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  • The Stark & Stark Intellectual Property practice provides legal counsel for handling patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, technology transfers, audits, asset due diligence and related IP litigation matters. Our intellectual property attorneys safeguard your businesses intellectual property rights from competitors while maximizing the value of those rights.

    Practice Services

    Each Stark & Stark Intellectual Property attorney believes that the most valuable asset of your business is often its intellectual property. Increasingly, business owners are recognizing that explosive technological growth can imperil the core of a company’s identity and success: its creative ideas. Stark & Stark has assembled an experienced team of lawyers for intellectual property to counsel a diverse portfolio of business clients, from family-owned businesses to entrepreneurial high-tech ventures to multi-nationals. As an established New Jersey professional corporation on the cutting-edge of legal practice, we are well positioned and committed to counseling established and emerging regional, national and international businesses.

    Client-Driven Approach

    The Stark & Stark intellectual property team includes seasoned litigators who routinely address complex intellectual property issues, helping our clients identify, establish, and protect their intellectual property rights, while allowing their creative instincts to flourish within the context of your overall business goals and strategies.

    When your rights have been violated, we defend those rights in the federal and state courts, at the Patent and Trademark and Copyright offices or through alternative dispute resolution forums. Our business litigation department is led by Certified Civil Trial Attorneys, a distinction bestowed by the New Jersey Supreme Court. Our experienced intellectual property lawyers represent clients with an appreciation for the practical concerns of the industries we serve.

    Key Contacts

    Craig Hilliard
    609.895.7346
    Gene Markin
    609.895.7248
    Craig Hilliard

    Craig Hilliard

    Shareholder
    609.895.7346
    Gene Markin

    Gene Markin

    Shareholder
    609.895.7248
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    Firm News
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    Firm Highlights

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