Kristian Stefanides, editor in chief of Syracuse Law Review, to work with innovators at the LaunchPad

Innovation Law Center team

Kristian E. Stefanides, Syracuse Law Review Editor-in-Chief, Syracuse University College of Law J.D. Candidate, 2020, will be providing Syracuse University innovators insight on intellecutal property protection at the Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars at SU Libraries, Thursday November 14 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Stefanides is a third year law student at Syracuse University College of Law and a Senior Research Associate at the New York State Science and Technology Law Center where she has been working for over a year and a half. While at the law school, she has taken an intellectual property course that has provided her with knowledge of various intellectual property protections. She has also taken the Innovation Law Practicum at the Center, along with a course called Advising the Startup, where she had the privilege to assist startup companies with intellectual property, marketing, commercialization and regulatory research in regard to their inventions.

While working at the Center, she has visited The Tech Garden, StartFast Venture Accelerator, and Syracuse undergraduate classes to provide innovators with an introduction to IP and how they can best protect their inventions and technologies.

“I am excited and looking forward to assisting the SU innovators this year,” said Stefanides.  To make an appointment for the November 14 session at the LaunchPad, first floor of Bird Library, please e-mail LaunchPad@syr.edu

Photo:  Kristian E. Stefanides, second from left, with a Syracuse University Innovation Law Center team