Mr. Kirsch is a partner in the Cincinnati office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. Mr. Kirsch is a peer reviewed AV Rated attorney who has represented companies in numerous complex commercial and intellectual property litigation matters. He is a patent attorney, licensed to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office. Mr. Kirsch recently testified before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Small Business, at a March 29, 2007 hearing entitled The Importance of Patent Reform to Small Business. Mr. Kirsch received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his law degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He was also enrolled in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California in Irvine. Mr. Kirsch previously led the Legal Services Department for Luxottica Retail (LensCrafters, Pearl Vision, Sunglass Hut). He was formerly a partner with Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP with a nationwide practice focused on the litigation of complex commercial, patent, trademark, copyright, misappropriation of trade secrets and domain name disputes. Mr. Kirsch also was previously of counsel with Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, a leading high technology law firm in Newport Beach, California. He is admitted to practice before the State Courts of Ohio and California, the United States District Courts of Ohio (Southern and Northern), the United States District Courts of California (Southern, Central and Northern), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Federal Circuit. Mr. Kirsch has served on the Board of Directors for the Orange County High School of the Arts and the Fund Raising Committee for the Orangewood Children’s Foundation. Mr. Kirsch is on the firm’s Diversity Committee and is an active member of the Greater Cincinnati Minority Counsel Program. He is also a member of the Hamilton County Republican Leadership Council, currently serving on the Organizations Committee.