With a background in intellectual property, optics, and photonics, this expert provides expert witness services with over 30 years of experience in matters involving licensing, assertion, and defense of optical and medical technologies. Their work includes consultation and courtroom testimony in disputes involving patent infringement, validity, and licensing, with experience supporting both plaintiff and defendant positions in intellectual property matters.

Their technical expertise spans multiple interconnected domains within optical and photonic systems. Core areas of analysis include optoelectronics, light-emitting diodes, lasers and external cavity lasers, lightguides and waveguides, planar lightwave circuits, integrated optics, optical fibers, optical fibers with shaped end faces, beam steering, and on-chip optical communications, as well as fiber optic connectors and optical communications systems. Additional experience includes diffractive optics and integrated optical systems used in communications and sensing applications. Their work also extends to biophotonics and medical technologies, including biomedical imaging, light-tissue interaction, molecular imaging, endoscopes, fiber optic catheters, and laser-delivery optical fibers.

In intellectual property matters, their work involves claim construction, infringement and invalidity positions, prior art evaluation, reverse engineering, and development of claim charts and technical analyses. Experience includes participation in federal court litigation, inter partes reviews, ex parte and inter partes reexaminations, and arbitration, including service as a neutral technical expert. Their work also includes patent licensing, patent prosecution, and representation before the United States Patent Office, as well as development of licensing programs and commercialization of optical and medical technologies. Contributions include invention of 56 issued U.S. patents, along with numerous granted foreign patents and pending U.S. patents in photonics and healthcare. Educational background includes a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, and an Associate of Science in Physics. Credentials include registration to practice before the United States Patent Office.