Bar Admissions

• The Commonwealth of Virginia

Education

• University of Notre Dame (BA 1975 cum laude)
• The Lewis and Clark Law School (J.D. 1978)

Membership

• Member – International Trademark Association (INTA)

Experience

Jay Hines concentrates his practice in the areas of trademark and copyright law.  Formerly a Senior Trademark Attorney at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), he focuses on trademark prosecution, enforcement and inter partes proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

While at the USPTO, Mr. Hines served in the Office of the Commissioner for Trademarks and carried out a special assignment involving automation issues related to implementation of the Trademark Law Revision Act of 1988.

Mr. Hines also has an active international trademark practice.  He manages worldwide trademark portfolios and has written and spoken frequently on the Madrid Protocol; he was a private sector delegate to the World Intellectual Property Organization Diplomatic Conference on the Trademark Law Treaty.  He taught Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law at George Mason University School of Law and U.S. Trademark Law for nine years in a Law Masters  program at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center.