Firm Resume

Chao Hadidi Stark & Barker LLP is a law firm that provides sophisticated intellectual property and other legal advice to both established and early stage companies. The firm's practice includes appellate and district court litigation, patent portfolio analysis, due diligence, validity and infringement investigations and related opinion work, and intellectual property licensing.

All of the firm's partners have previously worked for first tier national law firms, allowing Chao Hadidi Stark and Barker to combine big firm expertise and experience with the attitude and responsiveness only available from a smaller firm. Both the courts and other law firms have recognized the firm's expertise by retaining its partners to serve in the roles of special master, expert witness, patent co-counsel and pro bono appellate counsel.

Bernard Chao, Fred Hadidi, Jon Stark and Bruce Barker all have technical degrees in either electrical engineering or physics and have advised a broad range of clients, including those in the semiconductor, nanotechnology, energy, telecommunications, wireless, optoelectronics, networking, development systems, computer security software, color image processing, video and audio compression technology, and mass spectrometry.