Intellectual Property Expert Witnesses

This highly-qualified expert earned his JD from the University of Michigan and has focused his career around trademark and intellectual property law. Formerly, this expert has a number of years of experience as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati and the University of California, Hastings. He has additional experience as an assistant professor and associate professor at the Northern Kentucky University, before serving as a professor of intellectual property law at the University of San Francisco. Here, he was the director of the center for the empirical study of trademark law and the institute for IP and technology law. Currently, this expert is a professor of intellectual property law, business, marketing and advertising at a university in California, where he is also the director of the center for the empirical study of consumer perceptions. This expert additionally serves as a consultant on trademark and patent infringement matters with two private consulting groups.

This Washington-based expert has over 20 years of experience in chemistry and medical device research, specializing in polymer synthesis, polymer characterization, analytical chemistry, medical device design and intellectual property management. He received his BES in chemistry and photographic sciences from St. Cloud State University before earning his PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Southern California. He is active in his field as a member of the American Chemical Society, is a highly-published author on the topics of polymer chemistry and medical devices, and holds 65 patents that have enhanced the field of polymer chemistry. Previously, he has served as a polymer chemist and then a senior polymer chemist at Medtronic, an adjunct professor of polymer chemistry at the University of St. Thomas, and a senior scientist at DexCom Inc. He also formerly served as an associate professor and then a professor of chemistry, as well the assistant dean of the college of science and technology and the interim assistant vice president and dean of graduate studies at Bloomsburg University. Currently, he serves as the vice president of intellectual property at a technology research lab in WA.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the bicycle industry. He has expertise across a variety of bicycle-related areas, including bicycle and triathlon event safety, analysis of bicycle crashes and accident sites, product failures, and bicycle-related intellectual property matters such as patents and trademarks. He earned his BS in mechanical engineering from the State University of York at Buffalo, is a registered patent agent, and currently holds 4 patents involving the engineering and design of bicycle products. He began his career in the bicycle industry as the race director for WPI Criterium, as well as a product manager for Alden Laboratories, where he was involved in all aspects of bicycle saddle products. This expert then served as the president of CC Kinetics Inc. while also working as a freelance writer and editor for multiple bicycle-related publications. During this time, he also served as the race director for the Great Lakes Cycling Classic, the Sprague Brook Park Cyclocross, and the Longsjo Classic. Currently, this expert serves as the registered patent agent and business principal for a patent agency based in Vermont. He is also the lead announcer for several competitive and recreational cycling events and an elite-level competitive cyclist competing in at least one sanctioned race per year.

This expert has been involved in the LED industry since 2005. He managed the patent portfolio for Color Kinetics and enjoyed considerable success in building out a functional licensing program for the world-wide LED industry. He went on to be the IP Strategist and GM of Custom Solutions for Lighting Science Group. Since 2010 he has worked as an independent advisor to a wide range of LED companies in North America, Europe, and Asia, focusing on IP strategy, product development, new market entry, fund-raising, and related activities. He is a former instructor in IP strategy for the Licensing Executive Society. He currently serves on technical advisory boards and boards of directors for LED lighting companies in the US and Europe, and remains active in assisting both young and established companies in the pursuit of their goals for growth.'

This expert is the head of a successful practice that is experienced in reviewing and testifying in state and federal complex civil litigation. More than 400 engagements and 70 testimonies. Specializations include loss of earnings in tort cases (personal injury, wrongful death, employment disputes) and loss of profits or business value in contract breach and intellectual property commercial cases. Past work done for plaintiff and defense attorneys in similar proportion.

Since graduating from Northwestern Law School, this expert has worked as a corporate attorney for over 12 years. He has extensive experience advising as to SEC-registered and exempt transactions, including initial public offerings, common and preferred equity offerings and debt offerings. Additionally, he has worked in large, prestigious law firms such as Sidley Austin and also worked at the U.S. Treasury Department on the Troubled Asset Relief Program. He currently is the founder of a law firm in New York City that specializes in offering corporate and securities law assistance to middle-market businesses and venture capital/private equity funds, frequently advising as to registration, disclosure, compliance and operational issues. The firm also prepares and negotiates a variety of contracts for its clients, from asset purchase agreements to non-disclosure agreements to real estate contracts of sale. He is an adjunct professor at a NJ Law School, where he teaches various corporate law-related courses, has had articles published in the ABA Business Law Today journal, and regularly teaches continuing legal education classes (CLE).

This highly-qualified expert in bankruptcy law has over 15 years of experience in his field, with extensive experience in myriad commercial law matters, including bankruptcy, contract disputes, commercial loans, financial restructuring, fiduciary duties, fraudulent transfer law, corporate responsibility, leveraged buyouts, and securities. He earned his BA in business administration from the University of Miami and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. He is active in his field with 8 peer-reviewed journal articles published with a focus on corporate bankruptcy. In addition, his recent publications have been recognized by the Harvard Law School Bankruptcy Roundtable and have appeared in the University of Connecticut Law Review, the University of Cincinnati Law Review, and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Before joining academia, he practiced complex financial restructuring at Latham & Watkins and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in Los Angeles and Baker Botts in Houston. While in private practice, he participated in cases involving Lehman Brothers and Trump Hotel & Casino Resorts. He then transitioned to academia, serving as an associate professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School. During the 2018-2019 academic year, this expert was a Fulbright Schuman Scholar and served as a visiting professor at the University of Oxford Law School. Currently, he is a professor of law and the co-director of the Center for Business Law & Innovation at a law school in Oregon, as well as the editor-in-chief for a major law publication.

This expert has over 40 years of experience in the patent field. He spent 33 years in the USPTO starting as a patent examiner and working his way through the ranks to become the Commissioner for Patents in March 2000. After retirement from government service, this expert was the executive advisor at the intellectual property law firm of Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch LLP. His practice included advising clients on USPTO practices and procedures and acting as an expert witness in numerous patent litigations. He has testifed in U.S. District courts as an expert witness on several occasions. Recently, he has formed his own consulting practice continuing work as a patent consultant and expert witness.

This expert has more than a quarter century of experience developing financial and economic analyses to solve business problems. His practice principally involves intellectual property issues, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret as well as unfair competition antitrust matters and business valuations, breach of contract disputes, and technology assessment. acquisitions analysis, has enabled him to assist clients on a wide range of litigation issues. His industry experience includes pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food, industrial products, machinery, automotive aftermarket, electronic components, telecommunications, airlines, computer hardware, software, and media and entertainment. He has testified in state court, U.S. District Court, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of International Trade, and before the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to joining Freeman & Mills, he served in senior corporate positions in business planning, acquisitions, and product development. He was the president of a technology marketing and licensing company; served as an economist at the Department of the Treasury, where his responsibilities included corporate fraud, technology licensing and transfer pricing; and was a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He holds a BS in engineering and an MA and a PhD in economics, all from Duke University.

This expert is an extensively published economic damages and Intellectual property consultant. He has completed complex consulting assignments involving the valuation and pricing of patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intangible assets. His opinions are used to accomplish licensing transactions, acquisitions, transfer pricing, litigation support, collateral-based financing, and joint ventures. His work has also notably been relied upon with regards to IP infringement damages. This expert also publishes three royalty rate resource books, which have been sold all over the world. These books are dedicated to reporting detailed information about the economic aspects of intellectual property transactions including licensing and joint ventures.

This well credentialed expert has more than three decades of experience in finance, economics, and statistics, with particular expertise in economic damages assessments, employment litigation, securities and business valuations. He earned his BS in Math and Economics from the University of Oregon, his MBA in Finance from University of California, Los Angeles, and his PhD in Financial Economics from University of California, Los Angeles. He also is a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute. He is a past member of numerous national consulting practices, all of which focused on forensic economic matters. In addition, he was a lecturer in Finance at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego, as well as an Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. The expert has authored numerous articles and reports in his field. He is currently a Partner at an Economic and Accounting Consulting Firm in California.

This expert has over 20 years of telecommunications, intellectual property, and business management experience. He received his BS in computer and electrical engineering and his MS in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Currently, this expert is a consultant in the telecommunication, intellectual property, and cryptography industries. He has published 16 telecommunications-related patents. Formerly, he has worked as a lead engineer at Motorola, the head of IP and head of customer insights and experience/subscriber data management at Nokia, the vice-president of product management and general manager for America at Nokia and as the vice-president of product management at Cirries. He is currently Managing Director of Operations for a firm specializing in cryptography and related systems for Internet and communications security.

This qualified expert holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and is a Certified Licensing Professional as well as an Certified Valuation Analyst. He specializes in intellectual property damages analysis including reasonable royalty and lost profit calculations. With more than 17 years experience in the fields of intellectual property assertion, intellectual property monetization, trademark disputes, copyright, breach of contract disputes, commercial business disputes, financial modeling, valuation and other economic damages issues, Marcus had led projects covering numerous industries including semiconductor, wireless networking, cellular communications technologies, internet software, oil & gas drilling technology, commercial services and telecommunications sectors.

This highly qualified expert has over 40 years of experience before the US Patent and Trademark Office dealing with intellectual property and patent litigation in electronics. He earned his MS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan and then his JD from Georgetown University. He has over 80 patents to his name and has given seminars in his field. He has been an associate attorney and a partner at several intellectual properties and patent firms before starting his own in the Washington DC area.

This highly qualified expert earned his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas followed by a JD from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. He also earned his LLM with diplomas in energy, environmental, and natural resources law, intellectual property and information law, and taxation. He is an expert in environmental and energy law, engineering, and safety. This expert formerly served as a regional engineer, division director, and regional director of the Texas Control Board which is now known as the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Currently, this expert serves as an engineering manager for an air and waste engineering company in Texas, as well as an environmental and intellectual property attorney.

This qualified expert has extensive experience with patents and software-related intellectual property as an IT litigation consultant and attorney. He received his BS in biology and chemistry from Stony Brook University and his MS in chemistry from SUNY Stony Brook before earning his JD from Georgetown University. He also earned his MML in international business and economic law from Georgetown University. He is a member of the state bar of California and is a registered patent agent. He has formerly served as a patent agent for Marjama, Muldoon, Blasiak, & Sullivan and law clerk for the Office of Unfair Import Investigations of the United States International Trade Commission. Currently, this expert is a software analyst for a technical consulting firm based in Maryland.

This highly-qualified expert has over 20 years of experience specializing in economic damages, with a focus on intellectual property, commercial damages, and antitrust. He received his BA in economics from the University of Wisconsin Madison before earning his PhD in industrial organization and international economics from MIT and his JD from the University of Michigan. He is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the American Economic Association, the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Licensing Executives Society. He has also authored numerous articles concerning intellectual property damages issues, including multiple articles in leading intellectual property law journals. He has formerly served as an international trade associate attorney for Shearman & Sterling, a strategy specialist for McKinsey & Co., an adjunct professor of economics for the University of Maryland and Georgetown University, and the vice president of Analysis Group Inc. Currently, this expert serves as the senior managing director for an economic consulting firm based in Washington, D.C.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 40 years of experience as a forensic economist. He earned his BA in economics at Washington State University. He is very active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the National Association of Forensic Economics, the American Economic Association, American Academy of Physicians Life Care Planners, and the American Rehabilitation Economics Association. He has held multiple roles throughout his career including economist for the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Protection Agency, a forensic economist at Grant Thornton, LLP, an in-house consultant at Bickel & Brewer, and senior economist at the Center for Forensic Economic Studies. This expert is currently a senior consulting economist at a damages and business valuation consulting firm, an associate consulting economist at a life care planning consulting firm, and the president and senior economist at a forensic economic consulting firm.

This expert in intellectual property and patents received his BA in astronomy and his MA in physics from the University of California-Berkeley as well as his JD from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Bar of the State of California and is registered to practice before the US Patent & Trademark Office. He has extensive experience in patent portfolio strategy and management, as well as IP protection for startups. This expert has previously served in a variety of roles in the realms of patents and intellectual property within law firms and in-house departments, including as a director and chief patent counsel, vice president and patent portfolio manager, and partner. Currently, he serves as the partner for the intellectual property segment of one of the oldest law firms in the Pacific Northwest.

This highly qualified technology intelligence expert has over 44 years of professional experience. He earned a BE in electrical engineering from the Pratt Institute and an MS from George Washington University. He is active in his field as a member of several professional associations including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and also holds membership to their honor society, Eta Kappa Nu. Formerly, this expert served as a senior program manager of advanced acoustic sensors for the Naval Sea Systems Command and as a senior technology program manager with the Central Intelligence Agency. He went on to serve as the director of the Washington business development center of Condor Systems and as the president and CEO of CPT Associates. After this, he joined the National Maritime Intelligence Center as the branch head of science and technology intelligence and as a technology and business manager. Currently, this expert is a senior program manager and analyst for a resource management and investments group in Virginia.