Professional Summary: As one of the inventors of the DVD (Digital Video Disc), this Expert Witness invents prolifically, helps other people invent, writes well-written invention disclosures, consults, and acts as an expert witness in fields related to entertainment technology. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of a communications/media company and a Patent Liaison at a major digital entertainment technology company. He was a Vice President at two Disney-owned companies. He also worked for Time Warner, Silicon Graphics, Atari and others in roles ranging from Program Management to Software Development of Entertainment Products since 1982.
His main focus is patents. He has acted as an agent offering patents owned by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America),experimented with new techniques in patent portfolio analysis, and learned all about patent prosecution via an intensive on-going on-and-off-site study program by the PLI (Practicing Law Institute). As an expert, he mostly supports defendants but has been the plaintiff’s expert as well. The cases generally involve validity and infringement. He writes expert reports, works with attorneys on claim charts, and has dealt with trade secret litigation. |
Expertise:
§ Computers,Tablets, Smart Phones, Smart TV's, Set Top Boxes and Game Machines:
o Motorola (General Instruments) DCT5000, Harmonic Headend, Samsung STB, SGI, Scientific Atlanta, Divicom/Zenith, General Instruments & Full Service Network Set Top Boxes.
o IBM Compatibles, Windows & DOS, Macintosh, Apple II series, Atari,Commodore 64, Data General MP1000, NEC Turbographics 16, Fujitsu FM Towns, Commodore Amiga, CDTV, Silicon Graphics Indy, UNIX, VAX, IBM, 1130, Honeywell, PDP11, Honeywell Assembler, IBM 370, IBM 360, Burroughs Macro and Command CICS.
§ Authoring Systems and Databases:
o Oracle, MS Access, Hypercard, Developed ARCANGEL (Interactive TV &CD-ROM Authoring System) and IDAHO (Multimedia Authoring System). Developed UTAH (CD-ROM Database), and Real Time File Builder (for XA et al). User of IBM PFS, DB Master IMS, VSAM, ISAM and BDAM Databases.
§ Computer Programming Languages:
o Java, C, C++ (Object-Oriented and structured), Perl, Pascal, Fortran,Logo, Forth, 8086, 8088, 80286, 80386, 80486, 6502 Assemblers, Basic,JavaScript, Cold Fusion, HTML, Cobol, Fortran, PL1, Algol, Speakez, Snobol, JCL, TSO, SPF, Clist, Exec, IBM Assembler (BAL)
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