Darrick J. Hooker

Darrick J. Hooker


Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Recognized since 2023

Chicago, Illinois

Practice Areas

Trade Secrets Law

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With a reputation for having an in-depth understanding of his client’s businesses and their technologies, Darrick Hooker is a counselor and a litigator who routinely advises clients on a variety of intellectual property issues, with a focus on patents. He also helps protect clients’ trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights and has a thriving commercial litigation and entertainment law practice.

Darrick strives to help his clients identify and manage their global IP assets. He is able to do this successfully as a result of his deep transactional and litigation experience, including but not limited to, the medical device, pharmaceutical, health care, computer software, chemical, mechanical device, industrial, renewable energy, utility, mechanical engineering, and automotive and transportation industries.

Darrick assists his clients with licensing, risk assessment and management, internal governance, compliance, and due diligence investigations in connection with licensing transactions, mergers and acquisitions. He brings particular strength where intellectual property portfolio acquisitions involve issues of licensing and “freedom to practice” analyses of products, methods, and packaging. This includes conducting patent landscape investigations, and opinion work such as patentability, validity, non-infringement, and freedom-to-operate opinions.

He is also skilled in conducting initial case evaluation and assessment, developing case and trial strategy and settlement options, managing all phases of discovery, as well as with Markman hearings, trial, and post-trial proceedings and appeal.

As a commercial litigator, Darrick represents clients in matters involving complex cybersecurity, product liability and premises liability, along with breach of commercial agreements. In the entertainment sphere, he advises on intellectual property, licensing and other contract rights, publishing rights, rights of publicity, and branding issues.

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Location
  • One North Wacker Drive, Suite 4400
    Chicago, IL 60606-2833
Education
  • Indiana University Maurer School of Law, J.D., graduated 2001

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Trade Secrets Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Copyright Law
  • Litigation - Intellectual Property
  • Litigation - Patent
  • Trademark Law

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