Biography
Eda Stark concentrates her practice on representing 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 served as an associate at an international law firm and at a global intellectual property law firm. Eda has also worked as an in-house counsel in the aerospace industry focused on legal issues surrounding commercial human space travel.
During 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.
Before beginning her legal career, Eda spent nearly a decade as a scientist in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, where she worked to develop treatments for neurological and ophthalmic diseases.
Experience
- 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
Affiliations
Memberships
- Federal Circuit Bar Association
- Chiefs in Intellectual Property (“ChIPs”) Network
- Federal Circuit Historical
- Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court
- ITC Trial Lawyers Association
Credentials
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court - Western District of Texas
- United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Education
- Smith College, BA
- Suffolk University Law School, JD, cum laude