An intellectual property attorney, business executive, inventor, and expert witness with more than 50 years of experience, this professional addresses intellectual property strategy, patent analytics, licensing, valuation, enforcement, and portfolio management across technology-driven industries. More than 20 years of expert witness experience includes consultations, expert reports, depositions, courtroom testimony, arbitration testimony, and evidentiary hearings in more than 70 matters. Engagements have involved patent infringement, trade secrets, trademarks, copyright, licensing disputes, legal malpractice, fiduciary duties, reasonable royalties, willful infringement, inequitable conduct, FRAND and RAND licensing, and standards governing intellectual property and patent practice.

The expert is a co-founder, managing director, senior intellectual property counsel, and independent consultant. He evaluates competitive patent landscapes, performs patent valuation and validity or infringement studies, develops customized technology-sector databases, and advises on strategic intellectual property planning and the acquisition, sale, licensing, and management of patent assets. Industry experience encompasses telecommunications, wireless systems, semiconductors, computers and peripherals, software, video games and gaming systems, medical devices, consumer electronics, mass storage, plasma display technologies, consumer packaging, high-throughput compound discovery, and CAD-based metal-folding technologies. Earlier leadership positions included heading intellectual property and licensing functions for major technology and medical-device companies, managing worldwide patent and technology matters, directing litigation and anti-counterfeiting programs, and overseeing teams responsible for patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, and related intellectual property disputes.

Educational attainment includes a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Juris Doctor with honors, and a Master of Business Administration. Professional credentials include admission to four state bars, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court, together with the Certified Licensing Professional designation. Authority roles have included appointment to a federal intellectual property trade-policy advisory committee, participation in patent reform and intellectual property policy working groups, service on the board of the Licensing Executives Society’s Silicon Valley Chapter, and involvement with organizations focused on intellectual property understanding and innovation policy. The expert is also a co-inventor on 29 issued U.S. patents and 64 patents worldwide involving intellectual property analytics, document and data management, packaging, and manufacturing technologies.c