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Kevin N. Ainsworth

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Education

  • Fordham University (JD, cum laude, 1994)
  • University of Michigan (BS, Physics, 1986)

Bar Admissions

  • Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • United States District Court for the Western District of New York
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • United States Supreme Court

Kevin helps clients find winning solutions to complex commercial disputes. His practice focuses on intellectual property litigation. He also has extensive experience litigating the duties owed by corporate directors and officers, and auditing firms to creditors and shareholders. Kevin has successfully represented clients in mediations, arbitrations, trials, and appeals. Kevin also uses his skills as a neutral mediator to help parties resolve disputes over globally recognizable trademarks and copyrights.

After serving in the US Marine Corps from 1986 to 1991, he attended Fordham University School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Fordham Urban Law Journal. Kevin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, US District Judge, during the trial and conviction of international terrorist Ramzi Yousef. He is a contributing author to the ABA’s Annual Review of Intellectual Property Law Developments 2010.

He is on the boards of directors of, and serves as general counsel to, both the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation and the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation. He also has appeared nationally on Fox & Friends numerous times as a spokesperson for the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. Kevin enjoys triathlons and has competed in the NYC Triathlon annually since 2009.

Recognitions & Awards

  • New York Super Lawyers: Business Litigation (2010 – 2012)
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent
  • Order of the Coif

Professional & Community Involvement

  • Member, Local Rules Committee of the US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (involved in drafting the court’s new Local Patent Rules
  • Member, Second Circuit Courts Committee of the Federal Bar Council
  • Past chair, Committee on Science and Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  • President, 49th and 50th Annual New York Leatherneck Scholarship Ball