Lecturer Bios
Greg M. Popowitz, Esq.
Greg Popowitz is a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office of Assouline & Berlowe. He is a Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent & Trademark Office and focuses his practice on Intellectual Property. Mr. Popowitz helps clients protect their inventions, brands, and other creations using patent, trademark, and copyright rights. This includes the prosecution of patents and trademarks, licensing, co-existence agreements, evaluating new inventions, brands, and technology, clearance searches, and litigation. Mr. Popowitz enjoys counseling clients on the various mechanisms available to protect their Intellectual Property, which ultimately adds value to their business.
Prior to his legal career, Mr. Popowitz worked as a product engineer for Visteon Corporation, a former subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. He focused on the design and manufacturing of chassis driveline components. Specifically, he worked on current and forward model driveshaft design, durability and prototype testing, and traveled to assembly plants where he consulted with operating managers regarding ongoing improvement actions.
Outside the office, Mr. Popowitz is actively involved with the Anti-Defamation League, where he serves as a Glass Leadership co-chair and co-chair of ADL’s Miami Civil Rights Committee. He organizes events for Georgia Tech Fort Lauderdale Alumni Network student meet & greets, athletic game watches, volunteer activities, and other meetings to bring local Georgia Tech Alumni together to support the community.
Peter Koziol, Esq.
Peter A. Koziol is a partner in the Boca Raton Office and heads the firm's Intellectual Property Practice. He is also a member of the Intellectual Property Practice, International Business Practice, and Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. A Registered Patent Attorney and a Florida Board Certified Expert in Intellectual Property Law, Mr. Koziol focuses his practice on Clients with intellectual property portfolios, major claims, and high stakes intellectual property litigation.
Mr. Koziol represents influencers, individual entrepreneurs, private companies and public companies. His clients and their intellectual property have been featured in and on Today™, Shark Tank™, Oprah™’s favorite things, E!™ , NYC Fashion Week™, American Idol™, Vogue™, Extra™, MTV™, FORTUNE™, FORBES™, CNN™, FOX™, WSJ™ and other mainstream and specialty media outlets. Corporate clients have included private equity, investment, and alternative investment management companies; hedge funds including fund of funds; real estate and cash management firms; multinational corporations.
Mr. Koziol has a substantial technical and business background. He is an accomplished software engineer, software developer, business and quality assurance analyst, and consultant. As an experienced computer programmer, he understands data structures, algorithms, software design methodologies, and has fluency in a variety of computer languages. Mr. Koziol directed domestic and international software development teams. He developed risk management and analysis software for private financial investment companies utilizing various proprietary hedging techniques and real time and predictive analysis of market data. And, he contributed to hundreds of major internationally published software titles, including multimillion dollar sellers and SIIA Codie Award winners.
Mr. Koziol is experienced representing pioneers and large companies in network communications disputes including patent litigation involving IEEE and various other industry standards such as TCP/IP, 802.11, SMS, MMS messaging systems and GSM/CDMA protocols. He has also been involved in multiple projects involving swarming technologies, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, and unmanned vehicles including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Mr. Koziol is very interested and enthusiastic about emerging drone technologies and related artificial intelligence.
Mr. Koziol represents business clients in a full-range of intellectual property matters. Of particular interest are: amusement inventions; computer software inventions; aerospace inventions; green energy inventions; new foods and drugs; international business organizations; domestic and offshore special purpose entities; and structured products.
