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Sarah Burstein Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

Chicago Kent College of Law

Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein joined the Chicago-Kent College of Law faculty in fall 2024 as a professor of law.

Professor Burstein’s research focuses on the intersection between art, design, and intellectual property law. She is an internationally-recognized expert in design patent law. Prior to becoming a law professor, Professor Burstein worked as an intellectual property litigation associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Pratt in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

Andres Sawicki Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

University of Miami

Andres Sawicki is a Professor of Law and Director of the Business of Innovation, Law, and Technology Concentration (BILT) and teaches in the area of intellectual property. His primary research projects explore the extent to which IP can help solve problems in the production of inventions and expressive works. He is particularly interested in the complex psychology of creativity, and in the difficulty of coordinating multiple creative collaborators.  Professor Sawicki’s research also examines the interaction among distinct patent doctrines. His work has been published by leading journals, including Cornell Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and The University of Chicago Law Review, among others.

Professor Sawicki graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with S.B. degrees in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Science, Technology, & Society. He then earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2006, where he was an Articles Editor for the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.

After graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 2007 through 2010, he worked as an associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focused on intellectual property litigation, especially Hatch-Waxman Act pharmaceutical patent cases. Prior to his appointment at Miami Law, Professor Sawicki was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Saurabh Vishnubhakat Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

Cardozo School of Law

Saurabh Vishnubhakat is a Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property & Information Law Program at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  During the 2024–2025 year, Professor Vishnubhakat is a Visiting Scholar at the NYU School of Law's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy.  He is also a Research Fellow at the Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy and a Senior Scholar at the George Mason University Center for IP and Innovation Policy.  He writes and teaches on intellectual property, administrative law, civil procedure, and remedies, especially from an empirical perspective. 

Professor Vishnubhakat’s work appears in leading law reviews as well as peer-reviewed legal, economic, and life science journals.  His writings have been cited in federal judicial opinions, in agency reports and rulemaking, and in over fifty Supreme Court petitions and briefs across more than two dozen cases. 

Until 2022, he was a professor at Texas A&M University, where he held tenured appointments in the School of Law and the Dwight Look College of Engineering and guest-lectured in the Mays Business School.  Before becoming a full-time academic, Professor Vishnubhakat served in the United States Patent and Trademark Office as the principal legal advisor to that agency’s first two chief economists.  He was also a faculty fellow at Duke Law School and a postdoctoral associate at the Duke Center for Public Genomics.

Paul Rogerson Related Seminars and Products

Visiting Assistant Professor

Chicago Kent College of Law

Paul Rogerson joined the Chicago-Kent College of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor in fall 2023. Before that, he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Posner, and practiced law at Sidley Austin LLP and Durie Tangri LLP. His primary research interest is patent law.

Education

J.D., University of Chicago Law School

M.Sc., University College London

B.A., University of California Berkeley