Jed provides transactional counseling in relation to intellectual property issues that arise in a wide range of corporate transactions.  Leveraging a deep understanding of intellectual property law and commercial sensibilities across a variety of industries, Jed advises clients on stand-alone licensing arrangements, the acquisition and sale of privately and publicly owned companies, and the formation of joint ventures and technology collaborations within the United States and across borders.  Clients regularly call on Jed to lead the complex negotiations of IP provisions necessary to implement these transactions and to manage the related diligence processes.  He has supported deals across a wide range of industries, including in the automotive, nuclear power, medical device, computing and telecommunications, health care, and consumer products industries.

Jed also advises clients regarding strategic patent portfolio development and counsels them in relation to patent enforcement strategies and defense against threatened patent infringement litigation. Jed has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the fields of computer networking, wireless networking, video displays, medical devices, speech processing, MEMS devices, business methods, semiconductor processing, optical devices, video surveillance and software.

While in law school, Jed was a contributing editor for the Michigan Law Review. He also participated in the Jessup International Law Moot Court.

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• Represented LG Chem (via Lee & Ko) on IP aspects of their acquisition of the DuPont’s Soluble OLED technology.
• Negotiated the IP acquisition and licensing provisions of an acquisition by a private equity-backed strategic buyer of an enterprise solutions business out of a bankrupt telecommunications giant.
• Advised a multinational automation systems provider on the IP provisions of its collaboration agreement with a company focused on engineering technologies for autonomous driving.

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