Ryan, Dennis Patrick

Ed is a successful prosecutor and highly experienced in IP strategy. He has counseled a range of clients in developing strategic and cost-effective patent rights, from those with significant and complex IP portfolios to smaller clients and startup companies. 

Ed is skilled in the fields of networking, network management, software patents, business method patents and Internet-based technology, as well as Internet and casino gaming patents, social networking systems, analog and digital circuits, instrumentation and control systems, encoding techniques, electronic devices, semiconductor design and fabrication, and telecommunications. He handles invalidity studies, litigation support, and patent reexamination proceedings, especially in the software and networking areas, where he has significant industry experience. In addition, Ed has represented clients in several open source and other software licensing issues.

Ed practices in the areas of intellectual property counseling and licensing, and has performed a substantial number of studies of Fortune 50 companies’ products and played a significant role in license negotiations with these companies. Ed also has patent preparation and prosecution experience in many different technical areas, including databases, social networking systems, storage technologies, network management, user interfaces, process control, markup languages, and artificial intelligence.