Expert Witness Experience

R. Jacob Baker, PhD, PE 

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering   

 

The law firms and clients (underlined) whom I have provided expert witness services are listed below.

***I do not accept expert witness work through third-party expert witness search firms.***

I have been deposed 103 times, given expert testimony at 13 trials (7 USITC, 2 D. Del., 1 Arbitr., 1 S.D. Cal., 1 D. Ore., and 1 E.D. Tex.), and participated in 1 mediation.  

     

Fish & Richardson P.C. (San Diego, CA and Boston, MA)

Case - Vicor Corporation v. Delta Electronics, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2024-00704, IPR2024-00705, IPR2024-00706, and IPR2024-00715. Requests filed on March 25, 2024.

Case Subject Matter – Power converters including design, packaging, heatsinking and manufacturing.  Resonant converters with overcurrent protection. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

STEVEN KATZ AND RYAN O’CONNOR 

Winston & Strawn LLP (Los Angeles, CA and Redwood City, CA)

Case – Silicon Motion, Inc. v. Unification Technologies LLC

Case Number – IPR2024-00199. Request filed on December 18, 2023.

Case Subject Matter – Memory controller, solid-state drive (SSD), flash non-volatile memory management, memory controller operation and addressing.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

RICHARD JUNG AND MIKE RUECKHEIM 

Garlick & Markison, LLC (Austin, TX)

Case – NXP USA, Inc. v. Bell Semiconductor, LLC   

Case Numbers – IPR2024-00167 and IPR2024-00168. Requests filed on November 9, 2023.

Case Subject Matter – semiconductor manufacturing processes, fabrication and packaging of integrated circuits, layout and routing of signal lines.   

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.  

TIM TAYLOR AND BRUCE GARLICK

Unified Patents, LLC (Washington, DC)

Case – Ex Parte Reexamination

Case Number – 90/019288. Request filed on October 20, 2023.

Case Subject Matter – Power conversion device to drive an alternating-current motor for an electric vehicle.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration.

TJ MURPHY

Haynes and Boone, LLP (Dallas, TX)

Case – Western Digital Technologies, Inc. v. Longitude Licensing LTD.

Case Number – IPR2023-01200. Petition filed on July 14, 2023.    

Case Subject Matter – Communications between a memory controller and memory.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

CALMANN CLEMENTS, HONG SHI, AND DAVID O’DELL

Paul Hastings LLP (Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Mojo Mobility, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2023-01094, IPR2023-01095, IPR2023-01096, IPR2023-01097, IPR2023-01098, IPR2023-01099, IPR2023-01100,  and IPR2023-01124. Petitions filed on June 30, 2023.

Case Numbers – IPR2023-01101 and IPR2023-01102. Petitions filed on June 29, 2023.

Case Numbers – IPR2023-01091, IPR2023-01092, and IPR2023-01093. Petitions filed on June 28, 2023.

Case Numbers – IPR2023-01086, IPR2023-01087, IPR2023-01088, IPR2023-01089, and IPR2023-01090. Petitions filed on June 27, 2023.    

Case Subject Matter – Wireless charging systems, power sources, and inductive receivers for charging mobile devices.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

JOE PALYS, HOWARD HERR, Koichiro Kidokoro, SASHA Vujcic, DAVID VALENTE, AND PAUL ANDERSON

Winston & Strawn LLP (Los Angeles, CA, Redwood City, CA, Chicago, IL, and Houston, TX)

Case – Unification Technologies LLC v. Silicon Motion, Inc.

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:23-cv-00267. Complaint filed June 2, 2023.

Case Subject Matter – Memory controller, solid-state drive (SSD), flash non-volatile memory management, memory controller operation and addressing.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

RICHARD JUNG, MIKE RUECKHEIM, VIVEK KRISHNAN, AND EVAN LEWIS

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (Austin, TX and Dallas, TX)

Case – Current Lighting Solutions, LLC d/b/a GE Current v. Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.

Case Numbers – IPR2023-00979 and IPR2023-00980. Petitions filed on May 31, 2023. 
Case Number – IPR2023-00270. Petition filed on December 19, 2022.  

Case Number – IPR2023-00271. Petition filed on December 14, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – LED lighting, lamps, tube lamps, assembly, and associated circuits and electronics.  

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

MIKE MUDROW, JIM WARRINER, JEREMY ALBRIGHT, CAT GARZA, ART Licygiewicz, ALLAN BRAXDALE, AND EAGLE ROBINSON

Baker Botts LLP (Dallas, TX)

Case – Lennox Industries Inc. v. Rosen Technologies LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2023-00715, IPR2023-00716, IPR2023-00717, IPR2023-00718, and IPR2023-00719. Petitions filed on March 29, 2023.

Case Subject Matter – Thermostat system communications, programming, and displays.     

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

DAVID WILLE, CLARKE STAVINOHA, MELISSA MUENKS, CARLOLINE DUNCAN, AND JACQUELINE CHAN 

Cooley LLP (Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Nintendo Co., Ltd. and Nintendo of America Inc. v. Polaris PowerLED Technologies, LLC

Case Number – IPR2023-00778. Petition filed on March 28, 2023.
Case Subject Matter – Visual displays, circuit design, and related technologies.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declaration for inter partes review, and was deposed.

PATRICK LAUPPE, DENA CHEN, AND MATTHEW BRIGHAM 

Bracewell LLP (New York, NY and Seattle, WA)

Case – Kioxia America, Inc. and Kioxia Corporation v. BiTMICRO LLC 

Case Numbers – IPR2023-00741, IPR2023-00742, and IPR2023-00743. Petitions filed on March 23, 2023.
Case Subject Matter – Solid-state storage devices utilizing multi-profile memory controllers. Optimizing memory operations in a memory system suitable for use in an electronic storage device. Supplying energy to a cache memory using a supercapacitor.  

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

JARED SCHUETTENHELM, DAVID BALL, DOUG STEWART, AND PATRICK CONNOLLY   

Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC (Washington, DC)

Case – Lenovo Inc. and Motorola Mobility LLC v. Theta IP, LLC 

Case Numbers – IPR2023-00694, IPR2023-00697, and IPR2023-00698. Petitions filed on March 7, 2023.
Case Subject Matter – Power in wireless communication circuits.   

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed.

SANGWOO AHN, JAMESON MA, DINESH MELWANI, AND WILL UHR 

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Menlo Park, CA and San Diego, CA)

Case – Semiconductor Design Technologies LLC v. Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Case Number – California, ND 3:23-cv-01001. Complaint filed March 6, 2023.

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor design support device/method and manufacturing method for semiconductor integrated circuit.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

JAMES HURT, HARPER BATTS, JEFFREY LIANG, AND FRED CHUNG

McDermott Will & Emery LLP (Chicago, IL and Austin, TX)

Case – Xilinx, Inc. v. Polaris Innovations Limited 

Case Numbers – IPR2023-00513 and IPR2023-00514. Petitions filed on February 6, 2023.
Case Subject Matter – Methods for terminating a memory chip with various termination resistances and output drivers for integrated circuits.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed.

AASHISH KAPADIA, TESSA KROLL, AND BRIAN OAKS  

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (San Franciso, CA)

Case – Bell Semiconductor, LLC. v. NXP USA, Inc.

Case Number – California, SD 3:22-cv-00594.  Complaint filed on January 31, 2023. 

Case Subject Matter – Integrated circuit design computer-aided design (CAD) tools for routing, design rule checking, layout versus schematic, electrical checking, dummy fill, reducing capacitance.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote expert reports.

JACOB KARIM AND BARRINGTON DYER  

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, and Boston, MA)

Case – Element Capital Commercial Company PTE. LTD v. BOE Technology Group Co. LTD and Motorola (Wuhan) Mobility

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:22-cv-00118. Complaint filed January 11, 2023.

Case Subject Matter – Display technology, layout, circuit design, pixel design and fabrication.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote expert reports, and was deposed.

JONATHAN BRIGHT, JOSEPH COLAIANNI, CHET CAMPBELL, AND LINHONG ZHANG    

Baker Botts LLP (San Franciso, CA and New York, NY) and O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles, CA) 

Case – Polaris PowerLED, LLC v. Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:22-cv-00469. Complaint filed December 12, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays, controlling the intensity of light-emitting diodes in backlights of displays, control circuits for adjusting current delivery based upon temperature.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing a declaration for claim construction.

ERIC FARAGI, MARK ODA, NEIL SIROTA, LAURA BURSON, MIAO LIU, AND NICK WHILT 

Arnold & Porter (Los Angeles and Palo Alto, CA) and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (San Franciso, CA)

Case – Synopsys, Inc. and Cadence Design Systems, Inc. v. Bell Semiconductor, LLC.

Case Number – Delaware, 1:22-cv-01512.  Complaint filed on November 18, 2022. 

Case Subject Matter – Integrated circuit design computer-aided design (CAD) tools for routing, design rule checking, layout versus schematic, electrical checking, dummy fill, reducing capacitance.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote expert reports, and was deposed.

JACOB KARIM, BARRINGTON DYER, KRYSTI PAPADOPOULOS, AND JEFF MILLER

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Ex Parte Reexaminations 

Case Numbers – 90/015155 and 90/015156. Requests filed on November 7, 2022.  

Case Number – 90/015134. Request filed on October 14, 2022.  

Case Number – 90/015130. Request filed on September 30, 2022.  

Case Subject Matter – Packaging and fabrication of light emitting diodes (LEDs).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations.

paul anderson, Kevin STEWART, Phillip Citroen, and chetan bansal 

Russ August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Resonant Systems, Inc. v. Sony

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:22-cv-00424.  Complaint filed on October 26, 2022. 

Case Subject Matter – Linear vibration modules and linear-resonant vibration modules.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote claim construction disclosure.

PAUL KROEGER, CHRISTIAN CONKLE, AND KRISTOPHER DAVIS 

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP (Menlo Park, CA and San Diego, CA) and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (San Franciso, CA)  

Case – Bell Semiconductor, LLC v. NXP, SMC, Micron, Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Acer, Infineon, Qualcomm, Motorola Mobility, and Western Digital

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1340. Complaint filed October 6, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – Electronic devices, semiconductor devices, and components.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

JEFFREY LIANG, HARPER BATTS, JAMES HURT, ERIC GILL, AND BARRINGTON DYER - HONORABLE CAMERON R. ELLIOT 

O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles, CA) 

Case – Daedalus Prime LLC v. Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm Inc. 

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1335. Complaint filed September 12, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor devices, mobile devices, and components.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

BRIAN COOK, NICK WHILT, AND VINCENT ZHOU - HONORABLE MARYJOAN MCNAMARA 

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Boston, MA, Houston, TX, and Washington, DC)

Case – Sonrai Memory LTD. v. Micron Technology, Inc.  

Case Number – Texas, WD (Waco) 6:22-cv-00855 and Texas, WD (Waco) 1:23-cv-01407. Complaint filed August 16, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – Portable RAM drive and variable charge pump circuit with dynamic load.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

BRYAN BASSO, DAN WADE, TIM RIFFE, JACUELINE MORAN, BRIAN LIVEDALEN, ALEX PECHETTE, AND ADAM SHARTZER

Russ August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY)

Case – NextGen Innovations, LLC v. Infinera, Fujitsu, AT&T, and Nokia

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:22-cv-00306, Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:22-cv-00307, Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:22-cv-00308, and Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:22-cv-00309.  Complaints filed on August 9, 2022. 

Case Subject Matter – optical transmission systems including optical components for encoding, transmission (fiber optic transmitters and receivers), and decoding of data and related standards and concepts.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote claim construction disclosure, wrote expert reports, and was deposed twice.

ANDREW WEISS AND PAUL KROEGER

DLA Piper (Chicago, IL and Washington, DC)

Case – Ampt, LLC v. SolarEdge Technologies, Inc.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1327. Complaint filed July 28, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – Solar power optimizers, inverters, and components.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declarations for claim construction, expert reports, and was deposed.

GIANNI MINUTOLI, SALVATORE TAMBURO, AND MATTHEW SATCHWELL - HONORABLE CLARK S. CHENEY 

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Houston, TX, and Irvine, CA)

Case – Signify North America Corporation v. Shenzhen Intellirocks Tech Co.

Case Number – Texas, WD (Waco) 6:22-cv-00760. Complaint filed on July 8, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – LED packaging, circuits, and systems.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declaration for claim construction. Was deposed.

JOHANNES HSU, JEFFREY JOHNSON, ROBERT BENSON, DON DAYBELL, AND ANGUS GILL

Baker Botts LLP (Dallas, TX)

Case – Rosen Technologies LLC v. Lennox Industries Inc.

Case Number – Texas, ND (Dallas) 3:22-cv-00732. Complaint filed on June 7, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – Thermostat system communications, programming, and displays.     

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

DAVID WILLE, CLARKE STAVINOHA, MELISSA MUENKS, CARLOLINE DUNCAN, AND JACQUELINE CHAN 

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Scramoge Technology Ltd.

Case Numbers – IPR2022-01052IPR2022-01053, and IPR2022-01058. Petitions filed on May 26, 2022.

Case Numbers – IPR2022-01054, IPR2022-01055, IPR2022-01056, and IPR2022-01057. Petitions filed on May 24, 2022.

Case Number – IPR2022-00939. Petition filed on April 29, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – An antenna that supports wireless charging using switching power supplies such as flyback converters.  

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes review.

DAVID VALENTE AND PAUL ANDERSON

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Houston, TX, Irvine, CA, and Menlo Park, CA)  

Case – Ex Parte Reexaminations

Case Number – 90/015020. Request filed on May 2, 2022. 

Case Number – 90/014906. Request filed on November 12, 2021. 

Case Number – 90/014899. Request filed on November 10, 2021. 

Case Number – 90/014888. Request filed on October 21, 2021. 

Case Numbers – 90/014886 and 90/014887. Requests filed on October 20, 2021. 

Case Number – 90/014885. Request filed on October 19, 2021

Case Subject Matter – Universal Serial Bus (USB) for charging.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations.

JASON YU, JEFFREY JOHNSON, AND CHRIS HIGGINS

DLA Piper (Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, and Washington, DC)

Case – SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. v. Fronius International GMBH

Case Number – IPR2022-00849. Petition filed on April 14, 2022.

Case Subject Matter – Mechanical assembly and enclosure whereby an upper housing part is detached from a lower housing part using a “rotate-and-lift” feature.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

JEFF COLE, GIANNI MINUTOLI, AND MATT SATCHWELL

Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York, NY)

Case – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Sonrai Memory Ltd.

Case Numbers – IPR2022-00305 and IPR2022-00306Petitions filed on December 10, 2021. 

Case Subject Matter – USB devices and circuits for saving power.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declarations for inter partes reviews. 

ALAN RABINOWITZ

Haynes and Boone, LLP (Washington, DC)

Case – Unified Patents, LLC v. Arigna Technology Limited

Case Number – IPR2022-00285. Petition filed on December 9, 2021.    

Case Subject Matter – High voltage driver circuit for driving power devices such as insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declaration for inter partes review, and was deposed.

JONATHAN BOWSER

Paul Hastings LLP (Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Lynk Labs, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2022-00149 and IPR2022-00150. Petitions filed on November 12, 2021.

Case Numbers – IPR2022-00100 and IPR2022-00101. Petitions filed on October 28, 2021.

Case Numbers – IPR2022-00051, IPR2022-00052, and IPR2022-00098. Petitions filed on October 27, 2021.

Case Numbers – IPR2021-01575 and IPR2021-01576. Petitions filed on October 1, 2021.

Case Numbers – IPR2021-01299, IPR2021-01300, IPR2021-01345, IPR2021-01346, and IPR2021-01347. Petitions filed on September 7, 2021.    

Case Subject Matter – Circuit design, including switching power supply design (e.g. flyback), rectifiers, power factor correction, etc. for lighting and displays using light emitting diodes (LEDs).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed ten times.

ARVIND JAIRAM, HOWARD HERR, MARK CONSILVIO, AND JOE PALYS

Haynes and Boone, LLP (Plano, TX)

Case – Pure Storage, Inc. v. Digital Cache, LLC

Case Number – IPR2022-00121. Petition filed on October 29, 2021.    

Case Subject Matter – Non-volatile memory (NVM) devices capable of retaining stored data in case of a power failure.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

KYLE HOWARD AND DAVID O’DELL

Banner Witcoff (Washington, DC)

Case – SolarEdge Technologies Ltd. v. Koolbridge Solar, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2022-00007, IPR2022-00008, IPR2022-00009, IPR2022-00010, IPR2022-00011, and IPR2022-00012. Petitions filed on October 11, 2021.

Case Numbers – IPR2022-00013, IPR2022-00014, and IPR2022-00015. Petitions filed on October 8, 2021.    

Case Subject Matter – DC-to-AC converters using full-bridges, multi-level conversion for power systems, and other electronics for harvesting solar energy.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed.

MICHAEL CUVIELLO, JOHN HUTCHINS, AND FRED MEEKER

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. LED Wafer Solutions LLC

Case Number – IPR2021-01554. Petition filed on September 20, 2021.

Case Number – IPR2021-01526. Petition filed on September 10, 2021.

Case Number – IPR2021-01506. Petition filed on September 7, 2021.    

Case Number – IPR2021-01491. Petition filed on September 3, 2021.    

Case Subject Matter – Packaging of light emitting diodes (LEDs).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations.

PAUL ANDERSON, CHETAN BANSAL, AND QUADEER AHMED

Paul Hastings LLP (Washington, DC)

Case – Ex Parte Reexamination

Case Number – 90/014,846. Request filed on August 30, 2021.

Case Subject Matter – Wireless power transmission and ways to wirelessly charge and/or discharge a battery.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration.

DAVID VALENTE

Jones Day (San Diego, CA and Pittsburgh, PA)

Case – SOLiD, Inc. v. CommScope Technologies LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2021-01390, IPR2021-01391, IPR2021-01392, IPR2021-01393, and IPR2021-01394. Petitions filed on August 12, 2021.

Case Subject Matter – Digital antenna system that enables extension of radio frequency (RF) analog signals from base stations to areas (e.g., inside of buildings) where access to such signals is inhibited.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes reviews and wrote declaration.

STEPHANIE MISHAGA AND MATTHEW JOHNSON

Unified Patents, LLC (Washington, DC)

Case – Ex Parte Reexamination

Case Number – 90/019,015. Request filed on July 20, 2021.

Case Subject Matter – Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) temperature compensation.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration.

ELLYAR BARAZESH

Winston & Strawn LLP (Dallas, TX and Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Micron Technology, Inc.; Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc.; Micron Technology Texas LLC v. Unification Technologies LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2021-00940, IPR2021-00941, and IPR2021-00942. Petitions filed on June 4, 2021.

Case Subject Matter – Solid-State Drive (SSD), flash non-volatile memory management, memory controller operation and addressing.  

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes reviews and wrote declarations.  

PETER TONG AND MIKE RUECKHEIM

Hill, Kertscher & Wharton, LLP (Atlanta, GA)  

Case – Kaijet Technology v. Sanho Corporation

Case Number – IPR2021-00886. Petition filed on April 30, 2021.

Case Subject Matter – Port extension apparatus for headphone jack, USB (Universal Serial Bus or Type-C ports), and video ports such as VGA (Video Graphics Array), DVI (Digital Visual Interface), HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), DP (Display Port), and mini-DP.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes review, wrote declaration, and was deposed.  

STEVE HILL  

O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY)

Case – Solas OLED LTD. v. Samsung Electronics Co. LTD.

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:21-cv-00105. Complaint filed March 22, 2021. 

Case Subject Matter – Touch-sensors for gesture recognition and signal processing for capacitive touch displays. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declaration for claim construction.

LAURA BAYNE GORE AND JOHN KAPPOS

O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA)

Case – Super Interconnect Technologies LLC v. Google LLC

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:18-cv-00463 (complaint filed November 2, 2018) and Texas, WD (Waco) 6:21-cv-00259 (complaint filed March 15, 2021). 

Case Subject Matter – Transmission of data and clock signals. Serial signals such as transition minimized differential signaling. Communications between processors and non-volatile storage such as Universal Flash Storage (UFS) and embedded MultiMedia Controller (eMMC). 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote expert reports.

MARK LIANG AND ERIC SU

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Houston, TX, and Irvine, CA)

Case – Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. Anker Innovations and Fantasia Trading LLC d/b/a Ankerdirect  

Case Number – Delaware, 1:21-cv-00339. Complaint filed on March 5, 2021.

Case Subject Matter – Universal Serial Bus (USB) for charging mobile devices.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote expert reports, and was deposed.

JEFFREY JOHNSON AND ROBERT BENSON

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Houston, TX, Irvine, CA, and Menlo Park, CA)

Case – TCT Mobile Inc. and TCL Communication, Inc. v. Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2021-00597, IPR2021-00598, and IPR2021-00599. Petitions filed on February 26, 2021.  

Case Number – IPR2021-00428. Petition filed on January 13, 2021. 

Case Number – IPR2021-00410. Petition filed on January 11, 2021. 

Case Number – IPR2021-00395. Petition filed on December 31, 2020. 

Case Subject Matter – Universal Serial Bus (USB) for charging mobile devices.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declarations for inter partes reviews. Was deposed twice.

JEFFREY JOHNSON, JASON LANG, JASON YU, AND ROBERT BENSON

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. Pictos Technologies, Inc.

Case Number – IPR2021-00557. Petition filed on February 18, 2021.

Case Number – IPR2021-00436. Petition filed on January 19, 2021.

Case Numbers – IPR2021-00437 and IPR2021-00438. Petitions filed on January 15, 2021.

Case Subject Matter – Solid-state imaging devices including red, green, and blue pixels, data conversion circuits, and interpolation circuits. CMOS imagers including fabrication and design, active pixels, and semiconductor physics.  

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

PAUL ANDERSON AND HOWARD HERR

O'Melveny & Myers LLP (San Francisco, CA) and DLA Piper (New York, NY)

Case – Solas OLED Ltd. v. BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. and Samsung Electronics

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1243. Complaint filed January 5, 2021.

Case Subject Matter – Active-matrix OLED display devices and components.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote expert reports, was deposed, and testified at trial.

BRIAN COOK, NICK WHILT, MARK LIANG AND JOEL LIN - HONORABLE CAMERON ELLIOT 

Paul Hastings LLP (Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. Garrity Power Services LLC

Case Number – IPR2021-00389. Petition filed on December 31, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Power electronics including full-bridge PWM modules for wireless power transmission using magnetic coupling via antennas and transformers. Design of inductors and coils.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes reviews.

IAN PAQUETTE AND DANIEL ZEILBERGER

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Palo Alto, CA and Shanghai, CN)

Case – Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. v. Meraki Integrated Circuit Technology, Inc. and Promate Electronic Company, LTD.

Case Number – Texas, WD (Waco) 6:20-cv-00876. Complaint filed on December 24, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Design of switching power supplies including synchronous rectification.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including declaration for claim construction, trade secret analysis and declaration, and Markman tutorial.

ANDREW GRAY, COREY HOUMAND, SHAOBIN ZHU, AND SETH GERBER

Winston & Strawn LLP (Dallas, TX and Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Micron Technology, Inc.; Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc.; Micron Technology Texas LLC; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dell Inc.; and HP Inc. v. Unification Technologies LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2021-00343, IPR2021-00344, and IPR2021-00345. Petitions filed on December 22, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Solid-State Drive (SSD), flash non-volatile memory management, memory controller operation and addressing

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes reviews, wrote declarations, and was deposed.  

PETER TONG AND MIKE RUECKHEIM

Jones Day (Chicago, IL and Dallas, TX)

Case – WSOU Investments, LLC d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development v. Xilinx, Inc.

Case Numbers – Delaware, 1:20-cv-01231 and Delaware, 1:20-cv-01233. Complaints filed on November 23, 2020 and September 16, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Controlling power cycles in communication devices and transferring multiple asynchronous clock signals.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote claim construction declaration, wrote expert reports, and was deposed.

CHRIS BUXTON AND TOM RITCHIE

O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Cosemi Technologies, Inc. v. EverPro Technologies, Fibbr Technologies, Logitech, Inc., and Facebook Technologies

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1233. Complaint filed October 28, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Data cables, including HDMI, Display Port, and USB Type A, USB Type C and USB Type A/C data cables.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

NICK WHILT AND MENG XU - HONORABLE DAVID SHAW

Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Boston, MA and New York, NY

Case – Pictos Technologies, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1231. Complaint filed September 25, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Solid-state imaging devices including red, green, and blue pixels, correction of bad pixels, data conversion circuits, and interpolation circuits. CMOS imagers including fabrication and design, active pixels, and semiconductor physics.  

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote expert report.

KRISTINA CARY, TIFFANY KNAPP, ALEX HENRIQUES, ALAN RABINOWITZ, AND TODD FRIEDMAN - HONORABLE CAMERON ELLIOT 

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Houston, TX, Irvine, CA, and Menlo Park, CA)

Case – Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. TCT Mobile Inc. and TCL Communication, Inc.

Case Number – Delaware, 1:20-cv-00552. Complaint filed on September 11, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Universal Serial Bus (USB) for charging mobile devices.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declarations, expert report on invalidity, and was deposed.

JEFFREY JOHNSON, JASON LANG, JASON YU, AND ROBERT BENSON

Walters Wilson LLP (Redwood City, CA)

Case – Western Digital Corporation and SanDisk, LLC v. Martin Kuster

Case Numbers – IPR2020-01391 and IPR2020-01410. Petitions filed on August 4, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Computer connectors such as universal serial bus (USB) that connect to peripheral devices such as mice, keyboards, displays, printers, external storage, etc.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes review, wrote declarations, and was deposed.  

ERICA WILSON AND ERIC WALTERS

O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. v. Monterey Research, LLC 

Case Number – IPR2020-01315. Petition filed on July 16, 2020. 

Case Number – IPR2020-00985. Petition filed on May 26, 2020.  

Case Subject Matter – Reading and writing to semiconductor memory such as SRAM and double data rate (DDR) DRAM. Buffer circuits with variable current supplies for controlling the rise and fall times of output signals. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes review, wrote declarations, and was deposed twice.  

SINA ARIA, BRIAN COOK, NICK WHILT, AND VINCENT ZHOU

Winston & Strawn LLP (Dallas, TX and Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Unification Technologies LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc.; Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc.; Micron Technology Texas LLC

Case Number – Texas, WD (Waco) 6:20-cv-00500. Complaint filed June 5, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Solid-State Drive (SSD), flash non-volatile memory management, memory controller operation and addressing.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declaration for claim construction, and was deposed.

PETER TONG, MIKE RUECKHEIM, VIVEK KRISHNAN, AND AHTOOSA DALE

Ari Law, P.C. (Palo Alto, CA) and Hill, Kertscher & Wharton, LLP (Atlanta, GA)  

Case – Sanho Corporation v. Kaijet Technology, Magic Control Technology, and Star View Global

Case Numbers – Georgia, ND (Atlanta) 1:18-cv-05385 (third amended complaint filed November 14, 2019) and Georgia, ND (Atlanta) 1:20-cv-02150 (filed May 19, 2020).

Case Subject Matter – Port extension apparatus for headphone jack, USB (Universal Serial Bus or Type-C ports), and video ports such as VGA (Video Graphics Array), DVI (Digital Visual Interface), HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), DP (Display Port), and mini-DP.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declaration for claim construction, and expert reports. Was deposed.  

STEVE HILL, JOHN NORTH, TUAN TIET, AND ALI ARI  

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Houston, TX, Irvine, CA, and Menlo Park, CA)

Case – Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. Coolpad Group Limited, Coolpad Technologies, Inc., and Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific Co. Ltd.

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:20-cv-00117. Complaint filed on April 23, 2020. 

Case Subject Matter – Universal Serial Bus (USB) for charging mobile devices.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declaration for claim construction.

JEFFREY JOHNSON, JASON LANG, JASON YU, AND ROBERT BENSON

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (San Francisco, CA and Shanghai, China)

Case – SMIC, Americas v. Innovative Foundry Technologies LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2020-00837 and IPR2020-00839. Petitions filed on April 14, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor component, such as a short-channel MOS device, including forming graded-junctions using spacers along the sidewalls of a transistor’s gate.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes reviews and wrote declarations.

JACK KO, BROCK WEBER, AND CHRIS KAO

Russ August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Oyster Optics, LLC v. Ciena Corporation

Case Number – California, ND (Oakland) 3:20-cv-02354. Complaint filed on April 7, 2020. 

Case Subject Matter – Fiber optic telecommunication systems.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote claim construction declaration, and was deposed.

PAUL KROEGER

Russ August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd. v. Document Security Systems, Inc. 

Case Number – IPR2020-00938. Petition filed on May 18, 2020.

Case – Nichia Corporation v. Document Security Systems, Inc. 

Case Number – IPR2020-00908. Petition filed on May 18, 2020.

Case – Cree, Inc. v. Document Security Systems, Inc. 

Case Number – IPR2020-00557. Petition filed on February 11, 2020.

Case Subject Matter – Light emitting diodes (LEDs) as a light source, extraction of light. Surface mount technology, assembly, and packages.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed three times.

PAUL KROEGER AND BRIAN LEDAHL

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Flex Logix Technologies, Inc. v. Konda Technologies Inc. 

Case Numbers – IPR2020-00260, IPR2020-00261, and IPR2020-00262. Petitions filed on December 16, 2019.

Case Numbers – PGR2019-00037, PGR2019-00040, and PGR2019-00042. Petitions filed on March 18, 2019.

Case Subject Matter – FPGA layout routing for integrated circuits and networks, electrical and computer engineering.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for post grant and inter partes reviews.

PAUL M. ANDERSON AND ARVIND JAIRAM

DLA Piper (Chicago, IL, Houston, TX, and Washington, DC) and White & Case LLP (New York, NY and Washington, DC)

Case – M-Red Inc. v. Panasonic Corporation

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:19-cv-00251. Complaint filed July 16, 2019. 

Case Subject Matter – Integrated circuit electronics adjustment, such as ring oscillators, using auto calibration. Evaluating a known good die using both wire and flip-chip interconnects.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for claim construction.

DAWN JENKINS, JOSHUA KRESH, MATTHEW SATCHWELL, GRACE WANG, AND SHAMITA ETIENNE-CUMMINGS

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. NuCurrent, Inc.

Case Number – IPR2019-01217. Petition filed on June 19, 2019.

Case Numbers – PGR2019-00049 and PGR2019-00050. Petitions filed on May 28, 2019.

Case Numbers – IPR2019-00858, IPR2019-00859, IPR2019-00860, IPR2019-00861, IPR2019-00862, and IPR2019-00863. Petitions filed on March 22, 2019.

Case Subject Matter – Wireless power transmission using magnetic coupling via antennas and transformers. Design of inductors and coils.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for post grant and inter partes reviews. Was deposed five times.

PAUL M. ANDERSON AND CHETAN BANSAL

DLA Piper (East Palo Alto, CA) 

Case – Invensas Corporation and Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc. v. NVIDIA Corporation

Case Number – Delaware, 1:19-cv-00861. Complaint filed on May 8, 2019.

Case Subject Matter – Reference voltage circuits (programmable bandgaps) having a substantially zero temperature coefficient using bipolar and MOS transistors.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services. 

JAKE ZOLOROTEV AND CLAYTON THOMPSON

Irell & Manella LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – VLSI Technology LLC v. Intel Corporation

Case Number – Texas, WD (Waco) 6:19-cv-00256. Complaint filed April 11, 2019. 

Case Subject Matter – Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) having a variable power supply using charge-sharing capacitors, methods for designing digital systems, and hardware managed interrupt control.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, expert reports, declaration, and was deposed.

CHARLOTTE WEN, JORDAN NAFEKH, AND JOSH GORDON

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. ProMOS Technologies, Inc. 

Case Numbers – IPR2019-00779, IPR2019-00780, IPR2019-00781, IPR2019-00784, and IPR2019-00785. Petitions filed on March 5, 2019. 

Case Subject Matter – Programmable latches that include non-volatile programmable elements, digital delay elements, and decoders for memory chips. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed four times.

PAUL M. ANDERSON AND CHETAN BANSAL

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (San Francisco, CA)

Case – Kingston Technology Company, Inc. v. Memory Technologies, LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2019-00645, IPR2019-00648, IPR2019-00651, and IPR2019-00654. Petitions filed on January 31, 2019.

Case Numbers – IPR2019-00642, IPR2019-00643, and IPR2019-00644. Petitions filed on January 30, 2019.

Case Number – IPR2019-00638. Petition filed on January 29, 2019.

Case Subject Matter – Memory cards including PC cards, compact flash (“CF”) cards, secure digital (“SD”) cards, programmable credit cards, and embedded multimedia cards (“eMMC”). Uses of EEPROM and Flash memory in built-in operating system (BIOS).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes reviews and wrote declarations. 

BROCK WEBER AND CHRIS KAO

Morrison & Foerster LLP (San Francisco, CA) and Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC (Portland, OR) 

Case – Steven A.W. de Jaray, Perienne de Jaray, and Darrell R. Oswald v. Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

Case Number – Oregon, Circuit Court (Multnomah), 3:19-cv-00086. Complaint filed on January 17, 2019. 

Case Subject Matter – Export controlled integrated circuits in various packages. Programmable logic devices (PLDs).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote expert reports, was deposed, and testified at trial.

ROBIN BREWER, Nika Aldrich, AND DEREK FORAN - HONORABLE MICHAEL H. SIMON  

Russ August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Ring LLC v. SkyBell Technologies, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2019-00443, IPR2019-00444, IPR2019-00445, IPR2019-00446, and IPR2019-00447. Petitions filed on December 17, 2018.

Case Subject Matter – Electronic doorbell system with digital chime, video, motion detection, wired and wireless communication, and control panel.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed three times.

PAUL KROEGER

Baker Botts LLP (Austin, TX)

Case – Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC d/b/a ON Semiconductor v. Power Integrations, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2018-01810, IPR2018-01812, IPR2018-01816, and IPR2018-01818. Petitions filed on September 28, 2018.

Case Subject Matter – Switched-mode power supplies (e.g., flyback, buck, boost), controllers, transformers, and sensing multiple voltage values.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

BRETT THOMPSEN

Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Washington, DC) and Fish & Richardson P.C. (Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and SK hynix Inc. v. BiTMICRO, LLC

Case Number – IPR2018-01720Petition filed on September 19, 2018. 

Case Number – IPR2018-01545Petition filed on August 23, 2018.

Case Subject Matter – Solid state storage drives, stacked consumer electronics components (3D packaging, solder balls, flip-chip, TSVs, etc.), and products.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declarations for inter partes reviews. 

JOHN RHINE AND MATT MOSTELLER

Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP (Los Angeles, CA) and White & Case LLP (Palo Alto, CA and Washington, DC)

Case – Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. and MSI Computer Corp. v. Walletex Microelectronics Ltd.

Case Number – IPR2018-01538. Petition filed on August 10, 2018. 

Case Subject Matter – Double-sided male USB and various card-shaped devices and connectors, electrical and computer engineering.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declarations for inter partes review and was deposed.

DANIEL KIANG, BRIAN CLAASSEN, ALLEN WANG, DAVID TENNANT, IRFAN A. LATEEF, AND BIJAL VAKIL

Jones Day (Cleveland, OH and Pittsburgh, PA)

Case – Intel Corp. v. Qualcomm, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2018-01344 and IPR2018-01346. Petitions filed on July 6, 2018. 

Case Numbers – IPR2018-01261, IPR2018-01293, and IPR2018-01295. Petitions filed on June 29, 2018. 

Case Subject Matter – Communications, e.g. PCI Express (PCIe), USB, Firewire (IEEE-1394), between two processing nodes within a computing device such as a cell phone, tablet, or computer.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes reviews including writing declaration for inter partes review and was deposed.

DAVID ANDERSON, DAVID MAIORANA, AND MATTHEW JOHNSON

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Menlo Park, CA) and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Redwood Shores, CA)

Case – Micron Technology, Inc. v. North Star Innovations, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2018-00998 and IPR2018-00999. Petitions filed on May 1, 2018. 

Case Number – IPR2018-00989. Petition filed on April 27, 2018. 

Case Subject Matter – Output circuits for memory integrated circuits and voltage boosting circuits.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including writing declarations for inter partes reviews and was deposed.

JOHANNES HSU, PATRICK HERMAN, CHRISTOPHER SIEBENS, BRIAN CHANG, JASON LANG, AND LEEGER YU

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. Red Rock Analytics, LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2018-00555, IPR2018-00556, and IPR2018-00557. Petitions filed on February 5, 2018.

Case Subject Matter – Calibration of IQ balance in transceivers in wireless communications (OFDM, 802.11, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G, etc.).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

PAUL M. ANDERSON, CHETAN BANSAL, AND ARVIND JAIRAM

Covington & Burling LLP (Palo Alto, CA and Washington, DC)

Case – Phenix (sic) Longhorn, LLC v. Texas Instruments, Inc.

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:18-cv-00020. Complaint filed January 22, 2018.

Case Subject Matter – Circuit with non-volatile memory for gamma correction in a display screen.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declaration for claim construction, expert reports, and was deposed twice.

HYUN BYUN AND RANGANATH SUDARSHAN
Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Washington, DC) and Fish & Richardson P.C. (Washington, DC)

Case – BiTMICRO, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SK hynix Inc., Dell Inc., Lenovo Group Inc., HP Inc., ASUSTek Computer Inc., ASUS Computer International, ACER Inc., VAIO Corporation, and Transcosmos America Inc.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1097. Complaint filed January 8, 2018.

Case Subject Matter – Solid state storage drives (SSDs), stacked consumer electronics components (3D packaging, solder balls, flip-chip, TSVs, etc.), and products.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including direct witness statement, deposition, and testified at trial for pilot 100-day ITC proceeding.

CRAIG MURRAY, CHRIS MIZZO, AND JOHN RHINE - HONORABLE SANDRA (DEE) LORD

Morrison & Foerster LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – SK hynix, Inc. v. Netlist, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2018-00364 and IPR2018-00365. Petitions filed on December 27, 2017.

Case Numbers – IPR2018-00362 and IPR2018-00363. Petitions filed on December 22, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Memory using DDR DRAM (double data rate DRAM) modules, components, and products. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for patent owner in inter partes reviews, wrote declarations, and was deposed twice. 

MEHRAN ARJOMAND AND DAVID KIM

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP (San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL) and Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP (Houston, TX)

Case – Qualcomm, Inc. v. Apple, Inc.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1093. Complaint filed on November 30, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Certain mobile electronic devices and radio frequency integrated circuits and processing components thereof. Communications, e.g. PCI Express (PCIe), USB, Firewire (IEEE-1394), between two processing nodes.  

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

PATRICK CURRAN, SEAN LI, DANIEL PRATI, AND BRIANNE STRAKA 

Baker Botts LLP (Austin, TX, and Houston, TX)

Case – Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC d/b/a ON Semiconductor v. Power Integrations, Inc.

Case Number – IPR2018-00160. Petition filed on November 7, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Switched-mode power supplies and power supply controllers (power electronics).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

SETH LINDNER, BRETT THOMPSEN, AND ROGER FULGHUM 

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (Boston, MA)

Case – Netlist, Inc. v. SK hynix

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1089. Complaint filed on October 31, 2017. 

Case Subject Matter – Memory using DDR DRAM (double data rate DRAM) modules and components thereof. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including validity analysis, expert report, deposition, and testified at trial.

KRISTINA CARY, MATT GALICA, AND DREW DEVOOGD - HONORABLE CHARLES E. BULLOCK

Baker Botts LLP (Austin, TX, and Houston, TX)

Case – ON Semiconductor and Semiconductor Components Industries v. Power Integrations, Inc.

Case Number – Delaware, 1:17-cv-00247. First amended complaint filed on September 8, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Switched-mode power supplies and power supply controllers.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

SETH LINDNER, BRETT THOMPSEN, NICK SCHUNEMAN, AND ROGER FULGHUM 

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP (San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL and Seattle, WA)

Case – Qualcomm, Inc. v. Apple, Inc.

Case Number – California, SD 3:17-cv-01375. Complaint filed on August 25, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Electronics in consumer mobile devices. Communications, e.g. PCI Express (PCIe), USB, Firewire (IEEE-1394), between two processing nodes.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including infringement analysis, validity analysis, expert reports, was twice deposed, and testified at trial.

GAVIN SNYDER, RICHARD ERWINE, NATHAN HAMSTRA, MICHELLE CLARK, AND MICHAEL YOO - HONORABLE DANA M. SABRAW

Baker Botts LLP (Austin, TX, and Houston, TX)

Case – Power Integrations v. ON Semiconductor and Semiconductor Components Industries

Case – ON Semiconductor and Semiconductor Components Industries v. Power Integrations, Inc.

Case Numbers – California, ND (San Jose) 5:16-cv-06371 and California ND (San Jose) 5:17-cv-03189. Second amended complaint filed on August 14, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Switched-mode power supplies and power supply controllers.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for claim construction.

SETH LINDNER, BRETT THOMPSEN, NICK SCHUNEMAN, AND ROGER FULGHUM 

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Washington, DC)

Case – Ex Parte Reexamination

Case Number – 90/020,112. Request filed on July 31, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Multi-level non-volatile floating gate memory (MLC), e.g. EPROM, EEPROM, and flash technologies.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration.

NICK JEPSEN, TIM RIFFE, ANDY SCHWENTKER, AND ADAM SHARTZER

K&L Gates LLP (Chicago, IL) 

Case – United Microelectronics Corp., UMC Group (USA), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (Shanghai and Beijing), and SMIC (Americas) v. Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC 

Case Number – IPR2017-01513. Petition filed on July 20, 2017. 

Case Subject Matter – CMOS circuit fabrication. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

TINA THOMAS AND BENJAMIN WEED

Bosch Jehle and Fieldfisher (Munich and Dόsseldorf, Germany)

Case – Netlist, Inc. v. SK hynix, Inc.

Case Number – Complaint filed on July 11, 2017 in the German Federal Patent Court. 

Case Subject Matter – Memory modules and components and products containing same. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and attended trial at the German Federal Patent Court in Munich.

MATTHIAS BOSCH, BENJAMIN GRZIMEK, THOMAS HELL, LISA HERRMANN, KILIAN KLAIBER, AND JOERN PETERS 

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP (San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL and Seattle, WA)

Case – Qualcomm, Inc. v. Apple, Inc.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1065. Complaint filed on July 7, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Certain mobile electronic devices and radio frequency and processing components thereof.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including infringement analysis, validity analysis, expert reports, was deposed, and testified at trial.

NATHAN HAMSTRA, GAVIN SNYDER, AND MICHAEL YOO - HONORABLE THOMAS B. PENDER

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (Boston, MA and Washington, DC)

Case – Netlist, Inc. v. SK hynix, Inc.

Case Number – California, CD 8:17-cv-01030. Complaint filed on June 14, 2017. 

Case Subject Matter – Memory modules and components and products containing same. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

KRISTINA CARY, MATTHEW GALICA, ALEXANDRA PAPPAS, ANDY YU, AND DREW DEVOOGD

Russ August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Document Security Systems, Inc. v. Lite-On, Inc.

Case Number – California, CD 2:17-cv-06050. Complaint filed on August 15, 2017. 

Case – Document Security Systems, Inc. v. Everlight Electronics Co.

Case Number – California, CD 2:17-cv-04273. Complaint filed on June 8, 2017. 

Case – Document Security Systems, Inc. v. Cree, Inc.

Case Number – California, CD 2:17-cv-04263. Complaint filed on June 8, 2017. 

Case – Document Security Systems, Inc. v. Seoul Semiconductor Company, Ltd.

Case Number – California, CD 8:17-cv-00981. Complaint filed on June 7, 2017. 

Case Subject Matter – Light Emitting Diode ("LED") lighting products

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote claim construction declaration and was deposed.

JACOB BUCZKO, PAUL KROEGER, AND BRIAN LEDAHL

Dovel & Luner LLP (Santa Monica, CA) 

Case – X2Y Attenuators, LLC v. Intel Corporation 

Case Number – Oregon, D (Portland) 3:18-cv-01394 (moved from Pennsylvania, WD [Erie]). Complaint filed June 22, 2017. 

Case Subject Matter – Circuit arrangements that use relative groupings of energy pathways in capacitive filters for filtering noise on printed circuit boards (PCBs), electrical engineering. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

JEFF EICHMANN

Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York, NY and Washington, DC)

Case – Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:17-cv-00145. Complaint filed May 15, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Universal Serial Bus (USB) connections for data communications and charging.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote expert reports on invalidity and noninfringement, and was deposed.

ALEX HENRIQUES AND JAMES MCCONNELL

Paul Hastings LLP (Austin, TX and Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. ProMOS Technologies, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2017-01412, IPR2017-01413, IPR2017-01414, IPR2017-01415, and IPR2017-01416. Petitions filed on May 12, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Delay-Locked Loop (DLL) design, power supplies, and sensing in semiconductor memory.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed three times.

PAUL M. ANDERSON, CHETAN BANSAL, AND ARVIND JAIRAM

Baker Botts LLP (Austin, TX, Dallas, TX, and Palo Alto, CA)

Case – SanDisk LLC v. Memory Technologies, LLC 

Case Number – IPR2017-01420. Petition filed on May 10, 2017.

Case Number – IPR2017-01360. Petition filed on May 3, 2017.

Case Number – IPR2017-01116. Petition filed on March 20, 2017.

Case Number – IPR2017-01022. Petition filed on March 3, 2017.

Case Number – IPR2017-00868. Petition filed on February 9, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Memory cards including PC cards, compact flash (“CF”) cards, secure digital (“SD”) cards, programmable credit cards, and multimedia cards (“MMC”). Uses of EEPROM and Flash memory in built-in operating system (BIOS).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for inter partes review and wrote declarations. 

EBBY ABRAHAM, JASON GERMAN, AMY LIANG, BAILEY MORGAN, FRED QIU, CHRIS RYAN, ELIOT WILLIAMS, AND DAVID WU

DLA Piper (Atlanta, GA and East Palo Alto, CA) 

Case – Macronix International Co. v. Toshiba, Inc.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1046. Complaint filed March 7, 2017. 

Case Subject Matter – Non-volatile memory, such as flash and resistive (phase-change memory [PCM] using chalcogenide materials and programmable contacts in cross-point arrays) memory, and products containing the same.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services. Also provided Markman tutorial, expert reports, was deposed, and testified at trial.

KEVIN HAMILTON, ALAN LIMBACH, STEVEN PARK, GERALD SEKIMURA, AND BRENT YAMASHITA - HONORABLE SANDRA (DEE) LORD

Morrison & Foerster LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – SK hynix, Inc. v. Netlist, Inc.

Case Number – IPR2017-00577. Petition filed on January 5, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Memory modules using DDR DRAM, components, and products.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for patent owner in an inter partes review, wrote declaration, and was deposed.

MEHRAN ARJOMAND AND DAVID KIM

McAndrews Held & Malloy LTD (Chicago, IL)

Case – SK hynix, Inc. v. Netlist, Inc.

Case Number – IPR2017-00692. Petition filed on January 17, 2017.

Case Number – IPR2017-00587. Petition filed on January 6, 2017.

Case Number – IPR2017-00561. Petition filed on January 5, 2017.

Case Numbers – IPR2017-00560 and IPR2017-00562. Petitions filed on January 3, 2017.

Case Subject Matter – Volatile and non-volatile memory systems.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services for patent owner in an inter partes review, wrote declarations, and was deposed twice.

WAYNE BRADLEY

O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Newport Beach and Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Janus Semiconductor, LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc.

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:16-cv-01409. Complaint filed December 13, 2016. 

Case Subject Matter – Self-timed and self-enabled distributed clocking in electronic integrated circuits.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

BRAD BURG, JOHN KAPPOS, AND VINCENT ZHOU

Baker Botts LLP (Austin, TX, Dallas, TX, and Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Memory Technologies, LLC v. SanDisk LLC and Western Digital Corporation 

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1034. Complaint filed November 30, 2016. 

Case Subject Matter – SD Cards, microSD cards, programmable credit cards, eMMC (embedded Multi-Media Controller), and eMCP (embedded Multi-Chip Packages) products.
Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration.

DAVID DYER, AASHISH KAPADIA, AND CHRIS RYAN

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP (Denver, CO and Shanghai, China)

Case – Broadcom, Ltd. v. Invensas 

Case Number – IPR2017-00171. Petition filed on October 31, 2016.

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor random access memory circuit timing and operation.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declaration, and was deposed. 

JT BERGSTROM, KEN CHANG, AND KRIS REED

Paul Hastings LLP (Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. ProMOS Technologies, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2017-00036, IPR2017-00038, and IPR2017-00039. Petitions filed on October 7, 2016.

Case Subject Matter – Sensing in semiconductor memory integrated circuits.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed three times.

CHETAN BANSAL AND NAVEEN MODI

Munck Wilson Mandala LLP (Dallas, TX)

Case – ams AG, ams-TAOS, and Samsung v. JJL Technologies and 511 Innovations, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2016-01788, IPR2016-01792, IPR2016-01793, IPR2016-01804, IPR2016-01810, IPR2016-01818, and IPR2016-01819. Petitions filed on September 14, 2016.

Case Number – IPR2016-01787. Petition filed on September 13, 2016.

Case Subject Matter – Color and optical measuring systems.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

DAN VENGLARIK, KELLY CHEN, AND JAMIL ALIBHAI

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (Boston, MA and Washington, DC)

Case – Netlist, Inc. v. SK hynix

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-1023. Complaint filed on September 1, 2016. 

Case Subject Matter – Memory modules and components and products containing same. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including validity analysis, expert report, deposition, technology tutorial at trial, and trial testimony.

ALEXANDRA PAPPAS, ANDY YU, AND DREW DEVOOGD - HONORABLE THEODORE R. ESSEX

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (Boston, MA and Washington, DC)

Case – Netlist, Inc. v. SK hynix, Inc.

Case Number – California, CD (Santa Ana) 8:16-cv-01605. Complaint filed on August 31, 2016. 

Case Subject Matter – Memory modules and components and products containing same. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for claim construction.

KRISTINA CARY, MATTHEW GALICA, ALEXANDRA PAPPAS, ANDY YU, AND DREW DEVOOGD

Baker & Hostetler LLP (Cleveland, OH)

Case – Evolv, LLC v. Joyetech and Wismec

Case Number – California, CD 8:16-cv-00459. Complaint filed on March 9, 2016.

Case Subject Matter – Electronic personal vaporizers (also known as electronic cigarettes) containing power and USB battery charging electronics and switching power supplies using CMOS and power MOSFETs. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including lab testing and infringement analysis. Wrote declaration. 

BRENDAN CLARK, SHANNON MCCUE, AND DAVID KITCHEN

Vinson & Elkins LLP (San Francisco, CA)

Case – Polaris Innovations Limited v. Kingston Technology Company, Inc.

Case Number – California, CD 8:16-cv-300. Complaint filed on February 19, 2016. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor memory, circuits, and the design and fabrication of memory modules.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

CHRIS KAO, JEFF HAN, BROCK WEBER, AND SCOTT YOO

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (Boston, MA)

Case – Advanced Silicon Technologies LLC v. BMW, Fujitsu, Harman, Honda, NVIDIA, Renesas, Texas Instruments, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Audi 

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-984. Complaint filed on December 28, 2015. 

Case Subject Matter – Computing or graphics systems, components thereof, and vehicles containing same. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

ALEXANDRA PAPPAS, DREW DEVOOGD, AND ADAM RIZK

DLA Piper (East Palo Alto, CA, Chicago, IL, and Reston, VA)

Case – Lincoln Electric v. ESAB, Inc.

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:15-cv-01404. Complaint filed on December 15, 2015. 

Case Subject Matter – Power electronics including switching power supplies using power MOSFETs for welding equipment.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, claim construction, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, expert reports, and was deposed twice.

GIANNI MINUTOLI, HARPREET SINGH, KATHERINE CHEUNG, FERLILLIA ROBERSON, AND MATT SATCHWELL

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Houston, TX and Redwood Shores, CA)

Case – Micron Technology, Inc. v. Innovative Memory Systems, Inc.

Case Numbers – IPR2016-00320, IPR2016-00322, IPR2016-00325, IPR2016-00326, and IPR2016-00327. Petitions filed on December 14, 2015. 

Case Subject Matter – Data conversion, semiconductor fabrication, flash memory, and semiconductor memory device operation/control.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed three times.

JASON LANG, BLAKE DAVIS, MELISSA HOTZE, AND JUSTIN CONSTANT

Munck Wilson Mandala LLP (Dallas, TX) and O'Melveny & Myers LLP (Los Angeles, CA)

Case – 511 Innovations, Inc. v. Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, and ams-TAOS

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:15-cv-01526. Complaint filed on September 14, 2015. 

Case Subject Matter – Color and optical measuring systems.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, claim construction, wrote declaration, expert reports, and was deposed twice.

DAN VENGLARIK, KELLY CHEN, JAKE LACOMBE, JAMIL ALIBHAI, AND VINCENT ZHOU

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) and Mayer Brown LLP (Washington, DC)

Case – 511 Innovations, Inc. v. Microsoft and Avago

Case Number – Texas, ED (Marshall) 2:15-cv-01525. Complaint filed on September 14, 2015. 

Case Subject Matter – Color and optical measuring systems.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

BEN BYER, ERIC WALTERS, AND SAQIB SIDDIQUI

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Houston, TX, Redwood Shores, CA, and Washington, DC)

Case – Micron Technology, Inc. v. Limestone Memory Systems LLC

Case Numbers – IPR2016-00093, IPR2016-00094, IPR2016-00095, IPR2016-00096, and IPR2016-00097. Petitions filed on October 27, 2015. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor memory.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

JASON LANG, BLAKE DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER MARANDO, ADRIAN PERCER, AND JUSTIN CONSTANT

DLA Piper (East Palo Alto and Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Apple, Inc. v. Longitude Flash Memory Systems S.A.R.L.

Case Number – IPR2015-01933. Petition filed on September 21, 2015. 

Case Numbers – IPR2015-01924 and IPR2015-01925. Petitions filed on September 17, 2015. 

Case Numbers – IPR2015-01908 and IPR2015-01909. Petitions filed on September 14, 2015. 

Case Subject Matter – Non-volatile semiconductor flash memory fabrication and design.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declarations for inter partes reviews.

JOHN AU, HARPREET SINGH, KATHERINE CHEUNG, AND BRENT YAMASHITA

Paul Hastings LLP (New York City, NY and Washington, DC)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. Elbrus International Limited

Case Numbers – IPR2015-01523 and IPR2015-01524. Petitions filed on June 26, 2015.

Case Subject Matter – High-speed, low-power data transfer.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed.

JOEL LIN, STEVE PARK, JOE RUMPLER, AND NAVEEN MODI

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP (Menlo Park and San Francisco, CA)

Case – Consultant for SK hynix, Inc. on matters relating to investigation of certain patents owned by Longitude Licensing Ltd. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor random access memory and communication interfaces.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services in 2015.

THEODORE BROWN, BABAK SANI, BARMAK SANI, AND MICHAEL TSE

Ropes & Gray LLP (New York City, NY)

Case – Samsung, Inc. v. Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd.

Case Number – IPR2015-01233. Petition filed on May 21, 2015.

Case Subject Matter – Data interface circuits, such as I/O buffers, that can be either a single-ended interface or a differential interface.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes review, and was twice deposed.

STEVE PEPE AND FRANCES ZHANG

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Silergy Corporation v. Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. 

Case Numbers – IPR2015-00803 and IPR2015-00804. Petitions filed on February 24, 2015.

Case Subject Matter – Microelectronic packaging.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, wrote declarations for inter partes reviews, and was deposed.

DAVE SIMSON, ANDREW GRAY, AND COREY HOUMAND

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Houston, TX, Redwood Shores, CA, and Washington, DC)

Case – Limestone Memory Systems LLC v. Micron Technology, Inc. 

Case Number – California, CD 8:15-cv-00278. Complaint filed on February 17, 2015. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor memory.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, claim construction, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

JASON LANG, BLAKE DAVIS, CHRISTOPHER MARANDO, ADRIAN PERCER, AND JUSTIN CONSTANT

Jones Day (San Diego, CA) 

Case – Micron Technology, Inc. v. eDigital Corp.

Case Number – IPR2015-00519. Petition filed on December 31, 2014.

Case Subject Matter – Methods for memory management in non-volatile flash memories.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

MATTHEW FERRY

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Atlanta, GA and Washington, DC)

Case – Micron Technology, Inc. v. MLC Intellectual Properties and BTG USA/International Inc.

Case Number – IPR2015-00504. Petition filed on December 24, 2014.

Case Subject Matter – Multi-level non-volatile floating gate memory, e.g. EPROM, EEPROM, and flash technologies.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

ANDY THOMSON, ADAM SHARTZER, AND TIM RIFFE

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Houston, TX and Redwood Shores, CA)

Case – Innovative Memory Systems, Inc. v. Micron Technology, Inc. 

Case Number – Delaware, 1:14-cv-01480. Complaint filed on December 15, 2014. 

Case Subject Matter – Data conversion, semiconductor fabrication, flash memory, and semiconductor memory device operation/control.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, claim construction, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

JASON LANG, BLAKE DAVIS, MELISSA HOTZE, AND JUSTIN CONSTANT

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates (Palo Alto, CA)

Case – ALFRED T. GIULIANO, Chapter 7 Trustee of the Ritz Estate; CPM ELECTRONICS INC.; E.S.E. ELECTRONICS, INC. and MFLASH, INC., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. SanDisk Corp.

Case Number – California, ND (Oakland) 4:10-cv-02787. Fourth amended complaint filed on September 24, 2014. 

Case Subject Matter – Non-volatile semiconductor flash memory fabrication and design.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

IAN CHEN

DLA Piper (East Palo Alto and Los Angeles, CA)

Case – Longitude Licensing Ltd. and Longitude Flash Memory Systems S.A.R.L., v. Apple, Inc.

Case Number – California, ND 3:14-cv-04275. Complaint filed on September 23, 2014. 

Case Subject Matter – Non-volatile semiconductor flash memory fabrication and design.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, claim construction, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

JOHN AU, HARPREET SINGH, KATHERINE CHEUNG, AND BRENT YAMASHITA

Singularity LLP (Redwood Shores, CA)

Case – VIA Technologies, Inc. v. ASUS Computer International, AUSTEK Computer, and ASMedia Technology, Inc.

Case Number – California, ND (San Jose) 5:14-cv-03586. Complaint filed on August 7, 2014. 

Case Subject Matter – USB 3.0 circuits.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services including: noninfringement, invalidity, and trade secret analyses. Wrote expert reports, was deposed twice, and participated in mediation.

VID BHAKAR, MELISSA KEYES, AND RON LEMIEUX - MEDIATOR WAS ANTONIO (TONY) PIAZZA  

Paul Hastings LLP (New York City, NY and Washington, DC)

Case – Cascades Computer Innovation, LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Case Number – Illinois, ED 14-cv-05691. Complaint filed on July 24, 2014.

Case Subject Matter – DRAM memory data transfer.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

JOEL LIN AND NAVEEN MODI

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. v. Silergy Corporation

Case Number – California, ND 3:14-cv-01745. First amended complaint filed on July 7, 2014.

Case Subject Matter – Microelectronic packaging.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

JASON GETTLEMAN, ANDREW GRAY, AND COREY HOUMAND

Ropes & Gray LLP (East Palo Alto, CA, New York City, NY, and Washington, DC)

Case – Macronix International Co., Ltd. v. Spansion, Inc., Aerohive Networks, Allied Telesis, Ciena, Delphi Automotive, Polycom, Ruckus Wireless, ShoreTel, Tellabs, and TiVo

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-922. Complaint filed on June 27, 2014. 

Case Subject Matter – Devices containing non-volatile memory and products containing the same.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, Markman tutorial, and expert report.

MICHAEL KAHN, STEVE PEPE, MEGAN RAYMOND, JACK SHAW, ALLEN CROSS, AND CONOR MCDONOUGH 

Ropes & Gray LLP (Boston, MA and New York City, NY)

Case – Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung, Inc.

Case Number – Texas, ED (Sherman) 4:14-cv-00371. Complaint filed on June 9, 2014.

Case Subject Matter – Data interface circuits that can be either a single-ended interface or a differential interface.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, expert reports, deposition, and testimony at the trial.

MATT SHAPIRO, STEVE PEPE, AND FRANCES ZHANG - HONORABLE AMOS L. MAZZANT III

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP (San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC)

Case – Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. v. MediaTek, Inc., et. al.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-920. Amended complaint filed on May 27, 2014. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor integrated circuits and devices containing the same.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services.

DEREK TANG, RICHARD ERWINE, AND JOHN MCKEE

DLA Piper (East Palo Alto and San Diego, CA)

Case – GSI Technology, Inc. v. Cypress Semiconductor Corporation 

Case Number – IPR2014-00419. Petition filed on February 7, 2014.

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor static random access memory (SRAM) circuit design.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services and wrote declaration for inter partes review.

BRENT YAMASHITA, TIMOTHY LOHSE, AND KEVIN HAMILTON

Ropes & Gray LLP (Washington, DC)

Case – Macronix International Co., Ltd. v. Spansion, Inc., et al.

Case Number – Virginia, ED (Alexandria) 3:13-cv-00679. Complaint filed on November 20, 2013. 

Case Subject Matter – Non-volatile semiconductor flash memory fabrication and design.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

MEGAN RAYMOND, JIM DAVIS, AND BEN HUR

Cooley LLP (San Diego, CA)

Case – HSM Portfolio LLC and Technology Properties Limited LLC v. Fujitsu, AMD, Qualcomm, Inc., Elpida, SK Hynix, Micron, ProMOS, SanDisk, Sony, ST Microelectronics, Toshiba, ON, and Zoran

Case Number – Delaware, 1:11-cv-00770. Third amended complaint filed on June 28, 2013. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor sensing circuits.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

DREW KONING, BRIAN EUTERMOSER AND JIM BROGAN

DLA Piper (East Palo Alto and San Diego, CA)

Case – Cypress Semiconductor Corporation v. GSI Technology, Inc.

Case Number – California, ND 3:13-cv-02013. Complaint filed on May 1, 2013. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor static random access memory (SRAM) circuit design.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, claim construction, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

BRENT YAMASHITA, TIMOTHY LOHSE, AND KEVIN HAMILTON

Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP (Philadelphia, PA)

Case – Simon Nicholas Richmond v. Winchance Solar Fujian Technology, Target, Creative Industries, et. al.

Case Number – New Jersey, 3:13-cv-01954. Amended complaint filed on March 27, 2013. 

Case Subject Matter – Circuitry including solar cells, charging circuits, re-chargeable batteries, energy conversion for solar lighting.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

MATTHEW A. KELLY, III

DLA Piper (East Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Intellectual Ventures I/II LLC v. Toshiba, Inc.

Case Number – Delaware, 1:13-cv-00453. Complaint filed on March 20, 2013. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor memory and electronic interface circuits.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, expert report, was deposed, and testified at trial.

GIANNI MINUTOLI, KATHERINE CHEUNG, TIMOTHY LOHSE, AND CARRIE WILLIAMSON - HONORABLE SUE LEWIS ROBINSON

Alston & Bird, DLA Piper, Gibson Dunn, Katten, O'Melveny, Orrick, and WilmerHale (various locations in the USA)

Case – Freescale v. Funai, CSR, Zoran, MediaTek, Vizio, Sanyo, TPF, Top Victory Electronics, Envision Peripherals, AmTRAN, and Marvell

Case Number – Texas, WD (Austin) 1:12-cv-00644. Amended complaint filed on January 14, 2013. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor circuitry for voltage regulators, bus terminations, packaging, and signal processing.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, claim construction, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, and Markman tutorial.

BRENT YAMASHITA

Amin, Turocy & Watson LLP (San Jose and San Francisco, CA)

Case – InvenSense, Inc. v. Robert Bosch GmbH

Case Subject Matter – Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor design and manufacture.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services in 2013.

ANDREW OLIVER AND JOSH VAN HOVEN

Morrison & Foerster LLP (Los Angeles, Palo Alto, and San Francisco, CA)

Case – STMicroelectronics, Inc. v. InvenSense, Inc.

Case Number – California, ND 3:12-cv-02475. Complaint filed on May 16, 2012. 

Case Subject Matter – Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors including Gyroscopes and accelerometers.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, and wrote declaration.

PATRICK ZHANG, BITA RAHEBI, DANIEL MUINO, CHAD HIMEDA, ESTHER KIM, AND RUDY KIM

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP (Menlo Park and San Francisco, CA)

Case – Consultant for SK hynix, Inc. on matters relating to investigation of certain patents owned by Round Rock Research LLC 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor random access memory.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services in 2012.

BABAK SANI AND BARMAK SANI

Keker & Van Nest LLP (San Francisco, CA)

Case – Round Rock Research LLC v. SanDisk Corp.

Case Number – Delaware, 1:12-cv-00569. Complaint filed on May 3, 2012. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor non-volatile flash memory.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting including: invalidity analysis, noninfringement analysis, expert reports, and was deposed.

COREY JOHANNINGMEIER, AJAY KRISHNAN, AND LEO LAM

Perkins Coie LLP (San Diego, CA)

Case – ASUS Computer International v. Round Rock Research LLC

Case Number – California, ND (San Francisco) 3:12-cv-02099. Complaint filed on April 26, 2012.

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor memory and CMOS image sensors (CMOS imagers).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, claim construction, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, expert reports, and was deposed.

JOHN SCHNURER, JACK KO, JAMES C. PISTORINO, MIGUEL BOMBACH, PHIL MORIN, AND TAWEN CHANG

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Dr. Michael Jaffe’ as insolvency administrator for Qimonda AG v. LSI, Atmel Corp, Cypress, MagnaChip, and ON Semiconductor

Case Number – California, ND 3:12-cv-03166. Complaint filed on January 10, 2012. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor processing and manufacturing.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

AHREN HSU-HOFFMAN, BRETT SCHUMAN, AND SCOTT TESTER

Useful Arts IP (Cupertino, CA)

Case – Tezzaron (formerly Tachyon Semiconductor) v. Elm Technology Corporation

Case Number – Patent Interference No. 105,859. Declared on December 1, 2011.

Case Subject Matter – Packaging of semiconductors and through silicon vias (TSVs).

Work Performed – Patent interference, wrote declaration, and was deposed.

MIKE URE

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Nanya Technology Corporation v. Elpida Memory, Inc. and Kingston Technology Company, Inc.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-821. Complaint filed on November 21, 2011. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor DRAM design, fabrication, and manufacture. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting and reports on infringement, domestic industry, and validity. Also provided Markman tutorial, declarations, deposition, and testimony at the trial.

JOHN ZELE, BOB BUSBY, ADAM BROOKE, AND TAE-WOONG KOO - HONORABLE E. JAMES GILDEA

Ropes & Gray LLP (New York City, NY)

Case – Intellectual Ventures v. Sendai Nikon Corporation

Case Number – Delaware, 1:11-cv-01025. Complaint filed on October 26. 2011.

Case Subject Matter – CMOS image sensor design and manufacture. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

STUART YOTHERS AND HAN XU

Farella Braun + Martel LLP (San Francisco, CA)

Case – Round Rock Research LLC v. Dell, Inc.

Case Number – Delaware, 1:11-cv-00976. Complaint filed on October 14, 2011. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor DRAM design and manufacture. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, and wrote declaration.

DAVID ISMAY AND STEPHANIE SKAFF

Latham & Watkins LLP (San Francisco, CA)

Case – Altera Corp. v. LSI Corp. and Agere Systems, Inc.

Case Number – California, ND 4:11-cv-03139. Complaint filed on June 24, 2011. 

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor devices and electronics including phase-locked loops and clock recovery circuits. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

JIM DAY

Fish & Richardson P.C. (Washington, DC)

Case – Spansion LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Apple, Inc., Nokia Corp., PNY Technologies, Inc. Research In Motion Corporation, Transcend Information Inc.

Case Number – ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-735. Complaint filed on August 6, 2010.

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor flash memory manufacture, fabrication, and design. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

STEVEN BOWERS

Jones Day (Palo Alto, CA)

Case – LSI and Agere, Inc. v. Xilinx, Inc.

Case Number – New York, SD 1:09-cv-09719. Complaint filed on November 23, 2009.

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor digital design and clocking. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

HENRY WELCH

Morrison & Foerster LLP (New York City, NY)

Case – Innurvation, Inc. et al v. Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc., Sony Corporation of America, Toshiba America Electronics Components, Inc., and Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

Case Number – Maryland, 1:09-cv-01416. Complaint filed on May 29, 2009.

Case Subject Matter – Semiconductor circuit layout. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, and invalidity analysis.

SHERMAN KAHN

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C. (Palo Alto, CA)

Case – Panavision Imaging, LLC, v. OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Canon U.S.A., Inc., Micron Technology, Inc., Aptina Imaging Corporation, and Aptina, LLC.

Case Number – California, CD 2:09-cv-01577. Complaint filed on March 6, 2009.

Case Subject Matter – CMOS image sensor (CMOS imager) design, fabrication, and manufacture. 

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, two expert reports, and wrote declaration.

CATHERINE SHIANG AND JAMES YOON

McDermott Will & Emery (Menlo Park, CA)

Case – Volterra Semiconductor Corp. v. Primarion & Infineon Technologies North America & Infineon Technologies, A.G.

Case Number – California, ND 3:08-cv-05129. Complaint filed on November 12, 2008. 

Case Subject Matter – High-performance analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors and switching power supplies in CMOS using power MOSFETs.

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting, noninfringement analysis, invalidity analysis, two expert reports, and was deposed.

VERA ELSON, VANESSA LEFORT, AND VINOD MAPRANATH

Morrison & Foerster LLP (Palo Alto and San Francisco, CA) and Baker Botts LLP (Austin and Houston, TX) 

Case – Power Integrations, Inc. v. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc.

Case Number – Delaware, 1:08-cv-00309. Complaint filed on May 23, 2008. 

Case Subject Matter – Power conversion and power management integrated circuits used as power supplies for cell phones, LCD monitors, and computers. Circuits and techniques for the reduction of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio-frequency interference (RFI).

Work Performed – Provided expert consulting services, expert report, was deposed, and testified at re-trial for damages in November, 2018.

ESTHER KIM CHANG, TOM PARDINI, COLETTE REINER MAYER, AND PIETER DE GANON - HONORABLE LEONARD P. STARK

pre-2008 Minor expert witness work. Was deposed twice, once as an expert witness and the other time as a corporate witness.

 

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