Copyright Infringement Expert Witnesses in Oregon

This qualified expert earned his BS in computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has over ten years of experience in technical analysis for software intellectual property matters and two patents. This expert has been published over five times and has presented at various conferences in his field. He is a former firmware developer for Theranos, Inc. and a former project manager and research engineer for Zeidman Consulting. Currently, he serves as the principal and intellectual property technical advisor for a software development and analysis consulting firm.

This qualified expert has over 35 years of experience in real estate. He earned his BA in film and broadcasting from Stanford University. He began his career in real estate with Coldwell Banker Commercial as a real estate portfolio manner. He has been licensed as a real estate broker in California for 36 years, and is a certified property manager and commercial investment member. He is also a LEED-accredited professional. This expert has extensive experience in property management, as he has been the director of property management for La Caze Development Company and the owner of Weiner Property Management. This expert is a distinguished professional in the field, having received Certified Property Manager of the Year from the Institute of Real Estate Management in California. Currently, he works as the executive vice president for a tenant representation brokerage firm in California.

This highly-qualified expert over 40 years of experience in the film, television, & digital media industry. His work has been focused in areas including lost earnings, trade custom and usage, and profit entitlements. He graduated magna cum laude with his BA from Kenyon College before earning his JD from New York University. This expert is active in his field as a member of several associations, including the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the American Film Marketing Association. He began his career as an entertainment attorney and a business affairs executive focused on cable television programming services. He has served as the senior vice president of CBS/Fox Video, the executive vice president of NBC Productions, chairman of the Alliance Television Group, and the president and COO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Currently, this expert is the managing director of a film financing and television packaging boutique based in California.

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 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 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 currently works at an intellectual asset consulting firm specializing in trademark, patent and copyright licensing, valuations, and expert testimony. He has worked on branding infringement and Right of Publicity cases for celebrities. Additionally, he has published multiple articles on publicity, rights of publicity, and valuation of clients.

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 the founding principal of an intellectual property consulting firm specializing in the management, valuation, and monetization of IP. He is a certified licensing professional (CLP) with over a decade of expertise in intellectual property valuation, profit apportionment and expert witness damages testimony. Additionally, he specializes in analyses for copyright and trademark infringement, publicity rights, social media and Internet infringement, defamation, marketing strategy analyses and royalty rate determinations. He also provides valuations and monetization strategies for trademarks, publicity rights, domain names, Internet and social media assets, brand assets and copyrights for financial reporting, bankruptcy and transactional due diligence. He is a member of the International Trademark Association, the Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association, and the Section of the Intellectual Property Law of the American Bar Association.