Jonathan Hudis is a partner in Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt’s Trademark and Copyright Practice Group. He counsels clients in trademark, copyright, unfair competition and trade secrets matters. He has several years of practical intellectual property litigation experience in contested court matters and administrative proceedings. He also is well versed in trademark prosecution and registered copyright protection matters. He is a lecturer and an author of articles on trademark and copyright law, and presently is an Adjunct Professor of trademark and unfair competition law at the George Mason University School of 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, Western and Northern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, the Northern District of California, and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Hudis is also a member of the American Bar Association, Litigation and Intellectual Property Law Sections; American Intellectual Property Law Association, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, Professional Programs and AIPLA Fellows Committees, (Member, AIPLA Quarterly Journal Board of Editors, 2006-Present; Member, AIPLA Board of Directors, 2004-2007; Chair, 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 Association, Litigation and Intellectual Property Law Sections; Phi Delta Phi (Former Vice Magistrate, Evarts Inn) and the Order of the Barristers.
Mr. Hudis additionally is a member of several arbitration panels in the areas of Internet Domain Names and trademarks. He is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Arbitration and Mediation Center’s Domain Name Panelists (2000 to Present); the National Arbitration Forum’s Qualified Domain Name Dispute Resolution Panelists (2000 to Present); and the International Trademark Association’s Panel of Neutrals (2008 to Present). |