Raina Haque

Raina Haque

Professor of Practice

Raina Haque, J.D. is a Professor of Practice in Technology at Wake Forest University School of Law. She specializes in computational law and emerging technologies. As the founder and lead attorney at Erdős Intellectual Property Law + Startup Legal, she offers her expertise as an intellectual property attorney and patent attorney registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She's interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, published with the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Journal of Law and Policy, and advisor to the MIT Computational Law Journal.

Before entering the legal profession, Raina worked as a fintech business analyst and software … Read more »

Raina Haque, J.D. is a Professor of Practice in Technology at Wake Forest University School of Law. She specializes in computational law and emerging technologies. As the founder and lead attorney at Erdős Intellectual Property Law + Startup Legal, she offers her expertise as an intellectual property attorney and patent attorney registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She's interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, published with the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Journal of Law and Policy, and advisor to the MIT Computational Law Journal.

Before entering the legal profession, Raina worked as a fintech business analyst and software engineer at a prominent Wall Street financial firm in New York City. There, she focused on clearance, trade, and settlement, as well as global portfolio technologies. She also served as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, working in the Neurotoxicology and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance labs on artificial deep neural network applications.

As one of the first patent attorneys to explore the blockchain technology space, Raina has authored numerous articles providing guidance on IP-related issues. She is regularly invited to train attorneys in the blockchain field at law schools and professional lecture series in New York City and Silicon Valley. In addition, she is a significant contributor to the North Carolina Bar Association's annual Future of the Law report on blockchain technologies and offers advice to various regulatory bodies regarding emerging technologies.

Raina's courses encompass advances in artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, online court systems, and data analytics, and digital fabrication. As an expert in emerging technologies, she actively participates in the development of soft law that will inform future hard law. Passionate about the interdisciplinary role of the next generation of jurists in the growing field of emergent technologies and entrepreneurship, Raina is one of the few professors in the law academy with a technical background in deep neural networks and computer vision systems.


Publications

Book Chapters

  • Chapter 30: The Lay of the Land and Safe Harbors in the Software Patentability Landscape... and a Quick Bird's Eye View of Blockchain Technology Patents, in PATENT LAW INSTITUTE 2018: CRITICAL ISSUES & BEST PRACTICES (with Alexandra Portaro, Practising Law Institute, April 2018) (2018).

Articles

  • Blockchain Development and Fiduciary Duty, 2 Stan. J. Blockchain L. & Pol. 139 (2019).
  • NCBA Report on the Future of the Legal Profession- Blockchain, NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION (forthcoming, Saad Gul et al), forthcoming.

Media

Raina Haque
Contact Information
 336.758.5720

Worrell 3313
Expertise
  • Bioethics & Biotechnology Law
  • Computational Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law & Technology
  • Patents & Trade Secrets
  • Trademarks