Patent Attorney (Cheminstry)    

Education Background:

Professional training in USPTO in 1980

B.S., Fudan University

Professional Experience:

She was a first-rank patent examiner in The State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO). In the year of 1980, Ms. NI was send by SIPO to study patent examination practicing in the Patent and Trademark Office of the United States, and since then she had served as a patent examiner in SIPO for 20 years. Ms. NI participated in the drafting of the Chinese Patent Law in 1983. From 1965 to 1980, she had been a science researcher at The Institute of High Energy Physics of The Chinese Academy of Science for 15 years during which she published 6 theses and gained National Science Awards for two of her researches. Ms. NI is a member of All-China Patent Agents Association.

Language:

Mandarin; Shanghai dialect; English

Mr. Zielinski is a Partner and the Chairman of WolfBlock Law Firm's Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Practice Group and co-chair of the Life Sciences Practice Group. His practice covers all phases of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and unfair competition law, including prosecution, licensing and litigation as well as software licensing, emerging new media issues and electronic commerce. Mr. Zielinski has received an AV Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the industry's premier directory.

Mr. Zielinski represents a broad base of clients such as large international and national corporations, small to medium sized closely held companies, innovative start-ups, software developers, Internet-based companies, medical institutions, universities and individual artists, musicians and inventors. He is admitted to practice before the United States Patent Office and has successfully prosecuted patent applications for a variety of clients in the chemical and mechanical arts including food processing technologies, industrial packaging and labeling, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, toys and environmental monitoring equipment.

From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Zielinski was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law in Camden, New Jersey. He has taught courses in intellectual property law, advanced trademark law, and advanced copyright law, and has provided research guidance to students in intellectual property law writing seminars. In 1993, Mr. Zielinski was one of five lawyers from Philadelphia who traveled to Nishnhy-Novgorod, Russia to participate in an intensive business training program for educating Russian business minded entrepreneurs in the practicalities of conducting business with western counterparts. From 1995 through 1997, he gave a series of lectures in intellectual property law to visiting delegations of businessmen, lawyers and government officials from several provinces in China and to a delegation from The Chinese Government Central Committee. Mr. Zielinski spoke extensively on the need for and benefits of various intellectual property protection schemes.

Mr. Zielinski received his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin in 1975 and his J.D. from Temple University School of Law in Philadelphia in 1986. He was a Senior Research Scientist for Merck & Co., Inc. for eight years prior to his entry into the legal profession.

Mr. Zielinski co-authored "Protection of Information Rights Outside of Copyright: The Philadelphia Eagles v Philadelphia" which appeared in Copyright World (December 2002) and Sports and Character Licensing (January 2002). He is also the author of “Audit Keeps Tabs on Intellectual Property” published in the New York Law Journal (February 2002); co-author of “Records Retention: What Banks Don't Know Can And Likely Will Hurt” which was published in The Banking Law Journal (April 2002); author of “Keeping Tabs on Your Property: Why it Makes Sense to do an Intellectual Property and Information Technology Audit Now” which appeared in the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (May 2002) and “Protecting Your Trade Secrets - Does Your Company Have an Effective Computer Use and E-Mail Monitoring Policy” which also appeared in the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (September 2003). Mr. Zielinski also authored “Regular IP, Technology Audits Should Include Policies as well as Property” which appears in Intellectual Property Lawcast (Volume X, Number 1, January 12, 2004).

Mr. Zielinski is currently a member of the Chemical Practice Committee, the Federal Practice and Procedure Committee, and Chair of the Committee on Trademark, Copyrights and Unfair Competition of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association. He is also a member of The Benjamin Franklin American Inn of Court and Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Verity Foundation, a non-profit organization which provides grants of marketing and technology services to Delaware Valley non-profits with missions supporting education, social benefit and the arts.

Professional Affiliations & Leadership

• American Bar Association

• American Intellectual Property Law Association

• Benjamin Franklin Inn of Court 

• Pennsylvania Bar Association

• Philadelphia Bar Association 

• Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association

• Practicing Law Institute