Intellectual Property Cardozo School of Law | Yeshiva University Intellectual Property & Information Law Program
Cardozo School of Law is consistently recognized as a leader in intellectual property and information law. With a foundation in theory and policy, our faculty and students thrive on asking questions about evolving issues and developing creative answers that meet current needs. The school’s focus on emerging technology, data, privacy, fashion and entertainment law demonstrates our commitment to remain at the forefront of legal issues that arise as innovation continues to shape the future.
PROGRAMS
FAME Center for Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law The FAME Center for Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law offers coursework, externships, clinics and events in fashion, art, music, sports and media law. This year, the center provided new courses and expanded its externship program. It featured speakers such as the general counsel of Barneys and the CEO of Michael Kors. The FAME Center’s board of advisors consists of practitioners from HBO, Google, Christie’s and the NHL, among others.
Recent Events at the FAME Center Clive Davis: Legendary Music Executive and Record Producer Discusses His Career Highlights A Conversation with Fashion Icon Isaac Mizrahi about Fashion, Law and Business Online Art Auction Market Art Law Day
Barbara Kolsun is the co-director of the FAME Center for Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law. A pioneer in fashion law, she has served as general counsel of Kate Spade, Stuart
A Conversation with HBO President of Documentary Films, Sheila Nevins Legal Aspects of the Jewelry Industry Fashion Law in Latin America Artificial Intelligence & Creative Works
Weitzman and 7 for All Mankind.
Confront or Conform? Broadcast Deals with New Media
Intellectual Property Scholars Conference On August 10-11, 2017, the Intellectual Property and Information Law Program at Cardozo Law hosted the 17th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference. The IP Scholars Conference brought together more than 150 intellectual property scholars from around the world to present their works-in-progress in order to benefit from the critique of colleagues. IPSC 2017 featured presentations on all IP-related topics, including, but not limited to, copyright, trademark, patent, design patent, trade secret and right of publicity. IPSC 2017 also featured a keynote address by Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss of NYU School of Law.
Cardozo Law attracts students from around the world to study international issues in intellectual property.
The Blockchain Project Blockchain technology is revolutionizing finance by creating new outlooks for the world’s financial systems, eliminating the need for a central bank or human intermediaries and using code to facilitate automated transactions. The Blockchain Project at Cardozo Law brings together academics, technologists, policymakers and members of the private sector for symposia, workshops and events that explore blockchain’s impact on law, government and society. The program provides training to law students and lawyers about blockchain technology and how to develop blockchain-based legal agreements.
The Blockchain Project was created by Associate Clinical Professor Aaron Wright, a leader in legal education in the field of law and technology. Professor Jeanne Schroeder co-directs the
“Blockchains are a new disruptive technology that has the potential to do to finance, corporate governance and law what the Internet did to communications and media 25 years ago.”
program.
- Professor Aaron Wright
The Cardozo/Google Project for Patent Diversity Roughly one-third of all businesses in the U.S. are owned by women, yet the percentage of women-owned patents remains stubbornly low. Today, 81 percent of all patents do not involve women inventors, and even among filings that include women, fewer than 8 percent of patents list women as the primary inventor. U.S.-born minority members (including Asian Americans, African Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans and other ethnicities) make up just 8 percent of U.S.-born patent holders, despite constituting 32 percent of the total U.S.-born population.
Professor Michael Burstein
The Cardozo/Google Project for Patent Diversity systematically addresses these problems by building and maintaining a network of in-house counsel, private law firms and pro-bono legal clinics to help provide patent assistance to female and minority group members in need of representation.
The Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal ranks #4 in the nation in the category of Arts, Entertainment and Sports and #18 in the category of Intellectual Property. —Washington and Lee University School of Law
Arts & Entertainment Law Journal The Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal is consistently recognized as one of the top intellectual property law journals in the nation. The AELJ publishes three student-edited issues annually, and it hosts a symposium that attracts scholars from across the country. Last year’s symposium,Comic Law Con!, explored legal issues facing comic book creators and publishers, including publishing agreements, collaboration agreements, service agreements, as well as key legal and business issues for the comic book industry.
Cardozo Data Law Initiative The Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI) provides students with substantive law coursework, practical training and realworld exposure to e-discovery, data privacy, social media law and cybersecurity. Students have the option of earning a concentration in data law. Ariana Tadler, who is listed by Super Lawyers as among the top 50 women in law in the New York area, is executive director of the CDLI.
CDLI Continues Groundbreaking Work with Spring Event Series Electronic Information in Criminal Cases took place Feb. 28 and focused on the significance of electronically stored information, which is becoming as important in criminal cases as it is in civil litigation. Implementing the New DFS Cybersecurity Regulation, held April 28, focused on a new statewide cybersecurity regulation that requires regulated entities to “establish and maintain a cybersecurity program designed to protect consumers’ private data and ensure the safety and soundness of New York’s financial services industry.”
Professor Felix Wu, Director, CDLI
Cardozo Law’s IP program ranks in the top 10 nationwide for law schools teaching real-life music issues. - Billboard Magazine
The Indie Film Clinic
Left: Cardozo Law students provided legal services for
To date, Cardozo students have represented over 90 independent, documentary and narrative films as part of the Indie Film Clinic, providing free or pro bono legal services. Many of their clients have appeared in leading U.S. and international film festivals. The new director of the clinic, Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin, is the former dean of students at Columbia Law School. Recent Indie Film Clinic clients include Women Who Kill, After Spring, Memories of a Penitent Heart, Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death By Audio, Quedate and Mad Tiger.
Women Who Kill, which won the award for Best Narrative Screenplay at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Right: Michelle GreenbergKobrin, the director of the Indie Film Clinic
Professor Christopher Buccafusco Widely Published in 2016-17 Professor Christopher Buccafusco, director of Cardozo’s Intellectual Property and Information Law Center and associate dean for faculty development, is a prolific legal writer and scholar. Professor Buccafusco’s volume of scholarly works in 2016-17 includes publications in: Virginia Law Review (two articles), William & Mary Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Minnesota Law Review and Indiana Law Journal.
Professor Christopher Buccafusco
IP & INFORMATION LAW COURSE OFFERINGS CORE CLASSES Copyright Internet Law Patent Law Trademark Law ADVANCED CLASSES
OTHER IP EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS Price Media Law Moot Court Competition The regional rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition are hosted at Cardozo Law annually. Cardozo/BMI Moot Court Competition Focused on music and entertainment law, the Cardozo/ BMI Moot Court Competition is co-sponsored by Cardozo and BMI and hosted at Cardozo annually. Intellectual Property & Information Law Colloquium The annual Intellectual Property & Information Law Colloquium features six leading scholars who present to faculty, guests and student IP fellows. Third Annual Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property This workshop was held at Cardozo Law and cohosted by Cardozo, Northwestern Law School and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. World IP Day The theme for 2017 was Innovation Improving Lives. International Trade and IP Practice Students met transactional, business and litigation attorneys focused on international IP practice.
Advanced Patent Law Advertising Law Antitrust Antitrust and Intellectual Property Art Law Communications Law Cultural Heritage Cybersecurity: A Practical Approach Design Law Electronic Commerce Entertainment Law Fashion Law Fashion Law Drafting Fashion Law Practicum First Amendment The Indie Film Clinic Information Governance Law Intellectual Property & Information Law Colloquium International IP: Selected Topics International Trade IP Business and Transactional Law IP Licensing Law of Surveillance Media Law Patent Law Practice Privacy Law Privacy Theory Seminar Social Media Law Sports Law Startup Law Taxation of Intellectual Property Tech Startup Clinic Technology Licensing Agreements Technology Policy Seminar
Collaboration with the State Intellectual Property Office in China (SIPO) Each year, more than a dozen intellectual property officials from China take Cardozo Law IP courses and visit courts, law firms and government agencies in New York.
Professor Stewart Sterk
FACULTY Christopher Buccafusco
Jeanne Schroeder
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Director, Intellectual Property & Information Law Program Expertise: Art Law, Copyright, Economic Analysis of Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark Law
Professor of Law; Co-Director, The Blockchain Project Expertise: Art Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Jurisprudence, Securities Regulation
Professor Buccafusco’s research applies social science methods to the study of legal problems, especially how the law affects creativity, innovation and happiness. Michael Burstein Professor of Law Expertise: Intellectual Property, Patent Law
Professor Burstein’s research focuses on the ways in which intellectual property law, corporate law and public law facilitate relationships among entrepreneurs, markets and government actors and influence the production and dissemination of innovative ideas. Aman Gebru Visiting Assistant Professor Expertise: Intellectual Property, Innovation Policy and International Trade and Development
Professor Gebru has published several writings in the area of IP, including articles that appeared in or are forthcoming in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology, John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, and Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law. Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Independent Film Clinic Expertise: Film and the Law
Professor Greenberg-Kobrin joined the faculty in 2016. She was previously the dean of students at Columbia Law School, where she taught Negotiations, Leadership for Lawyers and a skills-based Deals Workshop. Barbara Kolsun Professor of Practice; Co-Director, Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law (FAME) Center Expertise: Intellectual Property, International Business Transactions
Professor Kolsun has served as general counsel of Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and 7 for All Mankind, and she was assistant general counsel of West Point Stevens and Calvin Klein Jeans. Monroe Price Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law; Director, Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society Expertise: Art Law, Communications Law, Mass Media Regulation
Professor Price directs Cardozo’s Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society, which focuses on transnational studies and the application of new technologies to media law.
Professor Schroeder’s scholarly interests range from commercial law doctrine to feminist jurisprudential theory. Her current work is on recent amendments to Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Stewart Sterk H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law; Director, Center for Real Estate Law & Policy Expertise: Conflict of Laws, Copyright, Estates, Land Use Regulation, Property Law, Real Estate Law, Trusts
Professor Sterk’s publications span a wide variety of areas, ranging from property and land use regulation to trusts and estates, copyright, and the conflict of laws. Aaron Wright Associate Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Tech Startup Clinic; Co-Director, The Blockchain Project Expertise: Corporate Law, Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Trademark Law
Professor Wright has extensive experience in Internet and new technology issues. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, he co-founded and sold a company to Wikia. Felix Wu Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI) Expertise: Cybersecurity, Information Governance, Intellectual Property, International Privacy and Data Protection, Privacy
Professor Wu draws upon his doctoral degree in computer science in his research at the intersection of freedom of speech, privacy and intellectual property. Charles Yablon Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI) Expertise: Civil Procedure, Corporate Law, Corporations, Cybersecurity, International Business Transactions
Professor Yablon is an expert in corporate mergers and acquisitions, specializing in complex deals and hostile takeovers.
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