R. Kenyon Meyer

R. Kenyon Meyer — Patent Litigation Practice Summary

Meyer is a partner and managing partner of Dinsmore & Shohl's Louisville office, but patent litigation is not his core practice. His firm profile and peer listings describe a 30-plus-year general commercial trial lawyer handling business disputes, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, employment and white-collar matters, and even criminal and death-penalty cases; he is recognized for business litigation (Chambers USA, Kentucky Super Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation) rather than IP specialty. In the one tracked patent matter, Feit Electric Co. v. Ledvance, LLC (E.D. Ky.), he appeared as local counsel for plaintiff Feit Electric, a lighting company asserting U.S. Patent No. 8,604,678 covering white LED filament bulbs against Ledvance's Sylvania-brand lamps. The case was stayed in April 2025 pending PTAB inter partes review (IPR2024-01357) that Ledvance had instituted — a procedural posture he handled as local counsel while Benesch attorneys led the substantive patent work. Beyond the tracked case, his Law360 docket lists other patent matters in Kentucky (e.g., Dental Choice Holdings v. New Age Performance), and his firm bio cites an early business-method patent case, Beneficial Franchise Co. v. BankOne, where he was lead defense counsel for bank defendants and obtained a favorable settlement.

Side and firm context. The tracked data shows plaintiff-side work (1 appearance, as local counsel), which aligns with his role for Feit Electric; historically, however, his one documented patent matter put him on the defense side for operating companies, and he otherwise represents both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation. He appears to have spent his career at Dinsmore & Shohl, where he also sits on the firm's Board of Directors; publicly available sources do not identify prior firm affiliations. There is no evidence of a regular PTAB/IPR practice — his only connection to an IPR is the Ledvance-filed review in the tracked case — and nothing indicates USPTO registration as a patent practitioner or a technical degree.

Bar and education. Kentucky bar (1995); B.A., University of Notre Dame (1992); J.D., University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law (1995); admitted in the Eastern/Western Districts of Kentucky, Southern District of Indiana and Southern District of Illinois, and the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits. Overall, Meyer is best characterized as a veteran Kentucky trial lawyer who lends local-counsel and litigation strength to patent cases handled within Dinsmore's broader IP group rather than as a dedicated patent litigator.