Lab Equipment Allegedly Infringes on Competing Design

Case Overview

This equipment design patent infringement case takes place in Virginia and involves a piece of laboratory equipment that is used to rapidly sequence multiple samples of DNA. The device contains a staging area in which tubes containing multiple samples are placed awaiting use in the machine. When the machine is ready to test the sample, it pierces the top of the sample tube and extracts the genetic material automatically. It was alleged that this method of retrieval was incorporated into this machine in violation of a patent held by a competitor. An expert in intellectual property (IP was sought to opine on the issue.

Questions to the Engineering expert and their responses

Have you served as an expert on an intellectual property case before? Please explain.

I have served as an expert witness on eight patent infringement cases and one medical malpractice case.

Please explain why you are qualified to serve as an expert on this case.

I have a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering with a specialty area of bioengineering. I am the primary inventor of several biotechnology patents. I have experience analyzing endovascular stents, their delivery catheters, and patent litigation related to their unique designs.

About the expert

This decorated expert has a quarter century of electrical engineering experience, earning graduate qualifications at MIT, where his work had important biomedical applications. He is a member of several professional societies such as the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and Virginia Academy of Science. Active in research, he has won numerous grants and has been published widely. He has consulted on IP issues in the past and holds several patents for his inventions.