Edward J. Kelly Partner Ropes & Gray One International Place Boston, MA 02110-2624 T + 1-617-951-7532 F + 1-617-235-0703 + 1-617-854-2574 secretary E-mail

PRACTICES Corporate Life Sciences Technology Company Venture Capital Intellectual Property Consumer Products & Services Electronics, Computers & Software Financial Services Internet & e-Commerce Mechanical Engineering Medical Devices Patent Prosecution & Applications Portfolio Evaluation and Management Semiconductor Processing & Devices Telecommunications Trademarks, Copyright, Prosecution, & Licensing INDUSTRIES Colleges & Universities Life Sciences/Pharmaceutical Technology

Ed serves as counsel to international equipment manufacturers, medical device manufacturers and hardware and software developers.
   
Ed secures patent rights for microprocessors, systems for semiconductor and MEMs manufacturing, computer network technologies, furniture manufacturing systems, surgical instruments, orthopedic braces, radio-frequency cauterizing catheters, speech recognition systems and scientific instruments. He represents clients during investments, on legal opinions and with licensing. He wrote the chapter on open source licensing for the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Licensing Manual.
   
He has extensive experience before the Board of Appeals at the U.S. Patent Office, and has appeared in the Federal Courts to address disputes over patent rights, copyrights, trademarks and domain names.
  
Prior to becoming an attorney, Ed worked as a hardware and software design engineer in the Digital Signal Processing Group of Raytheon. Before joining Raytheon, he worked as a hardware and software design engineer at the Benjamin Franklin Institute for Robotics and in the medical electronic division of Hewlett-Packard.

Honors & Awards

• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008)
• Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2008)

• "PTO Patent Appeals Board Set to Raise Its Profile," National Law Journal, May 12, 2008
• "Open Source Licensing" AUTM Manual of Licensing Third Edition

• Engineering Advisory Board, Lehigh University
• Past Co-Chair BBA IP Law Section

• Massachusetts
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

• J.D., Boston College Law School
• B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Lehigh University

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