Technical Leadership

• As a legal expert and leader in intellectual property. Dr. Hernandez has helped his clients include multi-million dollar licensing and settlements, including Mojo Mobility over $190M, Blue Radios over $20M, and many others with over $300M licenses and settlements.  As an expert,. Dr. Hernandez  has been invited to panels covering legal matters in cybersecurity, Artificial intelligence in several podcasts and webinars.,
• As a startup and tech leader, Dr. Hernandez funded and managed a technology Accelerator and incubator in Boca Raton FL, called EGLAVATOR. The EGLAVATOR was recognized as one of the tech hubs in South Florida and hosted events and over 80 startups from 2017 to 2023. Including, alumni as Points Kash with a multi-million dollar valuation and funding, or Guiltless with an appearance at “Elevator Pitch” TV Show.
• In 2024 Global Innovation Award nominations for his patents and technology accelerator, and other awards in Florida, from blockchain to augmented reality
• Hernandez has been recognized as the Inventor of Modern Wireless Handoff, a technology used by the entire 4G and 5G industries, in most mobile phones, connected cars, and other devices with licenses with Verizon Wireless, Cisco, DISH, Phone Carriers, Device Manufacturers, and others
• Judge for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona twice 2019 to 2020
• As leader in Streaming technologies, Dr. Hernandez’ and EGLA’s “Streaming Portfolio” is cited by several Cloud TV and streaming magazines for his multimedia streaming platforms that was instrumental in a $16M acquisition in 2014
• Education leadership as a Founder of HONDURAS GLOBAL, an organization helping STEM and other professional students with seminars in Honduras, and industry advisor to Florida Atlantic University, EECS School’s.
• Hernandez also produces TECHEDTV a technology news channel and podcast in Spanish and English

Biography

Dr. Edwin Hernandez is a highly accomplished entrepreneur,  startup expert, technology leader, and intellectual property expert.

As a startup and technology leader, Dr. Hernandez has lead teams of engineers and inspire teams to develop great products and services, since its days at Motorola and Microsoft, and the EGLAVATOR assisting teams of startups developing MVPs and assisting teams to form and present business plans to investors, and being an angel investor for many of these ventures.

As an intellectual property expert Dr. Hernandez has assisted startups to Fortune 500 corporations in more than 35+ Intellectual property cases. His clients have obtained success & significant wins earning millions of dollars in settlements and awards.

In 2025,  Dr. Hernandez testified in a case held in Denver’s federal court assisting Blue Radios at trial for a $24.8M award (Source: Nasdaq) against KOPIN Corp. Around the same time, Dr. Edwin was part of the Mojo Mobility legal team in a case involving wireless charging patents for a $192M award (Source: Reuters) at trial. In June 20205, Dr., Hernandez also assisted his client TOT Power control  on TPC patents for a $110M award (Source. Reuters). Dr. Edwin also testified in Delaware at trial assisting Intellectual Ventures against LG in a multi-million dollar licensing dispute, and has testified at trial for Tracktime and Real Caller in California for a $700K Award.

Dr. Edwin provides expert testimony and reports for cases in front of the PTAB court, ITC, US Federal circuit, and arbitrations.  Dr. Edwin disputes  have been against defendants such as :  T-Mobile, LG, NetApp, Verizon, Google, AT&T, Cisco, DISH, Samsung, LG, and many others

 

Dr. Hernandez has also testified as a Damages Expert  surviving Daubert challenges with many significant wins for his clients.  

Dr. Hernandez has participates in discussions, webinars, and panels with numerous attorneys including one with the  Attorney General of Nevada, Law Review Editors, and many other experts in the area of “Data Breaches & Their Impact on Litigation.”

 

Dr. Hernandez has also been a judge for the Mobile World Congress (MWC), where the GSMA award is issue worldwide, evaluating wireless and high-tech innovations in mobile systems in 4G and 5G. The  MWC is the world’s most iconic wireless event with 100,000 attendees. Dr. Hernandez also volunteers as a technical reviewer for academic journals, IEEE conferences, and other publications where he functions as an editorial board member. 

Dr. Hernandez also holds a Masters degree also in Electrical & Computer Engineering also from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology.  

As an entrepreneur, Dr. Edwin is the owner and founder of EGLA CORP a tech venture in Florida.. EGLA also owns its own technology incubator and accelerator called EGLAVATOR. For several years, the EGLAVATOR was a 10K square feet physical space with an accelerator located in Boca Raton, FL where several ventures and startups are being developed in the areas of LTE, 5G, Cloud, AI, Machine Learning, Crypto, Web 2, Web 3, Cybersecurity, Networking Protocols, Healthcare technologies, and others.  Recently, an EGLAVATOR alumni, PointsKash is making headlines converting loyalty points into crypto or cash with multiple partnerships; or Guiltless to Go, presented at the “Elevator Pitch” show.  Dr. Hernandez participates with several ventures as co-founder or investor.   

Dr. Edwin is a passionate for technology and innovation, a great software developer that still participates in Hackathons, Startup events, and marking its own prototypes.  In general, he enjoys 3D printing objects, software prototyping in several programming languages, solving math problems, linear algebra, and an avid reader.

Edwin volunteers as a reviewer for several international conference committees, editorial boards member for several journals & IEEE publications.  Dr. Edwin also holds an advisory role position in several companies, board of directors member, and volunteers for the “Industry Advisory Board“ for FAU’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department since 2017, and a board member of HONDURAS GLOBAL.

He also hosts his own magazine and TV Podcast series called TECHED.TV.   Dr. Hernandez was born in Honduras but is also a US Citizen. 

 

Licensing and Legal Disputes 

Technology Licensing Achievements

Highlights: Intellectual Property Expertise

1. Settlements and Licenses of his Mobility Portfolio to Verizon Wireless, CISCO, DISH, AT&T, T-Mobile, AT&T, Google, Apple, and other manufactures, plus major mobile phone manufacturers 2. Licensing campaigns for other patent portfolios on Media Streaming, Augmented Reality, HealthTech, and others. Continued Innovation with streaming portfolios and other technologies.

1. $700k award for Real Caller, Inc – Jury Trial in California – Trademark and Mobile Applications 2. $24.8M award for Blue Radios – Jury Trial in Denver, Co. – Trade Secrets and Patents 3. $192.M award for Mojo Mobility – Part of Experts team. 4. Jury Trial – TrackTime v. Amazon 5. Jury Trial – $17M licensing dispute between LG and Intellectual Ventures. 6. $110M award – TOT Power Control Client – in Delaware – Assisted Attorneys in Case-related Matters. Assisted over 40 cases with reports, code reviews, claim construction hearings, Daubert hearings, , IPRs, ITC, and many other procedures.