Edward J. Kelly
Of Counsel - Director of Asian Operations
LGP AsiaLevel 29, The Offices at CentralWorld
999/9 Rama I Road
Bangkok 10330 Thailand
Thai mobile: +6684 123 2246
US mobile: +1 831 915 8835
Practice Areas:
- Intellectual Property Enforcement (Foreign)
- Intellectual Property Dispute Resolution (Foreign)
- Transactional IP (Licensing, Tech Transfer and Franchising)
- Government Relations and Law Enforcement Training (Foreign)
- Pharmaceutical Law and Regulation (Foreign)
- Cross-Border Intellectual Property Consultation
- Private Client Services
Professional and Community Activities:
- Member Expert Advisory Board, Southeast Asia Investigations and Social and Humanitarian Activities (SISHA), Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Bangkok, Thailand (www.sisha.org)
Education:
- LL.M.-- International Legal Studies – Golden Gate University School of Law (2000)
- J.D. -- Boston University School of Law (1991)
- B.A. – Duke University (1988)
- Certificates in Internet Intelligence (Cambridge University), Critical Issues in Business Planning (Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration, Chulalongkorn University) and Executive Leadership (Center for Creative Leadership)
Prior Professional Experience:
- Partner & Chief Relationship Officer -- Tilleke & GibbIns International Ltd, Bangkok, Thailand
- Director, Global Contracts and Export Administration – Harris Corporation, Silicon Valley CA
- Partner and Trial Counsel – Kelly, Rode & Kelly, Metropolitan NY
Additional Information of Interest:
- Admitted to practice, U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
- Admitted to practice, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- Admitted to New York Bar (1992)
- Admitted to California Bar (2000)
- Recipient, Victor J Garo Award for Public and Humanitarian Service, conferred by the Boston University School of Law, October 7, 2009.
- Author, book entitled "Inside the Minds: IP Client Strategies in Asia/Australia", published by Thomson Reuters, Summer 2009
- Judge, The 2008 and 2010 Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition, February 2008 and March 2010
- Featured as a leading lawyer in intellectual property in Chambers Asia 2008, 2009
- Identified as pre-eminent practitioner in the field of patent law in the Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Law Practitioners, in association with Managing Intellectual Property, 2007 (7th edition) and 2009 (8th edition)
- Identified as pre-eminent practitioner in the field of trademark law in the Guide to the World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners, in association with Managing Intellectual Property, 2006 (6th edition), 2008 (7th edition)
- Ranked as a "Recommended individual" in Intellectual Property and Life Sciences: Intellectual Property by Which Lawyer? Yearbook, 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions
- Identified by the AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers Survey as one of Asia's leading business lawyers in the area of Intellectual Property, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Selected by the editorial board of Aspatore Books as a leading patent lawyer and an author in the book, International Patent Law, published by Aspatore Books, released in March 2005
- Listed in The Asia Pacific Legal 500 as a leading individual in the area of Intellectual Property in Thailand, 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007-2008 editions.