Edmund J. Walsh

Ed Walsh works with electrical and computer-related clients in IP strategy development and execution, including patent prosecution, clearances and counseling, IP portfolio management, litigation, licensing, consulting agreements, and joint development agreements. His areas of technical expertise include semiconductor processing and high-speed circuit design, wireless communication and signal processing, software, networks and network management, connectors and interconnection technology, and many types of test equipment.

• Conducted due diligence to support acquisition of technology developed on three continents.  Developed strategies to avoid risks that eight figure purchase price would be jeopardized by ambiguities in technology ownership. 
• Designed licensing and patent portfolio program resulting in leading technology client's use of competitors to sell its product to gain market acceptance while retaining benefits of technology investment.
• Guided client in responding to demand for nine figure payment from patentee holding over 100 patents relating to wireless technology, evaluated whether portfolio represented threat or opportunity, and negotiated satisfactory resolution with patent holder.
• Defended reexamination of patent, initiated by infringer, and received confirmation from U.S. Patent Office that infringed claims are patentable.
• Advised manufacturer in designing around patent portfolio held by competitor and aided client dealing with customers threatened by patent holder.

Ed Walsh served over 14 years as in-house counsel for technology companies, including Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Teradyne, a position he held for 10 years. Before working for Teradyne, Ed served as Division IP Counsel for Textron Specialty Materials and as a patent attorney for Raytheon.

Prior to entering law school, Ed worked as an electrical engineer, developing operating system software and analyzing communications systems.

American Bar Association

Boston Patent Law Association

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

MIT $100K

• Mentor

University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Technology Innovation Challenge, judge

Intellectual Property Owners Association

• Corporate IP Management Committee

National Science Foundation Fellow

Ed was an Adjunct Professor and Lecturer in electrical engineering at Boston University.

Boston University, B.S., Electrical Engineering

Stanford University, M.S., Electrical Engineering

Suffolk University Law School, J.D.

Massachusetts

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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