Expert Witness
Six years experience providing expert opinions, testimony, and IP counseling on a wide variety of technologies.
- Engaged by top US IP firms and litigators
- Broad base of expertise deriving from diversity of academic research and industrial development activities
- Specializing in matters demanding in-depth knowledge and experience across multiple technical disciplines
- Exceptional facility for presenting complex technology concepts to non-practitioners
Services
- Objective expert opinions and testimony serving both counsel for litigation parties and courts
- Technology tutoring at the individual level or to large groups. Custom-configured short courses on a broad range of high-level topics in science, engineering, and technology
- Reverse engineering, detailed technical analysis, and testing of consumer and commercial products to address questions of infringement
- Intellectual property assessment and counseling for investor due diligence and pre-litigation risk assessment
Expertise areas
(See also Consulting tab.)
- Optics and optical systems
- Microelectronics fabrication processes and technologies
- Optical telecommunications
- Embedded systems
- Optical disk technologies
- Liquid crystal technologies
- LC and other modern display technologies
- Optoelectronic systems and integration
- Integrated circuit design
- Memory technologies
- Advanced packaging
- Video and audio processing and coding
Experience overview
- Testimony on the witness stand (International Trade Commission)
- 6 depositions
- 12 Expert Reports
- 17 litigation matters
- Subject matter: Flash memory architecture, DRAM design, Optoelectronic packaging, Liquid crystal displays, Display controllers, Optical disk players, Semiconductor fabrication processes, Fiber optic transceivers, Video processing
Representative IP consulting and litigation support engagements
Below are summarized a subset of IP-related projects.
(See Consulting tab for technical consulting activities.)
Testifying Expert, International Trade Commission matter
Engaged by counsel for a major global manufacturer of video signal processing chips
- Suit brought against multiple respondents on the use of line buffers in upscaling and downscaling images
- Technology tutorial explaining patents in suit to the Court
- Reverse-engineering of nearly 1M lines of Verilog and VHDL code, and tens of thousands of lines of firmware code in C. Synthesis of detailed understanding of display controller implementation as practiced by three competing organizations
- Reports on validity and infringement
- Preparation of sophisticated demonstratives for trial
- Testimony on the stand
Consulting Expert, International Trade Commission matter
Engaged by counsel for a major global manufacturer of optical disk controller chips
- Patents-in-suit concerning optical disk drive technology: shock detection and recovery, buffering, automatic firmware update via download, optical pickup control in seeking and following
- Mixed-signal probing of disk drive during playback of specially coded source material to expose SDRAM buffer activity; subsquent filing of declaration regarding infringement
- Reverse-engineering of hundreds of thousands of lines of Verilog hardware code and tens of thousands of lines of firmware code in C. Synthesis of detailed and comprehensive understanding of accused product operation with regard to asserted claims of patents-in-suit.
- Support to counsel on detailed and complex technical matters bearing on the question of infringement
Testifying Expert, Federal District Court matter, Eastern District of Texas
Engaged by counsel for a major global optical disk drive manufacturer responding to a suit brought by an individual
- Patents-in-suit concerning identification of inserted disk type
- Thorough prior art search and report on validity of asserted patents
- Reverse-engineering of tens of thousands of lines of C and C++ code governing disk drive controller operation; Synthesis of detailed understanding of disk identification procedure
- Expert reports on validity and infringement
Pre-litigation IP assessment
Engaged by counsel for a major global electronic components manufacturer to assess licensing demands and a litigation threat by a patent holding company
- Study of plasma-physical aspects of microelectronics fabrication processes employed in manufacturer's fabrication flows to determine operating regimes of accused processes
- Claim interpretation to determine scope of patents; comparison of manufacturer's plasma processing operating regimes with appropriately interpreted claims
- Report embodying opinion on claim interpretation, relevance, and validity of patents
Patent portfolio evaluation
Engaged by private IP development organization to evaluate patent portfolio in optical fiber technology
- Technologies: Fiber optic probes, Raman spectroscopy, optical filters, tunable lasers, optical endoscopy
- Opinion on commercial value and viability window of patents; ranking and classification of patents with regard to potential value and application areas
IP risk assessment
Engaged by small display manufacturer to evaluate litigation risks of a new product design prior to closing a manufacturing deal
- Analysis of product design in light of prior art
- Opinion on claim interpretation, relevance, and validity of third-party patents
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