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Julie E. Zink
Professor of Lawyering Skills; Coordinator of the Legal Profession Program
Full-Time Faculty
School of Law
Profile
Julie Zink, a 1999 graduate of the University of Dayton School of Law (UDSL), joined the faculty in 2006 to teach Legal Profession courses, with a particular interest in intellectual property (IP) law. She is currently the Coordinator of the Legal Profession Program and previously served as UDSL's inaugural Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Interested in law since middle school, Professor Zink was introduced to IP law in 1994 while earning an associate’s degree in legal assisting from Sinclair Community College. “I fell in love with the subject matter, and decided that was the field for me.” She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from Wright State University while working as a paralegal in an IP firm. Thereafter, Professor Zink attended UDSL, where she participated in the Program in Law & Technology and was a Walter H. Rice Moot Court Competition champion. During law school, she had the opportunity to extern for the Honorable Walter H. Rice and intern for Magistrate Michael Merz of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Professor Zink's law practice focused on IP, primarily patent litigation. From 1999 to 2003, she was a patent litigator at Oliff & Berridge in Alexandria, Virginia. From 2003 to 2006, she was an associate at Faruki Ireland & Cox PLL in Dayton, specializing in IP litigation. Over the course of her litigation career, Professor Zink represented numerous clients, including Nikon, Toyota, Xerox, Procter & Gamble, NCR, and LexisNexis. From January 2008 to January 2016, she worked part-time as counsel for Teradata Corporation on patent licensing matters.
Still active in the local (and national) legal community, Professor Zink was named Barrister of the Month for September 2010 by the Dayton Bar Association. After previously serving as Treasurer, Secretary, and Vice President, Professor Zink became President of the Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association in June 2011 and held that role until the term ended in June 2013. Professor Zink also served on the Ohio Supreme Court's Commission on Certification of Attorneys as Specialists from 2011 to 2017. In November 2015, she was appointed to the American Intellectual Propery Law Association's Quarterly Journal Editorial Board for a three-year appointment. Thereafter, she served as Chair of the Dayton Bar Association's Diversity Issues Section from 2019 to 2022, and on the Executive Committee of the Greater Dayton Area Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Legal Roundtable from 2019 to 2021.
Courses Taught
LAW 6105 Legal Profession I
LAW 6106 Legal Profession II
LAW 6220 Appellate Practice & Procedure
LAW 6535 Trade Secret Law
LAW 6832 Intellectual Property Law
LAW 6905 Patent Litigation Capstone
Degrees
M.S., Interdisciplinary Educational Studies, University of Dayton, 2022
J.D., University of Dayton School of Law, 1999
B.A., Political Science, Wright State University, 1996
A.A.S., Legal Assisting, Sinclair Community College, 1994
Selected Publications
Collaborative CREAC Drafting: Co-Creating an Example in Context, 68 St. Louis Univ. L. J. 529 (2024).
When Trade Secrecy Goes Too Far: Public Health and Safety Should Trump Corporate Profits, 20 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. (Spring 2018).
Shifting the Burden: Proving Infringement and Damages in Patent Cases Involving Inconsistent Manufacturing Techniques, 2 Hastings Sci. and Tech. L.J. 81 (Winter 2010)