Ed Green

Current

Member (partner) at Coats + Bennett, PLLC

Past

Associate at Intellectual Property/Technology Law
Engineer at IBM
Engineer at Sun Microsystems

Engineer at Olivetti
Engineer at Lockheed
Field Engineer at Gearhart, Inc.

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Education

North Carolina Central University School of Law
Tennessee Technological University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Law Practice

Websites

My Company

Ed Green’s Summary

Patent preparation and prosecution, with particular expertise in the electronics arts. Patentability, patent (in)validity, and freedom to practice opinions. Counseling on all intellectual property legal issues. Copyright/trademark registration/prosecution, opinions, and enforcement.

Ed Green’s Specialties:

I have prepared and prosecuted over 175 patents in wireless communications, processor architecture, memory circuits, laser printers, robotics, software, and various mechanical designs.

Prior to that, I practiced design engineering for 15 years, including processor architecture (SPARC & PowerPC), bus design (CoreConnect), memory systems, video capture/compression (SunVideo), and system design.

Ed Green’s Experience

Member (partner)

Coats + Bennett, PLLC

(Law Practice industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )

Coats + Bennett is a small "patent boutique" law firm, with a strong emphasis on patent preparation and prosecution in the electronic and mechanical arts. Due to the technical and legal experience and expertise of our professionals, a low cost structure, and our obsession with terse, succinct claim language, we offer outstanding value in obtaining meaningful patent protection. We leverage internet and communications technology to provide the same "next door" service to clients in San Diego, the Bay Area, Canada, and France as our local clients enjoy.
Associate

Intellectual Property/Technology Law

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Legal Services industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

IPTL has a strong chemical/biotech/life sciences practice. Great firm; just not the best fit for a EE like myself...
Engineer

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Hardware industry)

1994 — 1999 (5 years )

The PowerPC Embedded Processor Solutions (PEPS) group developed a line of embedded controllers utilizing the PowerPC architecture. I worked on bus definition (CoreConnect) and designed the OPB arbiter and PLB-OPB bus bridge. A big part of that group is now at Qualcomm in RTP. For most of my time at IBM, I was clandestinely attending law school 3 nights a week.
Engineer

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

1990 — 1994 (4 years )

SPARC processor design group (California). I designed an MMU for a SPARC that never got built, and did the gate level verification on microSPARC (Tsunami). I moved to North Carolina and joined an erstwhile graphics group that turned to video capture and compression (SunVideo); I designed part of the controller ASIC. Then Sun axed the whole group.
Engineer

Olivetti

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1988 — 1990 (2 years )

Ciao. In the late 80s the Italian computer company Olivetti sent ~30 engineers to Menlo Park to design a super-minicomputer. A few of them even spoke some English. I did the memory controller (with write queue snooping and out-of-order writes to support multi-processor cache coherency). After that, we designed a workstation around the Intel i860... except during the World Cup. I rode out the '89 earthquake in that office.
Engineer

Lockheed

(Public Company; LMT; Defense & Space industry)

1985 — 1988 (3 years )

Remember SDI (a/k/a Star Wars)? I worked in Avionics on Remote Piloted Vehicles (Aquila) and built a test lab for a phased-array, steerable-beam radar antenna. I moved to the Applied Physics Lab in Palo Alto, which did some interesting instrumentation and data acquisition projects at some place called "the test site" in Nevada. Declining defense appropriations and talk of a nuclear test ban led me to the commercial computer industry.
Field Engineer

Gearhart, Inc.

(Environmental Services industry)

1984 — 1985 (1 year )

Well logging. I provided downhole data acquisition and analysis services for companies and individuals (wildcats) drilling oil wells -- that is, I mapped and analyzed properties of subsurface formations and determined at which depth(s) the oil or gas deposits were located. I worked in Lafayette, LA; Ft. Worth, TX; and Bakersfield, CA. The year after I left the oil industry, crude went from $27/bbl to $12. Not bad timing, huh?

Ed Green’s Education

North Carolina Central University School of Law

JD , Intellectual Property , 1995 — 1999

summa cum laude Rank: 3rd out of 100 or so. I attended the evening program, while working a full-time engineering job at IBM.

Activities and Societies:

Law Review, Chair of IP Society, Trademark Moot Court
Tennessee Technological University

BSEE , Digital Electronics, English Lit. , 1980 — 1984

Activities and Societies:

IEEE

Additional Information

Ed Green’s Websites:

My Company

Ed Green’s Interests:

Motorcycling, Flying, Shooting Sports, Guitar, Photography

Ed Green’s Groups:

IEEE
NC Bar Association
Triangle Intellectual Property Law Association
Federalist Society
Denizens of Doom

Sun Alumni
Internet Society
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Mobile Insiders
Electrical/Electronics and Computer Development Engineers Group
The Official IEEE Group
Killer Idea Developers (KID)
Analog Mixed-Signal and RF (AMS/RF) IC Design and Development Group
Semiconductor Professional's Group
RFID Professionals
Society for Computers and Law
jurists of the world
Patent Law Group
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Musicians
VLSI Design
Olivetti Alumni
Denizens of Doom, MC
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)
Supporters of the NRA
Tennessee Tech University Alumni Association
IP Lawyers
North Carolina Central University School of Law
LOCKHEED MARTIN CONNECTIONS
HAPPY LAWYERs
Coats + Bennett IP Law Group
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
Intellectual Property Protection
Guitar Players
North Carolina Bar Association
Litigation Support Invitational Motorcycling Club
RTPconnected
Aviation Enthusiasts' Business Networking Group-RTP, NC