Ed is a highly experienced patent attorney who represents many prominent corporations, universities, and individuals. Ed engages in patent and trademark prosecution, licensing, export control compliance, and patent litigation in the fields of telecommunications, computer hardware and software, data security, cryptography, and semiconductor processing. He successfully represented the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in litigation defending MIT’s famous RSA patent, the basic patent in public key cryptography. He has authored over 45 publications in cryptography and the law, patent harmonization, and other topics; and has given over 50 lectures at legal and scientific symposia.

Ed has a particular interest in international patenting, and has worked with the American Bar Association in this area for many years. He represented the ABA at the Diplomatic Conference to Adopt the Patent Law Treaty, held in Geneva, Switzerland. He is proficient in French.

He was formerly a partner with Fenwick & West LLP and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, and the Patent Counsel of Ford Aerospace Corporation. He served as a law clerk on the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. 

Ed has dedicated his professional career to helping individuals, startups, established corporations, and universities protect, develop, and monetize their intellectual property, and comply with export control laws. The following are among the clients he has represented:

• Apple

• Canon KK

• Ford

• NTT

• Space Systems/Loral

• Varian

• MIT

• Stanford University

• Washington University

• Symantec

• Cryptography Research

• Direct Flow Medical

• Cool Dry

• Ernest Brickell

• Jerome Svigals

• Robert Lewis Jackson, Jr.

• Vadium

• Innovar

• BroadSpot Imaging