Kenneth B. Germain - Cincinnati, OH

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1969
    J.D.
    Law Review: N.Y.U. Law Review, Associate Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1966
    A.B.
    Honors: magna cum laude
    Honors: Elected to Membership in Phi Beta Kappa

Current Employment Position(s)

• Counsel

Classes and Seminars

• Precedential Supreme Court And Appellate Court Cases On Trademarks and Unfair Competition: 2019-2020 In Review, 30th All Ohio Annual Institute On Intellectual Property [AOAIOIP], sponsored by the Cincinnati Bar Association and the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association, virtual presentation October 8, 2020.
  
• Using Virtual Early Neutral Evaluation To Speed Up And Reduce Costs In Resolving Trademark/Trade Dress Disputes In The COVID-19 Era, Practicing Law Institute Webinar entitled “Intellectual Property Law: Trademark and Copyright Review 2020”, September 15, 2020.
  
• Precedential Supreme Court And Appellate Court Cases On Trademarks and Unfair Competition: 2019-2020 In Review, 30th All Ohio Annual Institute On Intellectual Property [AOAIOIP] sponsored by the Cincinnati Bar Association and the Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association, virtual presentation October 8, 2020.
  
• Regardless of What The Good Professor Just Told You, The Constitution Does Not Allow Dual Protection Under Design Patent and Trade Dress Regimes for the Same Subject Matter!, Webinar presented to the San Francisco I.P. Law Assn., December 10, 2020.
  
• Resolved: The Constitution Does Not Permit Dual Protection Under Design Patent And Trade Dress For The Same Subject Matter, Midwest Intellectual Property Summit, sponsored by the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 17, 2022.
  
• How IP (Trademarks) Can Help PI (Personal Injury) Attorneys Prevail Against Uber And Its Ilk, Prepared for Cincinnati Bar Assn., IP and Torts/Insurance Groups, June 13, 2023.

Published Works

Articles

• Over 25 publications.
  
• Liability Theories Based on Trademark Ownership and Licensing, ch. 3(VI) in Ridesharing Law and Liability (ABA 2020, Z. Pyers and K. Steele, eds.), coauthored by S. Owens.
  
• The Constitution Commandeth: Thou Shalt Not Protect the Same Subject Matter Under Design Patent and Trade Dress Laws, 21 Chic.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 90 (2021), coauthored by L. Sitler.
  
• The Constitution Commandeth: Thou Shalt Not Protect the Same Subject Matter Under Design Patent and Trade Dress Laws, IP Theory: Vol. 12: Iss. 2, Article 1, coauthored by Sitler, Louis H. (republication).
  

Bar Admissions

• Ohio, 1989
• California, 1970

Fraternities and Sororities

• Phi Beta Kappa