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

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).

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 wrote and prosecuted patents for a Scottish company on breakthrough imaging technology that won the Queen's Award for Enterprise (2008).

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.  

Honors & Awards

• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008-2009)
• Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2008-2009)

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

• Boston IP American Inn of Court
• Engineering Advisory Board, Lehigh University
• Past Co-Chair BBA IP Law Section

• Massachusetts
• England and Wales
• 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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