Jonathan Hudis is a partner in the Trademark and Copyright Department of Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C., located in Alexandria, Virginia. He practices trademark, copyright, unfair competition, and trade secrets law.
Mr. Hudis has several years of practical experience in the litigation of intellectual property cases, including trials and appeals, before the United States Courts, the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") arbitration tribunals. He also is well versed in the prosecution of foreign and domestic trademark applications, as well as domestic copyright applications, and is a lecturer and an author of articles on trademark and copyright law. Mr. Hudis is presently an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law, in Arlington, Virginia, where he teaches courses on trademark and unfair competition law.
Mr. Hudis received a Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School (1987) and a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany (1984).
Mr. Hudis is admitted to the New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania (non-resident, active), Virginia, and the District of Columbia Bars. He is admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court; the U. S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Federal, and District of Columbia Circuits; and the U. S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the Eastern, Southern, and Northern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, the Northern District of California, and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Hudis is a member of the American Bar AssociationLitigation and Intellectual Property Law Sections, American Intellectual Property Law AssociationTrademark, Internet and Cyberspace, and Copyright Law Committees, (Member, AIPLA Fellows, 2007-Present; Member, AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 2006-Present; Chair, Member, AIPLA Board of Directors, 2004-2007; Trademark Law Committee, 2002-2004; Member, Amicus Committee, 2001-2004; Chair, Trademark Internet and Cyberspace Committee, 1999-2001; Vice Chair, Trademark Legislation Committee, 1998-1999; Chair, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice Subcommittee, 1996-1998; Chair, Trademark Newsletter Subcommittee, 1995-1996), the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the New York State Bar AssociationLitigation and Intellectual Property Law Sections, Phi Delta Phi (Former Vice Magistrate, Evarts Inn) and the Order of the Barristers.