Panagiota Betty Tufariello helps business owners and entrepreneurs follow their dreams and achieve their business objectives by securing patents for their inventions; searching, clearing and registering their trademarks; registering their Copyrights; negotiating all sorts of business agreements including licenses; litigating and generally helping them leverage their intellectual property for a better and more secure future.  Ms. Tufariello has been an Adjunct Professor at Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University where she taught trademark law, and has been a guest speaker at a number of seminars teaching Intellectual Property Law.

Ms. Tufariello has an extensive background in science and technology. She attended and graduated the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York, where she made history by being the only student to have graduated from Brooklyn Tech after only a 2-year attendance. She was admitted to Medical School at the University of Athens, Greece. She attended Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, where she received a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry, with an emphasis on analytical and physical chemistry. She was admitted into the Ph.D. Program for Organic Chemistry at Stony Brook University. Prior to attending law school, she began working in the pharmaceutical industry on Long Island, her last position being Director of Chemistry at Allergan Pharmaceuticals, the Contact Lens Division where she became fascinated with the combination of science, technology, and business, and decided to focus her life experience and education on Intellectual Property Law.

Domenique Tufariello graduated from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2021 and is admitted to practice law in the state courts of New York, as well as the Federal District Courts for the Eastern District of New York and Southern District of New York. Her practice is currently focused on patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution, but also includes intellectual property litigation.

Ms. Tufariello has more than fifteen years of experience in prior art searches, preparing technical drawings for use in patent applications, and in drafting patent applications. Ms. Tufariello has aided in the representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in intellectual property and contract disputes in before the TTAB, federal courts, and state courts.

Prior to her admission to the bar, Ms. Tufariello was a member of Cardozo Law’s Tech Start-Up clinic wherein she advised and assisted on matters for start-ups including entity formation, commercialization strategy, and intellectual property issues with a focus on patent prosecution and review. She participated in the USPTO Patent Externship Program throughout which she trained as a patent examiner and worked with multiple examiners to carry out their duties. She worked in Cardozo Law’s Fashion Practicum during which she advised Fashion Institute of Technology masters’ students on their capstone projects concerning intellectual property, entity formation, non-disclosure agreements, research and development agreements, and website’s terms & conditions and privacy policies.

Alec Kirschenbaum earned his Juris Doctor from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2022. During law school, he was an active member of Cardozo’s International & Comparative Law Review for two years, first serving as a Staff Editor before being appointed Online Editor of the journal.

Following law school, Mr. Kirschenbaum worked at a prominent personal injury law plaintiffs’ firm, where he gained extensive experience handling mass torts and product liability cases, assisting in all phases of litigation. He then transitioned to a regional insurance defense firm, where he focused on a broad range of matters, including mass torts, product liability, premises liability, and personal injury. His experience on both the plaintiff and defense sides of litigation provides him with a well-rounded perspective and a strategic advantage in advocating for his clients.

​Mr. Kirschenbaum transitioned to intellectual property law in 2025. His prior experience in the fashion industry in sourcing goods, marketing, and contracts benefits his work in trademarks and copyrights. His significant tort litigation experience gives him a unique and robust understanding of legal procedure valuable to intellectual property and contract disputes.