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Richard A. Blanchard, Ph.D.
Has over 35 years experience in the semiconductor and electronics industries, with Fairchild Semiconductor, Supertex, Siliconix, IXYS Corporation, Failure Analysis Associates (Exponent), IP Managers and SVEWG. Mr. Blanchard has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in semiconductor technology, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Foothill College. Dr. Blanchard was previously Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager of the Electrical & Electronic Division of Failure Analysis (Exponent) Associates, where he was employed for seven years. As Division Manager, he performed numerous forensic tests and analysis for Electronic & Electrical Systems and semiconductor devices, which were often subject to legal disputes, particularly those involving intellectual property rights. Dr. Blanchard has testified in court on numerous occasions as an expert witness, and has served as an arbitrator and a “Special Master” to the court. Dr. Blanchard has published several books and numerous articles on semiconductor technology and devices. He holds more than 130 US patents on semiconductor technology and is a member of the IEEE, the Electrostatic Discharge Society, and the International Micro-circuits and Packaging Society. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1982. |
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Clyde “Kip” M. Brown, Jr.
Has over 35 years experience in the semiconductor and electronics industry with GTE Sylvania, Siliconix, Intersil, Sage Enterprises, Raytheon, Fairchild, Mosel-Vitelic, Micrel and The Engineering Consortium Group. Mr. Brown has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in semiconductor technologies, with emphasis in analog mixed signal design and process engineering and has lectured and taught courses in analog and integrated circuit design at UC Berkeley and Cogswell Polytechnical College. Mr Brown has designed and fabricated numerous mixed signal ASICs using CMOS, Bipolar, BiCMOS and DMOS technologies. He has unique experience in low voltage CMOS and Bipolar applications including medical devices and hearing aids, on-chip optical sensors and sensor interfaces and has designed and developed circuitry used in over 30% of the hearing aid market worldwide. Mr. Brown has also designed and developed a full line of high voltage mixed signal “Smart Power” products, which received the “Top 100 products” award. Mr. Brown has testified as an expert witness in numerous high technology semiconductor litigation matters involving analog mixed signal, CMOS, Video IF circuitry, CCFl inverters, Power MOS devices, microprocessors, and semiconductor device design and process engineering. He has also served as a court appointed neutral arbitrator in complex technology. Mr. Brown has 10 US patents in semiconductor technology and is a member of NSPE/CSPE, IEEE, IMAPS (Past Chapter President), American Academy of Audiology and the International Hearing Society. He has received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Applied Science Electronics from Portland State University in 1967 and 1968, respectively. |
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Stephen Gray
Has over 30 years experience in the computer and communications industries with Burroughs, Olivetti, Computer Communications, Xerox, Simpact Associates, NTN Communications and Networld Exchange. Mr. Gray has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in computing platform architectures, E-Commerce and network engineering. He has designed relational databases, developed policies and procedures for “clean” software development environments, business process management software, Web services, SOA based BPM creation,, Internet based secure content digital rights management (DRM), highly scalable device controller for multifunction document processing, retail POS, LAN-based image capture and statement printing subsystem using IBM system with DBII relational database and SQL language, Sybase relational database in a client server architecture and object-oriented front end with UNIX, Oracle database products applications, FileNet developed IBM-to-UNIX interconnection for optical disk based document imaging and SNA technology with OS/2 and SAA. He is knowledgeable in C, C++, SQL, COBOL, RPG, VB, Basic assembler, IBM’s SNA distribution services and PtoP printing networks, Mr. Gray has testified as an expert witness in numerous technology E-Commerce, digital image transformation and storage, large scale software QA and system management, WEB services Protocols/SOA, software development tools, distributed computing architectures, source code analysis, Electronic cataloging, Electronic document storage, UNIX and relational database cases. Mr. Gray received a Bachelor of Science degree from California Polytechnic University’s in 1973. |
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Jack D. Grimes
Has over 35 years experience in the Computer, Internet and Video Graphics industries with ServiceHub, Visa International, ICVerify, Taligent, Mass Microsystems, Intel, IT&T, and Tektronix. Mr. Grimes has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Internet Commerce, Java, ASP, Unix, NT, scalability, security and payments, data security, chip cards, credit and debit cards, SET and ACH methods, computer graphics and TV video platforms, video capture and overlay systems, video display devices, ASIC design, compressed video, digital satellite TV technologies, and various internet platform architectures. He has developed Internet technology architecture with wireless data to SMS and browsers for mobile phones, chip card technology for Visa with internet payment systems, object-oriented applications for IBM, Apple and HP, video peripherals and graphic ASIC’s. Mr. Grimes has testified as an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving Payment Systems, Computer systems and displays, E-Commerce, automated trading systems, ASIC’s, LCD panel controllers, remote image capture, wireless technology, 3D graphics, CRT monitors, power saving circuits, and video display and graphic systems. Mr. Grimes has testified in numerous ITC, Markman and Federal patent cases and has published many articles in the aforementioned technologies. He received BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1965, 1968 and 1970, respectively and a MS degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1981. |
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Stephen B. Heppe
Has over 25 years experience in the area of communications engineering with General Electric Space Division, Stanford Telecommunications, Telenergy and the Insitu Group. Mr. Heppe has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in satellite communications, GPS/cellular and radio technologies, CATV user interfaces, Cell Networks, GSM and Voice over IP. He has developed aircraft avionics, including data radios, GPS navigation, satellite communications, video processing, RF transmission and sensors and flight control, as well as VHF radio communications protocol for aircraft networking, spectrum engineering for satellite communications (Globalstar), mobile satellite systems and various space based Government systems including Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS), the Strategic Defense System (SDS), spaced based radar (SBR), Milstar, NASA”s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRSS), various naval satellite systems and the network for the US Air Force Consolidated Space Operations Center (CSOC). Mr. Heppe is familiar with GPS position and velocity determination for aircraft, spacecraft and ground vehicles, differential GPS and automatic dependent surveillance (ADS), navigation accuracy determination, flight testing hardware and software and protocol development and signal processing. Mr. Heppe has testified in numerous patent cases and in an ITC matter. He has published several articles and holds 2 US patents in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BSEE degree (computer science emphasis) from Princeton University in 1977 and his MS and Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering (Communications emphasis) from George Washington University in 1982 and 1989, respectively. |
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Peter M. Martin
Has over 35 years experience in the computer and software engineering industries with Metilinx, Knowledgefirst, Ratestream.com, Visa International, Verity, Taligent, Apple Computer, Imatron, the Veterans Hospital and the US Navy. Mr. Martin has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in software development, test, evaluation and management, large global software systems, E-Commerce Systems, financial systems, control systems, source code analysis and data acquisition. He is knowledgeable in C, C++, Java, Perl, TCL, Basic, Assembler, Web based technologies, Quality Assurance and Test, Regulatory Compliance, LAN/Internet with open source technology and Mac OS. Mr. Martin has worked as an expert witness in numerous patent matters involving software technology, E-Commerce, large scale software QA and system management, WEB services Protocols and software development tools. Mr. Martin received a Bachelor of Science in Physics degree from Stanford University in 1967 and a Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1969. |
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Michael J. Potel
Has over 35 years experience in the Computer and Software industries with Taligent, Apple Computer and the University of Chicago. Mr. Potel has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Internet Commerce, Java, Internet software, User Interfaces, 3D Imaging, Personal Computing, Object-Oriented Systems, Computer Graphics, Software IP and various Operating Systems. He has developed products with Java and C++ class libraries, tools and component based groupware, Apple Computer-Macintosh products, OS, QuickTime, QuickDraw, TrueType, AppleScript, MAC ROM’s, multimedia products and Apple II, Graphics cards, Video, Sound and Speech cards and chips, RISC, Apple MIDI interface and various systems applications. Mr. Potel has testified as an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving Graphics projection systems, 3D graphic and video processors, printer halftone dithering technology, Web Servers, E-Commerce, Browsers, 2D and 3D in CAD systems, Java databases, WEB authoring systems, wireless messaging and email protocols, Object-oriented software development tools, game systems graphics, WAP/WML Internet and Object technology, Video interfaces and Internet image displays. Mr. Potel has testified in numerous Federal patent cases, Markman hearings, and has published many articles and Journal publications in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1970, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Information Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1971 and 1977, respectively. |
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David A. Wilson
Has over 35 years experience in the Computer and Software industries with Portal Software, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, Xerox, SRI International, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Mr. Wilson has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Java technologies, Object-Oriented Programming, XML/SOAP web services, C++, Smalltalk, Objective-C, Microsoft NET technologies, Distributed Computing including COBRA and Java RIM, Graphical and User interfaces, Software development practices, processes, reuse, frameworks and design patterns, Artificial Life technologies, Genetic Algorithms, Visual Programming Languages, Digital Cameras and Ultrasonic Imaging systems for Medical Diagnostics. He has developed software products including a dataflow-based visual programming language for doing complex numeric and financial calculations, two C++ applications frameworks, various Java tools for managing billing systems, a Java-based prototype of an automated teller machine, a real-time UV Visible Spectrophotometer and numerous real-time ultrasonic imaging systems for medical diagnostics. Mr. Wilson has testified as an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving Visual Programming Languages, Nuclear Medicine software, Data Mining software, Telecommunications Billing Systems software and Traffic Systems software and has published many articles and Journal publications in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1965, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1967 and 1970, respectively. |
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John C. Bravman, Ph.D.
Has over 25 years experience consulting for the Computer, Semiconductor, Consumer Electronics and Material Sciences industries with Fairchild Semiconductor Laboratories, Lockheed, National Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Intel and Applied Plasma Laboratories. John currently serves at Stanford University as the Bing Centennial Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering, the Freeman–Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and Dean of the Freshman-Sophomore College. Professor Bravman joined the Stanford faculty in 1984 after completing his B.S. (1979), M.S. (1982), and Ph.D. (1984) degrees at Stanford. From 1996 to 1999 he was Chairman of his department, and from 1992 to 2001 he was the Senior Associate Dean in the School of Engineering. Professor Bravman has consulted and testified in numerous intellectual property litigation matters in Federal, District and ITC venues concerning IC Failure Processes and Phenomena, Mechanical Behavior of Thin Films, High Spatial Resolution Materials Analysis, Microelectronic Materials Analysis, Electromigration Phenomena, Microelectronic Packaging, Structures and Materials. He has also served the government on many review boards, including the Solid State Sciences Committee, and has served on or chaired the national advisory board of the materials programs at Sandia National Laboratories and the chemical and materials sciences program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. In 1994 he was President of the Materials Research Society. Professor Bravman teaches and advises undergraduates at all levels and directs doctoral students in the areas of silicon process technology, the mechanical properties of thin films, and transmission electron microscopy. He is co-author of over 170 research publications. He has won nine teaching and advising awards while at Stanford, served as a Resident Fellow, a University Fellow, and has chaired many university committees on integrated circuit manufacturing. |
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