Ms. Kornfield specializes in intellectual property matters, including computer systems acquisition and licensing, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, unfair competition, multimedia, cyberspace, rights of publicity, rights of privacy, and post employment restrictions. She assists corporations, individuals, museums, libraries, educational institutions, lending institutions, nonprofit entities, and venture capitalists in the intellectual property protection of their ideas and assets, including both transactional and litigation matters. Ms. Kornfield is licensed to practice in the States of Michigan and Illinois.

She is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Districts, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Michigan, the Western District of Michigan, and the Northern District of Illinois. She is also a member of numerous national, state, and local bar associations, and a member of bar association sections and committees relating to computer law, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, arts and entertainment, law and technology, and international law.

She is head of the Firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group and was an Adjunct Professor of Copyright Law at the University of Michigan Law School for Winter Term 1997. She is currently serving a three-year appointment on an Advisory Committee to Stanford University on matters involving libraries, copyrights, and the digital classroom. She was lead counsel to Michigan Document Services, Inc. in its five-year battle to protect the copyright fair use rights of professors and students. Ms. Kornfield has lectured extensively on the legal issues involved in the acquisition of informational systems, and on intellectual property and technology matters in general.

skornfield@bodmanlongley.com

Partner, Intellectual Property Practice Group Labor and Employment Law Practice Group Municipal Law and Finance Practice Group

Ann Arbor Office
Telephone: (734) 930-2488
Fax: (734) 930-2494

B.A., University of Michigan, 1974
J.D., Indiana University Law School, with honors, 1982
Admitted to Bar, Illinois, 1982; Michigan, 1988