Ed Walsh works with electrical and computer-related clients in IP strategy development and execution, including patent prosecution, clearances and counseling, IP portfolio management, dispute resolution through Patent Office post-grant proceedings or litigation, licensing, consulting agreements, and joint development agreements. His areas of technical expertise include software and SaaS, wireless communication and signal processing, Internet implemented inventions, networks, semiconductor processing and high-speed circuit design, and connectors and interconnection technology.
View profileTwo recent events will drive big changes in ongoing and future post-grant trials (IPR, PGR and CBM). The PTAB has just announced that it intends to abandon the “broadest reasonable” claim interpretati...
In DSS Technology Management v. Apple, the Federal Circuit reversed a holding of unpatentability of claims that the PTAB considered plainly obvious in an IPR. The Federal Circuit found that merely sta...