Litigation Support

I am an electrical engineer with over 30 years of experience in the electronics industry. I have written expert reports, provided expert witness statements, and testified as an expert witness in patent infringement cases. You may download a list of the cases I have worked on in PDF format. The following list highlights my litigation support services.

Patent Litigation

• Consult on the technical aspects of claims construction

• Analyze products, software, hardware, documentation, and other evidence and provide objective technical opinions concerning the infringement of a patent

• Produce expert reports and declarations

• Analyze prior art and provide objective technical opinions concerning the validity of a patent

• Consult on prior art searches, assessment of prior art, and validity contentions.

• Provide expert testimony in deposition, at hearings, and at trial

Product Investigation

• Analyze engineering documentation

• Analyze marketing documents

• Analyze electronic circuit block diagrams and schematics

• Analyze hardware description in VHDL and Verilog

• Analyze software/firmware source code

• Perform tests and measurements

• Verify performance specifications

• Investigate design flaws and product failures

Patent Prosecution

• Assess the technical aspects of a proposed application

• Perform experiments

• Help draft the specification

Litigation Consulting

• Assess the engineering issues in your case

• Develop a technical strategy

• Prepare technical questions for depositions or trials

• Develop tutorial presentations and exhibits

• Perform experiments

• Research technical issues and background information

Technical Contracts

• Assess the technical aspects of a contract

• Negotiate technical requirements

• Resolve contract disputes

• Assess technical performance

• Interpret contract technical requirements