Attorneys

Kyle Anne Citrynell has a national litigation and transactional practice in the areas of arts, entertainment, media, publishing, and technology, and intellectual property law. Kyle has litigated copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secret and patent matters, and cases involving business torts and unfair competition, as well as employment and products liability. She has worked with for-profit and tax-exempt organizations from formation and as corporate counsel and in the negotiation and memorialization of a wide variety of licensing, merchandising, distribution and franchising transactions for inventors, artists, film and event producers, performers, musicians, authors, magazine, book and website publishers, software and multimedia creators and radio and television stations among others.  Kyle has written and lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, in her areas of practice concentration, including as a regular contributor to Louisville's business newspaper, Business First, and Audience magazine. Kyle was graduated from Duke University (B.A. '77; J.D. '80) and came to Louisville in 1980 to work with the Kentucky Arts Commission and Fund for the Arts to establish Professional Services to the Arts which provided legal, accounting, banking and insurance services to artists and arts groups.

• Litigated and managed over 30 simultaneous copyright infringement cases on behalf of an internationally recognized sculptor against major retailers, catalog companies and importers.
• Represented plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving misappropriation of trade secrets, interference with contracts and prospective business advantage, deceptive trade practices, and unfair competition.
• Represented plaintiffs and defendants in products liability cases involving industrial and medical devices.
• Represented plaintiffs and defendants in technology cases involving software and website design, development and contract issues.
• Filed and prosecuted over 300 trademark applications, and represented petitioners and respondents in opposition and cancellation proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
• Acted as domestic representative for foreign applicants and law firms on behalf of their United States trademark applications.