Eda Stark

Eda Stark is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed in the Intellectual Property & Technology practice group. Eda represents innovator companies across a range of industries in high-stakes, high-risk disputes related to complex technologies.  Eda has experience in a wide variety of forums, including before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), and district courts in many states.

Prior to joining the firm, Eda was in-house counsel in the aerospace industry at Virgin Galactic working on legal issues surrounding commercial human space travel. Before moving in-house, Eda was a litigation associate at a global Intellectual Property law firm. While in law school, Eda built the foundation of her patent practice doing patent prosecution and freedom to operate due diligence analysis as a technology specialist at a boutique Intellectual Property law firm. 

Prior to her legal career, Eda spent nearly a decade as a scientist in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. At Pfizer and Novartis, Eda worked to develop treatments for neurological and ophthalmic diseases. She also has experience with medical imaging technologies, e.g., Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) through her academic research, including at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

*Admitted in Massachusetts Only. Practicing in the District of Columbia under supervision, DC Court of Appeals Rule 49(c)(8).

Eda has represented the following companies related to the following technologies:

• Global Fortune 10 consumer electronics company in multi-patent dispute and subsequent appeal to the Federal Circuit related to wireless instant messaging technology
• Global Fortune 10 consumer electronics company in multi-patent dispute and subsequent appeal to the Ninth Circuit related to biometrics technology
• Global Fortune 10 consumer electronics company in multi-patent global licensing and royalty dispute related to telecommunications, broadband, and cellular standard-essential technologies
• Global Fortune 10 consumer electronics company in patent dispute related to use of tactile sensations to stimulate the sense of touch in a user experience such as phone vibrations
• Global Fortune 10 consumer electronics company in multi-patent dispute related to memory and chip interconnect technology
• Global Fortune 10 consumer electronics company in multi-patent dispute related to navigation technology
• Surgical robotics company in patent dispute related to minimally invasive surgical robotics equipment technology
• Geospatial company in multi-patent dispute related to geospatial mapping and imaging technology
• International financial technology company in multi-patent dispute related to online payment systems and e-commerce coupon and discount technology
• Global Fortune 50 consumer electronics company in multi-patent dispute related to semiconductor technology
• Fast-growing pharmaceutical company in multi-patent Hatch-Waxman dispute related to cysteine hydrochloride injection technology for use as an additive to amino acid solutions
• Global Fortune 50 software company in multi-patent dispute related to software activation and installation technology
• International healthcare company in multi-patent dispute related to configurable software and license use technology
• Telecommunications company in multi-patent dispute related to telecommunications and standard-essential technologies
• Global company with a wide range of products and services in multi-patent dispute related to geofencing technology
• Global Fortune 500 consumer electronics company in multi-patent dispute related to name and address handling software technology
• Smart access solutions company in multi-patent dispute related to Internet of Things (IoT) and garage door opener technology