Member List
Others Interesting Sites
Intellectual Property Organizations (the IPLA’s)
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association (CincyIP)
Cleveland Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA)
Columbus Intellectual Property Law Association (CIPLA)
Dayton Intellectual Property Law Association (DIPLA)
Toledo Patent Law Association (TPLA)
Bar Associations (the BA’s)
American Bar Association (ABA)
Cincinnati Bar Association (CBA)
Cleveland Bar Association (CBA)
Columbus Bar Association (CBA)
Dayton Bar Association (DBA)
Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA)
Toledo Bar Association (TBA)
CincyIP Branding Guidelines For Speakers
CincyIP Branding Guidelines For Speakers
Speakers for events sponsored by CincyIP are to adhere to the following presentation guidelines:
* The overall or “official” CincyIP materials will have CincyIP only branding.
* Materials prepared by CincyIP members acting in their capacity as CincyIP officers or members as such should be CincyIP branded only. This will usually include the outer cover of an overall event binder or presentations by program chairs or officers representing CincyIP as an organization.
* Speaker materials or presentations by members or non-members not acting in an official CincyIP capacity may be branded with the speaker’s affiliation. This will usually include panelists chosen to represent a particular expertise, practice area, government agency, or other organization.
* Any other branding will be handled on a case-by-case basis by the Board.
Officers and Board Members
President, Ria Schalnat
Counsel, Frost Brown Todd LLC
513-651-6426 |
Vice President, Lori Krafte
Member, Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC
513-455-7635 |
Treasurer, Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Associate General Counsel, The Procter & Gamble Co.
513-634-4287 |
Secretary, Harry Guttman
Associate, Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP
513-241-2324 |
Chief Information Officer, Geoffrey L. Oberhaus
Partner, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
513-977-8623 |
Board Member, Stephen Albainy-Jenei
Member, Frost Brown Todd LLC
513-651-6839 |
Board Member, Anne H. Chasser
Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer, University of Cincinnati
513-261-2603 |
Board Member, Kenneth B. Germain
Counsel, Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC
513-455-8511 |
Board Member, Steve Gillen
Member, Greenebaum Doll & McDonald PLLC
513-455-7647 |
Board Member, Frederick H. Gribbell
Patent Attorney, Taylor & Aust, P.C.
513-891-2100 |
Board Member, Kurt L. Grossman
Partner, Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P.
513-241-2324 |
Board Member, Davida H. Isaacs
Assistant Professor of Law, Salmon P. Chase College of Law
859-572-5840 |
Board Member, David Mancino
Partner, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
513-357-9331 |
Board Member, Mina Matthews
Senior Counsel – Global Legal, Patents, The Procter & Gamble Co.
513-627-4210 |
Board Member, Victor Moreno
Counsel, Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
513-337-7158 |
Committees
Committees of CincyIP
Programming Committee
Chair: Karen Kreider Gaunt - GDM
Todd Bailey - FBT
Thom Barnes – International Paper
Kevin Kuehn - CLE Coordinator - WHE
Constitutional Committee
Chair: Stephen Albainy-Jenei - FBT
David Dorton - WHE
Len Lewis – P&G
Nominating Committee
Chair: David Mancino - TSH
Tom Burger - WHE
Mina Matthews – P&G
Local Patent Rules Committee
Chair: Kevin Kirsch - TSH
Chip Brown – Dinsmore & Shohl
Steve Butler – Thompson Hine
David Mancino - TSH
Jeff Metzcar – Thompson Hine
Outreach Committee
April Besl - KMK
Todd Dipre - Porter Wright
Elisabeth Rotermund - UC
Carrie Shufflebarger - GDM
Chris Elswick - TH
Monica Dias - FBT
Neal Wolfe - Chase (NKU)
Constitution of the Association
The Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association
CONSTITUTION
Article I: Name*
The Association shall be called “The Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association.”
Article II: Object*
The Association is established for such purposes permitted an organization exempt from• federal income tax under Section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, including the maintenance of the honor and dignity of the profession of the law of patents, trademarks and copyrights; the promotion of the development and administration thereof; and the cultivation of the exchange of ideas and information among the members of the Association.
Article III: Members
Section 1. Membership. There shall be three classes of membership in the Association—Honorary, Active and Associate.
Section 2. Honorary Members. All judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division, and the Eastern District of Kentucky, subject to their acceptance, and any other distinguished person who shall be elected from time to time, may be Honorary Members of the Association, and shall be entitled to all privileges, except that of voting, and shall be exempt from payment of dues.
Section 3. Active Members. Any lawyer admitted to the bar in any state or the United States or the District of Columbia engaged wholly or partly in the practice of patent, trademark or copyright law, or registered patent attorney or agent entitled to represent applicants before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, of good character, dwelling for at least three months of the year, or having his only or principal office in the Sixth Judicial Circuit as now or hereafter fixed by law, or within one hundred and fifty miles from Cincinnati, Ohio, shall be eligible for election to active membership.
Section 4. Associate Members. Any person not eligible to admission as an Active Member who is wholly or partially engaged in the practice or patent, trademark or copyright law or interested in any phase of such practice, and of good character, shall be eligible for election to Associate membership. Associate Members shall have the powers and privileges of Active Members except that of voting and those expressly limited to Active Members.
Section 5. Admission of Members. No person shall hereafter be admitted to Active or Associate Membership of the Association unless he has been recommended by the Committee on Admissions and elected by a majority vote of the members of the Association then voting and has qualified by payment of dues.
Section 6. Transfer of Members. Whenever any Associate Member becomes eligible for Active Membership, the facts rendering him so eligible shall be made known to the Secretary and Treasurer and said Associate Member shall thereupon become an Active Member upon payment of the difference between the then required admission fee for Active Membership and any admission fee he may theretofore have paid to the Association. Whenever any Active Member shall change his office lodging or dwelling in such a way as to make him ineligible for Active Membership, he may be transferred by the Treasurer to the Associate Membership list.
Article IV***
The officers of this Association shall be a President, a Vice President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. A Board shall also be elected from other members of the Association. The Board and officers shall serve from the date of their election until their successors are elected. The President, Vice President, the Secretary and the Treasurer shall hold office for one year. The terms of service for the shall, at the first election, be chosen to hold office for periods of one, two and three years, but thereafter for a period of three years
.
Article V
The Board of Managers shall manage the affairs of the Association subject to the Constitution and may authorize the payment of the necessary operating expenses of the Association. All appropriations of funds of the Association must be made by this Board.
Article VI: Standing Committees ***
Committees of the Association shall be appointed by the President. Chairs of said committees shall hold office for one year.
Article VII: Meetings of the Association
Section 1. The annual meeting of the Association shall generally be held in January of each year beginning with the year 1950. Other stated meetings of the Association may be held from time to time on the call of the President or Secretary or of any three members of the Board of Managers or of any ten Active Members of the Association. ***
Section 2. Meetings of the Board of Managers shall be held (1) immediately after the annual meeting of the Association, and (2) thereafter upon the call of the President or the Secretary or any three members of the Board.
Section 3. At any meeting of the Association twelve Active Members shall constitute a quorum.
Article VIII: Annual Dues**
The annual dues of Active and Associate Members shall be fixed by the Board and Officers.
Article IX: Suspensions and Expulsions
Any member may be suspended or expelled from this Association upon the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the membership.
Article X: Elections
All elections shall be by ballot and a plurality of votes shall be required for election. The officers selected shall enter upon their duties immediately upon their election. In case of a vacancy in any office, it shall be filled by appointment of the Board of Managers until the next annual meeting except in the case of a vacancy occurring in the office of President, which shall be filled by the Association at a meeting called for that purpose by the Board of Managers promptly after the vacancy occurs.
Article XI: Property
All interest in the property in the Association held by persons resigning or otherwise ceasing to be members shall vest in the Association.
Article XII: Dissolution*
In the event of dissolution, the assets of the Association are to be distributed as follows:
a) pay, or adequately provide for, all indebtedness of the Association, including the expenses of liquidation and all unfunded liabilities, and provide for the return, transfer, or conveyance of assets held upon condition requiring such, if such condition shall have occurred; and
b) the balance shall be used and expended until exhausted to carry out the objectives of the Association as set forth in Article II of these Regulations.
Article XIII: Amendment
The Constitution may be amended, but only by a two-thirds vote of the members present at an annual meeting of the Association, or at a stated meeting called in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution after notice mailed ten days before the meeting to each Active Member of the Association, such notice to contain a copy of the proposed amendment with a precise statement of the purpose thereof.
*as amended 11/30/89
**as amended 01/20/81
*** as amended 5/18/2007
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About
Welcome to CincyIP! Our goal is to continue our long-standing tradition of providing valuable continuing legal education to our members to address the most current issues in intellectual property law. Feel free to browse our website to learn more about our organization.
CincyIP, previously CIPLA, is the Cincinnati Intellectual Property Law Association. Thanks to the dedication and leadership of our new Officers and Board members, a revitalized CincyIP continues its long-standing tradition of providing valuable continuing legal education to its members by securing top-quality, nationally recognized speakers to address the most current issues in intellectual property law.
The CincyIP Officers and Board is continuing to work hard to provide improved and expanded services to our members. The Board has set up various committees such as the Committee on Admissions, the Committee on Programs and the Committee on Professional Ethics and Grievances, to improve CincyIP’s ability to address the needs and desires of our members. Although startup has been slow, these committees will play an important role in the future operation and effectiveness of the CincyIP.
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