Ed helps companies build, protect, and enforce the intellectual property (IP) that drives their value. His practice spans patent, trademark, and copyright litigation; IP counseling; trademark prosecution; and technology law – giving clients an advisor who can secure their rights and defend them in court.
For more than 30 years, he has prosecuted more than 150 patent applications and more than 1,400 trademark registrations and litigated more than 170 IP cases. That combination is the difference for clients: because he knows how patents and trademarks are built, he knows where they break under attack – and how to attack an opponent's.
Before joining Baker Donelson, Ed co-founded a full-service IP and technology law firm in Tennessee. Over his career, he has designed IP protection programs for more than 40 companies, built trade secret protection plans, and led IP due diligence on numerous corporate transactions.
Clients rely on Ed not just to protect their IP, but to make it pay. He counsels clients on how to structure their portfolios and weigh the economic stakes of protection and enforcement, and he has delivered numerous patent studies – including freedom-to-operate, noninfringement, and invalidity opinions – along with more than 2,000 trademark use and registration opinions.
Ed is at the forefront of how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping IP law. He advises clients on the IP questions AI now forces them to confront: who owns AI-generated inventions and content, how to protect proprietary models and training data as trade secrets, the discoverability and privilege risks of AI prompts and outputs, and the rapidly developing law of secondary and contributory liability as it extends to AI tools. He teaches AI for Lawyers at the Nashville School of Law, was invited to author the Tennessee section of the Chambers Artificial Intelligence 2026 guide and speaks and writes nationally on the convergence of AI and IP. Clients turn to him not for theory, but for practical guidance on building IP strategies that hold up as the technology – and the law around it – keeps moving.
Ed also lends his experience pro bono, helping non-profit organizations protect their trademarks.