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ROBERT KAIN

Florida Supreme Court Certified Civil Mediator

Robert Kain is a longtime intellectual property practitioner specializing in computer related matters, now specializing and serving as a mediator in Artificial Intelligence (AI), cryptocurrency, and blockchain systems which intersects with patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law. He is Board Certified by the Florida Bar in I.P. As a technology leader in the Bar’s Business Law Section, he is Chair of the FL Bar’s Blockchain and Digital Assets Committee (2026) and Chair of the FL Bar’s AI Task Force.

About Robert Kain

He has a B.E. Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Law Degree from Vanderbilt University. Robert drafted his first computer system patent in 1982, working as patent counsel for General Electric. Since that time, he has authored hundreds of computer program patents and has published more than three law review and journal articles on computer and Internet law. He secures patent and trademark rights, both domestically and internationally, for his clients. Robert also litigates patent, trademark, copyright, and Internet-related disputes throughout the United States, in District courts, and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He is well-versed in the highly technical fields of computer and Internet law.

He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to the Bars of Florida, New York, the District of Columbia, numerous U.S. District Courts, and many U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. Robert taught patent law as an adjunct professor of law at Nova Southeastern University Law School, continues to lecture at various CLE seminars, and has published over 10 law review and law-related articles in the I.P. field.

His tech-forward publications include: Florida’s New FinTech Sandbox Statute Removes Barriers to Innovation in Digital & Cryptocurrency Servicing, Fla. Bar Business Law Section, Nov. 3, 2021, co-author Zachary L. Catanzaro; Patients as Peers: Blockchain-Based EHR and Medical Information Commons Models of HITECH Act Compliance, 44 NSU Nova Law Review, pg. 289, Spring 2020, co-author Zachary L. Catanzaro; The Revolution Will Be Memorialized: Blockchain Smart Contract Use Cases, Fla. Bar Jour. Vol. 94, No. 5, Sept. 2019, co-author Zachary L. Catanzaro; The New Computer Abuse and Data Recovery Act, F.S. 668.801: A Business Tool Against Computer Hacking, Fla. Bar Journal, Jan. 2016, Vol 90, No. 1; and Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – Employee Hacking: Legal in California and Virginia But Illegal in Miami, Dallas, Chicago and Boston, Fla. Bar Journal, Jan. 2013, Vol 2013, No. 1.

He is a registered patent attorney with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office and is admitted to the Bars of Florida, New York, the District of Columbia, numerous U.S. District Courts, and many U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. Robert taught patent law as an adjunct professor of law at Nova Southeastern University Law School, continues to lecture at various CLE seminars, and has published over 10 law review and law-related articles in the I.P. field.

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