attorney

Donovan D. Gibbs II

Donovan Gibbs is a member of the Intellectual Property & Technology group, in the Louisville, Kentucky office. His practice focuses on counseling clients in litigation and transactional matters involving intellectual property. He assists clients with the selection, adoption, registration, and protection of their trademarks as well as registration of copyrights. He assists clients with a variety of transactional issues including those related to licensing of copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights. As someone who was once a college athlete himself, Donovan is passionate about providing counsel to players and protecting their NIL rights with a thoughtful and empathetic perspective, through lived experience.

Bar Admissions

Kentucky

Memberships

American Bar Association

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Member

Kentucky Bar Association

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Member; Intellectual Property (IP) Law Section Executive Committee, Vice Chair (2024-25); PPA Committee Chair, IP Section (2023-24)

Louisville Bar Association

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Member

Community Involvement

Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana, Young Professionals Advisory Board (2024-present)

Central High School, Street Law Program (2018-20)

Education

J.D.,

2020

University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law

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American Bar Association Representative

Black Law Students Association, Member

Kentucky Legal Equal Opportunity Program, Mentor (2019-20)

Honor Council

Harvey Johnston Academic Scholarship (3L)

KLEO Scholarship

B.A., Criminal Justice,

2014

Certificate: Legal Studies (2017)

IUPUI

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Student Athlete, Basketball, Team Captain (2010-14)

More Than Stites & Harbison

Donovan joins Stites & Harbison after working as a Compliance Oversight and Program Advancement, Legal & Business Advisor for Humana, Inc. He was also an IP attorney for a small firm in Louisville. Outside of work, Donovan is a life-long athlete and sports enthusiast. After completing his four years of Division-1 basketball, he continued to compete in semi-pro and pro-am leagues throughout Kentucky and Indiana. Aside from playing basketball, he enjoys all things active, including participating in 5Ks, boxing classes, and experimenting with yoga. He says learning to golf may be his next venture. Other than sports, Donovan loves to travel, visit museums, attend concerts, and spend time with his Cane Corso, Sosa.

Contact Resources

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