Ken Germain has joined UD as a Distinguished Professorial Practitioner in Residence to teach intellectual property-oriented students and to help strengthen PILT. He is of counsel in Greenebaum Doll & McDonald's Intellectual Property Practice Group and focuses his practice on trademark counseling, consulting and litigation. He is often an expert witness on issues relating to trademarks and unfair competition. Prof. Germain was retained as the winning side’s legal expert in the famous TrafFix case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2001. As a consultant, he worked with the winning counsel in connection with the landmark trademark dilution case, Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc.

Prof. Germain is a frequent presenter at events focused on intellectual property as well as a prolific publisher, having written articles for The Annual Review of U.S. Trademark Law. He serves on the Advisory Council for the J. Thomas McCarthy Center for Intellectual Property and Technology Law and is the founder and continuing chairman of the All Ohio Annual Institute on Intellectual Property seminar, which recently held its 15th annual statewide program. Prof. Germain earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review.