Craig L. Mytelka

Craig Mytelka is Chair of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Law Section and serves on the Firm's Executive Committee. His practice is concentrated in the areas of U.S. and foreign trademark and copyright law, domestic and international licensing, franchise law, unfair competition, trade secrets and patents, international trade and U.S. Customs regulations, as well as general corporate law. Mr. Mytelka also maintains a civil litigation practice, which includes representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in the areas of infringements, unfair competition, trade secrets and other complex litigation. Mr. Mytelka previously served the Firm as Chair of Business Development and Marketing, and has served on the Firm’s board of directors as vice president.

Craig Mytelka is Chair of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Law Section and serves on the Firm's Executive Committee. His practice is concentrated in the areas of U.S. and foreign trademark and copyright law, domestic and international licensing, franchise law, unfair competition, trade secrets and patents, international trade and U.S. Customs regulations, as well as general corporate law.  Mr. Mytelka also maintains a civil litigation practice, which includes representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in the areas of infringements, unfair competition, trade secrets and other complex litigation.  Mr. Mytelka previously served the Firm as Chair of Business Development and Marketing, and has served on the Firm’s board of directors as vice president.

Mr. Mytelka is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has been named one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business magazine. In 2010, he was featured in Virginia Business magazine as one of the top 10 vote recipients in Intellectual Property for the 2009 Legal Elite.  Mr. Mytelka has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading intellectual property attorney and named a “Super Lawyer” for Intellectual Property by Virginia Super Lawyers magazine.  In addition, Martindale Hubbell has rated Mr. Mytelka an AV attorney, its highest rating available.  Mr. Mytelka is also recognized as a Master in The James Kent American Inn of Court. He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Intellectual Property Section of the Federal Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Section of the Virginia State Bar, the Virginia Beach Bar Association and the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association.

Mr. Mytelka serves as a trustee at Cape Henry Collegiate School in Virginia Beach and serves on the Board of Directors of Horizons - Hampton Roads.  He has previously served as an adjunct professor of law at Regent University School of Law, where he tought computer, trademark, copyright, patent and unfair competition law.  Mr. Mytelka has also served on the advisory board to the College of Engineering and Science at Old Dominion University, served as a Director and on the Executive Committee of the Virginia Beach Neptune Festival and served as a Director on the Board of Technology Hampton Roads.

A graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, Mr. Mytelka received his law degree from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond.  While in law school, he was a merit scholar and a member of the University of Richmond Law Review.