Ed provides intellectual property advice, legal opinions and strategies for securing patents, trademarks and copyrights to a broad range of clients.
Ed works with a number of clients, protecting IP related to drug delivery devices, including insulin pumps and mechanical syringes, 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 also represents clients during investments, on legal opinions and with licensing. He has extensive experience before the Board of Appeals at the U.S. Patent Office, and before the examining and opposition division of the European Patent Office.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Ed worked as a hardware and software design engineer in the Signal Processing Group of Raytheon. Before Raytheon, he worked at the Benjamin Franklin Institute for Robotics developing mechanical and electrical robotic systems. Prior to that, he worked at the medical electronic division of Hewlett-Packard (now Philips).
- Wrote and prosecuted patents for a Scottish company on breakthrough imaging technology that won the Queen's Award for Enterprise (2008).
- Represented Avaya, TPG and Silverlake on the $900 Million acquisition of Nortel’s Enterprise business, including acquisition and licensing of several thousand patents related to telecommunications and mobile devices.
- Represented a U.S. software company as patent proprietor in an opposition before the EPO, successfully defending the patent.
- Represented a U.S. medical device manufacturer in a 2011 re-examination proceeding before the U.S. Patent Office, successfully securing affirmation of patent claims simultaneously being litigated in U.S. Federal Court.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008-2011)
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2008-2011)
- Patent Research Review, Named one of 2011 America's Top Patent Prosecutors
Professional & Civic Activities
- Boston IP American Inn of Court
- Engineering Advisory Board, Lehigh University
- Past Co-Chair BBA IP Law Section
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Education
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JD, Boston College Law School,
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BS (Electrical Engineering), Lehigh University,
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- England and Wales, Solicitor
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- European Patent Office
Courts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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