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.
Credentials
Education
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, B.S./B.A, Chemistry/Latin, 1997
- Indiana University Maurer School of Law, J.D., 2000, Order of Barristers, managing editor of Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Illinois Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Clerkships
- HonorableMargaret G. Robb, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit