Raina was awarded the Winston-Salem <40 Leadership Award by the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW
WELLESLEY COLLEGE (BIOINFORMATICS)
BAR ADMISSIONS: NORTH CAROLINA, United States Patent and Trademark Office
FoundING PARTNER
Raina S. Haque, JD
USPTO Registered Patent Attorney
Reg. No. 73,838
My path to patent law ran through the technology itself. At Wellesley College I majored in bioinformatics, then spent my early career as a research fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS/NIH), working in the Neurotoxicology and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance labs — where, beginning in 2003, I built deep neural network software, decades before the current AI wave. From there I went to Wall Street as a business analyst and project manager at a major financial firm in New York.
Law came next: the University of North Carolina School of Law, then a clerkship at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, where I drafted opinions that became the law of the district. I've served as counsel to major healthcare and research institutions, and in 2016 I founded Erdős Intellectual Property Law to work directly with the inventors and creators I like best.
Today I split my time between the practice and the classroom. As a Professor of Practice at Wake Forest University School of Law — after previously teaching at Duke Law — I teach AI: Development and Regulation, Emerging Technologies, Internet Law, and Coded Governance: Blockchains + Cryptocurrency. I've published on generative AI and patent law in the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, spoken on the TEDxWakeForestU stage, briefed appellate judges and bar associations on emerging technology, and been quoted in the Wall Street Journal. The through-line of all of it: I understand the technology from the inside, and I am a scholar that has helped shaped related innovation policy.
Away from the law, I make things. I write — poetry, short stories, screenplays — and you're as likely to find me in a makerspace working with a laser cutter as you are in a library; I've never believed the technical and the creative belong in separate rooms. In 2024, my work bringing hands-on making into legal education won Best Poster Presentation at the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM). That's also why I love the clients I serve: I'm one of the people who builds things, too.
Education: University of North Carolina School of Law (JD) · Wellesley College (Bioinformatics) Bar admissions: North Carolina · USPTO (Reg. No. 73,838)