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Ed is a patent attorney with 25 years of experience being inside counsel, outside counsel, and a technology developer. He has been involved in all aspects of patent portfolio development, enforcement, and monetization. His current practice involves a limited number of focused engagements acting as a contracted leader of a subject company’s patent portfolio.He has a long history as a patent strategist, building highly valued patent portfolios, having developed an estimated $1.6B in patent portfolio value over six technology companies. The largest patent portfolios were sold with values ranging between $150 and $550M. His systematic “Matrix” methodology identifies a company’s patenting opportunities, prioritizes efforts, and tracks the growth of the portfolio and its value. The Matrix methodology has proven a cost-conscious portfolio development tool that maximizes flexibility while securing early filing dates for many inventions.As an inventor, Ed’s patents in vehicle navigation technology have been licensed within the auto industry. Experience in licensing these patents has brought him a unique client’s perspective of the process, including managing a monetization team, generating valuation models, creating incentives for early licensees, managing the pipeline, raising funding and litigation (including IPR). Ed is a named inventor on 88 issued patents in various technologies. One of his favorite patents is a single electrode discharge starting aid because it solved a problem that enabled a new class of lighting.Ed’s extensive experience as counsel, technology developer, and inventor, provide a unique value to technology companies looking to grow, enforce or monetize their portfolios as well as startups at the beginning of their path to innovation protection to maximize corporate value.

Listed skills include Licensing, Patents, Intellectual Property, Start Ups, and 13 others.