Patent attorney and registered professional engineer with more than 35 years of experience in patent and intellectual property law, this expert provides analysis and expert witness services in matters involving patent preparation, prosecution, infringement, validity, and technology evaluation. He has been registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office for over 25 years and has over 5 years of expert witness experience that includes consultation and deposition testimony in intellectual property disputes. His practice encompasses national and international patent preparation and prosecution, as well as technology and infringement opinions across software, electrical, semiconductor, mechanical, electromechanical, optical, encryption, and mixed-discipline inventions, with particular emphasis on software patents, mobile device technologies, and Internet-related business methods.

In addition to his legal practice, he brings more than 15 years of industry experience in software development and integrated circuit design, having served as a Senior Software Engineer and Staff IC Design Engineer. His technical work has involved telecommunications systems, RF and microwave technologies, semiconductor devices, signal processing, embedded systems, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design. He is a named inventor on multiple issued patents. Within litigation contexts, his experience includes filing an expert witness report in a copyright-related legal malpractice matter and serving as a fact witness in patent infringement proceedings in federal court. His work has included technical evaluations, infringement analyses, and reverse engineering efforts connected to intellectual property disputes.

He currently practices as a Patent Attorney and previously operated his own intellectual property and engineering consulting practice. He has served as a subject matter expert for a national professional licensing and examination organization for engineers and surveyors, participating in the preparation and review of the electrical engineering professional licensure examination and acting as lead chair in developing the computer engineering sub-discipline. His professional credentials include registration as a Patent Attorney before the USPTO and licensure as a Professional Engineer. His academic background includes a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Juris Doctor and Master of Intellectual Property Law, and a Master of Laws in Taxation. This combination of advanced engineering training, intellectual property legal education, and courtroom-related involvement supports analysis in complex patent infringement, validity, copyright, trademark, and trade secret matters involving highly technical subject matter.