North American Numbering Counsel, and the New York Chapter of the Internet Society, and has served as Chair of the Voice on the Net Coalition, as executive director of the Video on the Net Alliance, as president and founder of the Global IP Alliance, and as inaugural Chair of the CyberSpace Committee of the Federal Communications Bar Association.

He is a frequent commenter in the media about Internet, communications, and technology-related issues. He is an honors grad of Harvard College and Rutgers Law School, where he was Notes and Comments Editor for the Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court and practiced as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell and as a Deputy Public Advocate for the State of New Jersey.

ADJUNCT PROFESSORS

Professor Lynda M. Braun

Lynda M. Braun teaches trademark law to students in the BLIP Clinic so that they learn the practical skills needed to provide the clinic’s startup clients with selecting, clearing, and applying for trademarks, as well as negotiating and drafting trademark licensing, assignment and coexistence agreements.
Professor Braun also teaches the students how to represent clients in domain name disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).

Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Braun was a member of the Intellectual Property & Media litigation practice group at Weil, Gotshal and Manges for 25 years. As a nationally recognized intellectual property lawyer, she has significant experience in the areas of trademark, copyright, trade dress, dilution, unfair competition, first amendment, right of publicity, theft of idea, and internet/domain names. Professor Braun represented well-known television, motion picture, fashion, and sports companies and personalities in high profile, precedent-setting cases. In non-litigation matters, Professor Braun managed the trademark and domain name portfolios of a variety of clients and represented others in domain name arbitrations pursuant to the UDRP. She continues to serve as a panelist with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center’s Panel of Neutrals for Resolution of Domain Name Disputes and the ADR Forum, having presided in over 100 UDRP proceedings in that capacity to date. Professor Braun took an atypical route to becoming an attorney, teaching Spanish for 17 years at the Bronx High School of Science before entering law school.

Professor Serge Krimnus

Serge Krimnus is a patent attorney with over five years’ experience as a software engineer, bringing substantial technical knowledge and experience to his practice. Serge has represented clients in U.S. district court in patent and trademark infringement cases, prosecuted patent and trademark applications, and represented clients in domain name arbitrations. Serge’s experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications and litigating patents spans a variety of technologies from computer software and hardware to mechanical engineering and medical devices. Serge also counsels clients on issues relating to selection, registration and protection of trademarks, and has experience in opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Serge is an Adjunct Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor for Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches Patent Prosecution and supervises law students at the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic, which counsels startup technology companies on patent and trademark issues. He has also been a guest lecturer on design patent law at New York University. https://www.zellerip.com/

Professor Mark Potkewitz

Mark Potkewitz is an attorney and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School, and an Associate at Bortstein Legal Group (BLG). He served as Director of the Legal Innovation Centre at Ulster University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK and a Course Director for the LLM/MSc in Corporate Law and Computing. Before joining BLG, he was the Legal Technology Fellow at Brooklyn Law School, a Google Policy Fellow and Adjunct Fellow at TechFreedom, and spent several years working on federal legislative policy in Washington, D.C. He frequently speaks at international events and conferences on law and technology, privacy, blockchain, and machine learning applications in law and legal practice. He holds a BA from Washington University in St. Louis, and a JD from Brooklyn Law School.

BLIPICIANS

Victoria Glass Hometown: Long Island, NY Interests: Transactional Work, Corporate Law, AI

Bernadette Schneider BLIP Media Manager Hometown: Exton, PA Interests: Trademark, Copyright, Entertainment Law, Privacy Law, LGBTQ+ and Women-Owned Businesses

James Sanderson Hometown: Charleston, SC Interests: Data Privacy, Blockchain, Transactional Work

Olivia Rose BLIP Media Manager Hometown: Irvington, NY Interests: Corporate Law, Technology Law, Soft IP

Audrey Ziari Hometown: Austin, Texas Interests: Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret, Right of Publicity, Data Privacy, AI

Don Irwin Hometown: Ashburn, VA Interests: Corporate Advisory, Transactional Work, Corporate Structuring, Smart Contracts, Blockchain/DeFi, Internet Law, Soft IP, Entertainment Law

Camille Mangiaratti Hometown: Barrington, RI Interests: Life Sciences Patent Litigation

Moriah Son Hometown: Queens, NY Interests: Transactional Work, Cryptocurrency, Cannabis Law, Trademarks

Shauna Shalvey Hometown: Blauvelt, NY Interests: Patent Litigation, Health Law

Vincent Feng Hometown: Queens, NY Interests: Patents, Trademark, Aerospace Industry

Patrick Lin Hometown: Ringoes, NJ Interests: AI, Surveillance, Data Privacy, Policy Advocacy, Litigation

Gabrielle Gorelik Hometown: Staten Island, NY Interests: Transactional Work, Soft IP

Ru Hochen Hometown: Taiwan Interests: Soft IP, Internet Law, Telecoms Law, Data Privacy

Michelle Verkhoglaz Hometown: Hillsdale, NJ Interests: Corporate Law

Josh English Hometown: Basingstoke, UK Interests: Soft IP, Patents, Blockchain

Gabriel Aurrecoechea Hometown: Miami, Florida Interests: Data Privacy, AI, Transactional Work, Corporate Law

Gabbi D'Amato Hometown: Yorktown, NY Interests: IP, Transactional Work, NFTs, Entertainment Law

Daphne Spector Hometown: Great Neck, NY Interests: Fashion Law, Transactional Work, Trademark, Copyrights, Corporate Law, Entertainment Law

Ashley Wang Hometown: Somerville, NJ Interests: Startup Law, EC/VC, Capital Markets

Kristin Kuraishi, Ben Amsalam, Jake Wohl, Brian Fischer, Michael Shamouilian, Alice Albl, Andrew Lefkowitz, Luke Vaughn, Chloe Landman, Danielle Peterford, Hilary Wesenberg, Jamie Rauch, Sandeep Puri, Bryan Jin