Zaneta Robinson

Zaneta Robinson

Clinical Professor of Law
Director of Intellectual Property Law Clinic

Contact Information
 336.758.3675

Worrell 2303E

Zaneta Moore Robinson is a Clinical Professor and founding Director of the Intellectual Property Law Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law, where students provide legal services to entrepreneurs and emerging businesses under her supervision. She is a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Trademark Law whose scholarship focuses on the intersections between U.S. trademark law, language, and global culture. Prior to joining Wake Forest Law, Professor Robinson was a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Intellectual Property Clinic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.

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Zaneta Moore Robinson is a Clinical Professor and founding Director of the Intellectual Property Law Clinic at Wake Forest University School of Law, where students provide legal services to entrepreneurs and emerging businesses under her supervision. She is a North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Trademark Law whose scholarship focuses on the intersections between U.S. trademark law, language, and global culture. Prior to joining Wake Forest Law, Professor Robinson was a Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the Intellectual Property Clinic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.

Professor Robinson began her legal career as a business litigator, ultimately settling into a transactional intellectual property practice. She has counseled clients on copyright, trademark, and related intellectual property rights protection and enforcement strategies, while managing domestic and international trademark portfolios for clients in the apparel, cosmetics and skincare, higher education, and technology industries, among others. She also has extensive experience drafting and negotiating contracts that affect intellectual property rights and representing clients before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Professor Robinson's scholarship has been published in the Rutgers University Law Review and the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal.

Professor Robinson earned her JD from Wake Forest University School of Law and her BS from James Madison University. She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, all North Carolina Federal District Courts, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Publications

Articles

Presentations

  • Language Preservation with Trademark Registration
    February 27, 2026
  • Rock and Rock Caucus and House Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence Roundtable
    Congressional Rock and Roll Caucus and House Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence, September 8, 2025
  • Machine Learning: What Does It Change and Why Does It Matter?
    Wake Forest University Office of the Provost and Center for Bioethics, Health & Safety, February 27, 2024

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Zaneta Robinson
Contact Information
 336.758.3675

Worrell 2303E
Expertise
  • Intellectual Property

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