Consulting

2023

Law offices, Fish & Richardson LLP, Wilmington, DE. Patent infringement case: “TexasLDPC Inc. v. Broadcom Inc., LSI Corp., AVAGO Technologies U.S. Inc.” Expert witness for TexasLDPC; ECC technology.

2017-2023

Law offices, WilmerHale (Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP). Law offices, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Houston, TX. Patent infringement case: “Alacritech Inc. v. Dell Inc.” Expert witness for Intel; Networking technology. Stayed 2017, reactivated 2022.

2020-2021

Law offices, Winston & Strawn LLP, Menlo Park, CA. ITC Patent infringement case: “Overhead Door Corporation and GMI Holdings Inc. v. The Chamberlain Group, Inc.” Expert witness for CGI; Garage Door Wireless technology. Investigation No. 337–TA–1209. Tesified at trial. Resolved.

2020

Law offices, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Washington DC. Patent infringement case: “ParkerVision, Inc. v. Apple Inc. et al.” Expert witness for Apple; Wireless transmission technology. Stayed.

2019-2020

Law offices, ADSERO IP LLC, Littleton, CO. Patent infringement case: “Red Rock Analytics, LLC v. Apple Inc.” Expert witness for Apple; Wifi technology. Settled.

2019

Law offices, McGuireWoods LLP, Dallas TX. Patent infringement case: “Uniloc USA, Inc. and Uniloc Luxembourg S.A., v. Huawei Device USA, Inc. and Huawei Device Co., Ltd.” Expert witness for Huawei; Cellphone technology. Settled.

2015-2019

Law offices, Alston & Bird LLP, East Palo Alto, CA, and, Law offices, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, Birmingham, AL. Patent infringement case: “TQ Delta, LLC, v. ZyXEL Communications, Inc. and , ZyXEL Communications, Corp.” Expert witness for ZyXEL; DSL technology. Settled.

2016-2018

Law offices, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, San Diego, CA. and Law offices, McGuireWoods LLP, Richmond, VA. Patent infringement cases: “Cellular Communications Equipment LLC, v. Apple Inc., et. al.” Expert witness for ZTE, HTC and Sprint; Cellphone technology. Settled.

2017

Law offices, McGuireWoods LLP, Richmond, VA. Patent infringement case: “Preferential Networks IP, LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., Virgin Mobile USA, L.P., and Boost Mobile LLC” Expert witness for Sprint; Networking technology. Settled.

2015-2017

Law offices, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Cincinnati, OH. Patent infringement case: “LSI Corporation, Agere Systems, LLC and Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., v. Funai Electric Company, Ltd., Funai Corporation, Inc., Funai Service Corporation, And P&F USA, Inc.,” Expert witness for Funai; WiFi technology. Settled.

2015-2016

Law offices, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, New York, NY. Patent validity case: “Arris Group, INC. Petitioner v. C-Cation Technologies, LLC Patent Owner,” Expert witness for C-Cation; Cable modem technology; IPR (USPTO). Concluded.

2015

Law offices, Jones Day, Dallas, TX. Patent infringement case: “Wi-Lan Inc. v. Kyrocera Communications, Inc.,” Expert witness for Kyrocera; WiFi technology. Settled.

2014-2016

Law offices, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, New York, NY. Patent infringement case: “C-Cation Technology, LLC. v. Time Warner et al.,” Expert witness for C-Cation; Cable modem technology. Stayed.

2014

Law offices, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Washington, DC. ITC Patent infringement case: “ViXS Systems Inc. v. DirecTV, LLC” Expert for DirecTV; Multimedia technology. Settled.

2013-2014

Law offices, Fish & Richardson LLP, Dallas, TX. and Law offices, McDermott Will & Emery, Boston, MA. Patent infringement case: “NXP B.V. v. Research In Motion (Blackberry), Ltd., et al.,” Expert witness for Blackberry; WiFi technology. Tesified at trial.

2013

Law offices, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL. Patent infringement case: “Zenith Electronics LLC, et al. v. ViewSonic Corp.,” Expert for Viewsonic; HDTV technology.

2013

Law offices, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, New York, NY. Patent infringement case: “C-Cation Technology, LLC. v. Comcast et al.,” Expert witness for C-Cation; Cable modem technology. Settled.

2012-2013

Law offices, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Redwood Shores, CA. Licensing arbitration case: “Interdigital Technology, et al. v. Apple Inc.,” Expert witness for Apple; Cellphone technology. Tesified at trial.

2012-2013

Law offices, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C. and Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, Washington, D.C. and Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, NY. Patent infringement case: “LSI Corp and Agere Systems Inc. v. Funai Electric Company, Ltd. et al.” Expert witness for Funai, RealTek and MediaTek/RAlink; WiFi technology. Testified at trial.

2012-2013

Law offices, Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, CA. Patent infringement case: “Ericson Inc. et al v. D-Link Corp. et al, Inc.” Expert witness for the defense: Netgear, D-Link, Acer, Gateway, Toshiba; WiFi technology. Testified at trial.

2011-2013

Law offices, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, CA and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Redwood Shores, CA. Patent infringement cases: “Motorola Mobility, Inc. v. Apple, Inc.” and “Apple Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc. v. Motorola, Inc. and Motorola Mobility, Inc.” Expert witness for the defense of Apple; WiFi and Cellphone technology.

2012

Law offices, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Dallas, TX. Patent infringement case: “Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co. Ltd., et al. v. Top Victory Electronics (Taiwan) Co. Ltd., et al.,” Witness (inventor) for Vizio (countersuit); Inventor on 5 patents, Cable DTV technology. Withdrawn.

2011-2012

Law offices, WilmerHale, Palo Alto, CA. Patent infringement cases: “Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co.” Expert witness for the defense of Apple; Cellphone technology.

2010-2012

Law offices, Jones Day, Washington, DC. ITC Patent infringement case: “Vizio, Inc., v. Coby Electronics Corp. et. al.” Witness (inventor) for Vizio; Inventor on 5 patents, Cable DTV technology. Settled.

2010-2012

Law offices, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP, Minneapolis, MN and Irell & Manella LLP, Century City, CA. Patent infringement case: “Tivo, Inc. v. Verizon Communications, Inc.” Expert witness for the defense of Tivo; DTV and DVR technology.

2009-2011

Law offices, Jones Day, Washington, DC. Patent infringement cases: “Vizio, Inc., v. LG Electronics” and “Vizio, Inc., v. Funai Electric” Witness (inventor) for Vizio; Inventor on 6 of 7 patents, DTV technology. Settled.

2009

Law offices, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., New York, NY. Patent infringement cases: “Symbol Technologies, Inc. et al. v. Aruba Networks, Inc.” and “Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. et al.” Expert witness for Motorola; WiFi products.

2008 – 2009

Law offices, Law offices, Quarles & Brady LLP, Madison, WS and Faegre & Benson LLP, Minneapolis, MN. Patent infringement case: “Fujitsu, et al. v. Netgear”. Expert witness for the defendant, Netgear; WiFi products. Resolved by summary judgement.

2009

Law offices, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Wilmington, DL. Patent infringement case: “Rembrandt Data Technologies, LP, v. AOL LLC, et. al.”. Expert witness for the plaintiff, Rembrandt; dial-up modems.

2008

Law offices, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, DC. Patent infringement case: “CIF Licensing, LLC, d/b/a GE Licensing v. Agere Systems Inc.”. Expert witness for the plaintiff, GE; dial-up modems.

2007 - 2008

Law offices, McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, Chicago, IL. Patent infringement case: “Zenith Electronics Corporation v. Polaroid Corporation and Petters Group Worldwide LLC, et al,”. Expert witness for the defendant, Polaroid; High Definition Television (HDTV).

2005 - 2009

Law offices, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Palo Alto, CA and Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, CA. Patent infringement case: “Intel Corporation and Dell, Inc. v. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation”. Expert witness for plaintiff, Intel; Wireless LAN (WiFi). Settled.

2004 - 2008

WiQuest Communications Inc., Allen TX. Technical advisory board. Development of high performance UWB (ultra-wideband) transmission.

2005

Keyeye Communications, Sacramento CA. Advice on 10 Gbps Ethernet.

2003 - 2004

Law offices, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY. Patent infringement case: “Agere Systems, Inc. v. Broadcom Inc.” Expert witness for the defendant, Broadcom; Trellis coding for cable TV.

1998 - 1999

Law offices, Irell & Manella LLP, Century City, CA. Patent infringement case: “Stanford Telecommunications, Inc. v. Broadcom Inc.”. Expert witness for defendant, Broadcom; Digital Modulator for cable TV.

1997

Aironet – high speed wireless local area networks.

1997

Xetron – digital audio broadcasting on the AM band.

1997

Aetherworks – data modem, v.mach, development.

1996 - 1997

Level One Communications – data modem standards (HDSL2) development.

1996

Next Level Communications – data modem standards (VDSL) development.

1995 - 1996

MarketWare Inc. – A software FSK telephone demodulator.

1991 - 1996

General Instrument – The design and development of advanced, digital, cable TV transmission for “500” video channels and “cable modems”. This worked led to the development of the ITU-T J.83-Annex B (J.83b) standard used in digital cable TV and for the downstream in DOCSIS.

1994 - 1995

Law offices, Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, Washington DC. Patent infringement case: “IBM vs Conners Peripheral, Inc.”. Expert witness for the plaintiff, IBM; Reed-Solomon codes.

1994, 1996

Hybrid Networks Inc., Cupertino, California. The development of 4-VSB cable network modem.

1993 - 1994

Primary Access, San Diego, California. The development of trellis coded, DSP based telephone modem v.34.

1990 - 1991

General Instrument – VideoCipher Division, San Diego, California. The design and development of advanced, digital, HDTV transmission system for the FCC standards competition. Introduced the idea of concatenated coding for HDTV, combining trellis coding, interleaving and Reed-Solomon coding. This became part of US based ATSC HDTV standard.

1989 - 1991

Primary Access, San Diego, California. The development of trellis coded, DSP based telephone modems (v.32 & v.32bis).

1988 - 1991

Codenoll Technology, Yonkers, New York. The development and standardization of modulation and error-control for passive star, optical EtherNet based LANs.

1987 - 1990

Imprimis, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Modulation and coding for recording systems.

1982 - 1989

Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, New York and Spin Physics division of Kodak in San Diego. The development of high density, digital magnetic recorders.

1984 - 1985

Anadrill - Schlumberger, Sugarland, Texas. Modem development.

1984

Digital Transmission Systems, Atlanta, Georgia. Sequential decoder for binary convolutional codes.


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