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Mr. Zielinski is a Shareholder in the Intellectual
Property Practice group of Buchanan Ingersoll
& Rooney PC. 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 RFID tracking systems for the explosives
and Haz-Mat industries.
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. In 2005 Bob was a participant
in a panel presentation before a group of international
lawyers in Prague, Czech Republic. Bob discussed
the legal and regulatory hurdles facing biosimilars
in the generic pharmaceutical industry in the
United States.
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 was past 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
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