LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC welcomes attorney Donovan D. Gibbs II to the firm based in the Louisville, Ky., office. He joins the Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group.

Gibbs’s 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 also assists clients with a variety of transactional issues including those related to licensing of copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks and other intellectual property rights. As a former college athlete, Gibbs is passionate about providing counsel to players and protecting their name, image and likeness (NIL) rights with a thoughtful and empathetic perspective, through lived experience.

Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Gibbs worked at Humana, Inc. as a Compliance Oversight and Program Advancement, Legal & Business Advisor. He also served as an intellectual property attorney for a small firm in Louisville. Gibbs earned his J.D. from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 2020. He is admitted to practice in Kentucky.