Marc Elliot Hankin

Marc E. Hankin, Esq., of HPL- Intellectual Property Law, is a Registered Patent Attorney with a strong science background who has had extensive involvement as the lead lawyer in all areas of intellectual property law, including:  patent preparation and prosecution; patent licensing; trademark and copyright registration and licensing; intellectual property disputes and litigating patent, trademark, and copyright infringements; as well as domain name disputes, thefts of trade secrets, and other federal and state unfair competition. Marc has been the First Chair Litigator on a wide variety of intellectual property matters for companies and universities ranging in size from solo inventors to start-ups through the top of the Fortune 500, and every size in between.  Marc has testified at Trial and Deposition several times as an Expert Witness and has served as a Special Assistant Attorney General regarding an Intellectual Property matter.

Marc advises owners and managers of businesses of all sizes on how best to protect their valuable technology and creative works, through patent prosecution, trademark registration, copyright registration, licensing agreements, trade secret protection, and related means.

Marc has been involved as an active Member and frequent Chair of Committees/Subcommittees for numerous local, state, national, and international Bar Associations. Marc spent more than nine years representing several of those International Bar Associations as the only U.S. Patent Attorney involved from start to finish in the negotiations at The Hague Conference on Private International Law, resulting in a new International Treaty on Choice of Courts Agreements for use in international litigation, including Intellectual Property disputes. Marc is admitted to the State and Federal Bars of California & New Jersey, and a dozen U.S. District & Appellate Courts.