Lauren J. Rucinski

Lauren Rucinski is an associate in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. She joined the firm in 2016 and practices in the environmental law and intellectual property group.

Lauren is a registered Patent Attorney and is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Education

Lauren earned her B.S. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2013. She earned her J.D./D.C.L., magna cum laude, from the LSU Law Center in 2016, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Louisiana Law Review.

Admissions

• Admitted, Louisiana, 2016; United States Federal Court for the Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of Louisiana; United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; United States Patent and Trademark Office
  

Articles, Publications and Presentations

• How to Avoid Losing Your Rights to the "Work for Hire Doctrine", New Orleans Canvas Magazine, January 1, 2018
  
• Net Neutrality Repealed: What it Means for Business, Louisiana Law Blog, December 15, 2017
  
• EPA Approves Emergency Fuel Waiver for Areas in Louisiana in Response to Hurricane Harvey, Louisiana Law Blog, August 30, 2017
  
• Offensive Trademarks and Protected Under the First Amendment, IntellectualProperty.Law, June 23, 2017
  
• Supreme Court Restricts Patent Infringement Venue, Upsets Eastern District of Texas "Rocket Docket", IntellectualProperty.law, June 13, 2017
  
• A Plethora of Cases Could Affect WOTUS Rulemaking, Louisiana Law Blog, June 1, 2017
  
• Federal Circuit Clarifies, Bolsters On-Sale Bar, Louisiana Law Blog, May 23, 2017
• Silicone Facility to Pay $1.5M in Fines for Monitoring and Reporting Violations, Louisiana Law Blog, May 16, 2017
• Supreme Court Reverses and Remands on Award of $399 Million to Apple, Intellectual Property Law Blog,  December 7, 2016
• Putting the House Back Together Again: The Scope of Copyright Protection for Architectural Works, 76 La. L. Rev. (2015)