Jack D. Grimes, Ph.D.
Dr. 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. Dr. 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. Dr. 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. View Full CV

Michael J. Potel, Ph.D.
Dr. Potel has over 35 years experience in the Computer and Software industries with Taligent, Apple Computer and the University of Chicago. Dr. 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. Dr. Potel has been 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. Dr. 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. View Full CV

David A. Wilson, Ph.D.
Dr. 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. Dr. 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 user interfaces (GUI), 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. Dr. 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. View Full CV

1005
Expert is a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and has 30 years of experience in the microprocessor field with over 30 patents. He has worked for major semiconductor manufacturers as an architecture manager, engineering manager, and principal engineer. His body of work includes the Itanium processor, graphics processors, and Pentium series, where he was involved in technical definitions, product requirements, and design options. He was also involved in early efforts of 64-bit architecture design and instruction set architecture. He has previous expert witness experience.

• Microprocessor Design
• VLSI Design
• Graphics processor Design
• Computer Architecture

1025
Expert has extensive experience with storage devices, interfaces and file systems, including Hard Disks, RAID/Disk Arrays, Tape, Optical Storage (CD, DVD, WORM, Magneto-Optical), jukeboxes, Storage Area Networks (SAN), SCSI, iSCSI, Fiber (Fibre) Channel, IDE/ATA/ATAPI, USB, as well as with Server Blades. He has written device drivers and software and firmware under Windows/DOS, UNIX variants (including Sun and Silicon Graphics) and embedded real-time operating systems (RTOSs). Expert has been a software developer, project lead, industry analyst, seminar leader, technical marketer and technical writer. He has participated in nearly 50 conferences as a speaker, session chair and conference chair. He is experienced with various programming languages, including C, C++ and assembly. Expert has also been an expert witness and expert consultant in nearly 50 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action and contractual disputes. These have drawn on over twenty years of experience in the storage industry and over thirty years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the storage, IC CAD, software and hardware industries. He has written expert reports, been deposed, and has provided courtroom testimony at trial. His engagements have involved source code analysis and comparisons, object code disassembly, benchmarking, and computer media duplication, as well as forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase.

• Device Drivers
• Embedded Firmware
• SCSI, iSCSI
• IDE/ATA/ATAPI
• Fiber (Fibre) Channel
• USB
• Real-time Operating Systems
• Optical Storage: CD, DVD, WORM
• Storage Area Networks (SAN)
• Disk Arrays/RAID
• Server Blades
• File Systems

1071
Expert has more than 25 years of experience CD-Rom technology, CD/DVD manufacturing technology and industry. Expert has prior expert witness experience.

• Authoring Tools
• CD/DVD Manufacturing Technology & Industry
• CD-R Technology
• CD-ROM Technology
• DVD Technology
• HTML & Apple OS
• Hypermedia Development
• Technical Writing & Editing
• Web Site Development

1092
Expert has 43 years experience - eighteen years in the computer peripheral industry and twenty-five years as an independent contractor-consultant. He has broad experience in all phases of Product Development - Advanced Technology through Manufacturing. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Electro-Mechanical design and development
• Product architecture design
• Initial design and development
• Prototype design, assembly and test
• Manufacturing, test equipment/life testers
• Design reviews/Problem solving
• Due diligence for investors
• Design and drafting courses

1136
This expert has been at the forefront of disk drive design for over 40 years. He is extensively published in his field as well as holding numerous patents. In addition to his direct experience, he has been working as a consultant and litigation support expert for over 30 years.

• Disk Drive Design
• Control System Design
• Analog/Digital Circuit Design
• System Interface Design
• Firmware development for electromechanical device control
• Software development for device attachment to system
• Magnetic Recording Technology
• ATM/Frame Relay/IP Network Product Design
• Operations Management
• Management Systems (ERP, MRP)
• Quality Assurance

1137
This expert is an active participant in and contributor to T10 (SCSI) standards committee since early 1980`s. Technical editor of SVP, the protocol for using SCSI over Infiniband and the VI Architecture. Active participant in and contributor to T11 (Fibre Channel) standards committee since 1995. Author of several definitive performance studies using a custom discrete event simulation model, examining both FC-AL and alternate loop architectures. He is knowledgeable of essentially all storage device interfaces in use or proposed for at least the last ten years. Primary architect of Digital Equipment`s DSA (Digital Storage Architecture) storage device protocols. Technical lead for first generation DLT tape drive controller.

• Input/Output Interfaces
• Storage Devices,
• Computer Peripherals
• Storage Architecture

1193
Over 40 years of software development, consulting, management, and expert testimony experience in all aspects of the computer field, from micros to mainframes, and in all areas of programming. Experienced as an engineer, software developer, supervisor, project manager, department manager, middle manager, and company executive. Forensic investigation, including reverse-engineering.

• Network Analysis/ Protocol analyzer
• Switches/ Routers
• Client server
• Computer Hardware
• Computer Peripherals
• Computer Software
• Database Applications
• MS-Windows Applications
• Operating Systems
• Resolution Enhancement Software
• Software Applications & Libraries

1290
Expert`s expertise centers on the fabrication and modeling of a wide variety of optical devices. His work is aimed at developing advanced read/write heads for optical data storage systems. He currently leads a major research group focused on optical and hybrid recording technologies. Expert holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics is a patent holder and is extensively published.

• Opto-Electronic Device Technology
• III-V Semiconductors
• Optical Data Storage Systems
• Laser Beam Deflectors
• Solid Immersion Lenses/Scanning Probe Microscopy
• Room-Temperature Radiation Detectors

1304
Expert holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on bachien vision. His research in image analysis, computer vision, pattern recognition and image instrumentation has also enabled him to pursue research in the fields of computational biology and quantitative microscopy. He is extensively published and holds multiple patents.

• Imaging
• Computer Vision
• Image Analysis
• Bioinformatics
• Microscopy
• Cellular Diagnostics

1327
Expert has extensive experience developing software for control for control and integration of computer peripherals.

• ATA
• ATAPI
• High speed microcontroller system design
• Disk drive design
• IDE
• Device Interface
• Removable Media
• CDROM

1347
Expert has over twenty-four years experience in analyzing, architecting, designing, managing, consulting, and teaching about computer systems and software, including eighteen years of analysis and architecture, fourteen years of hardware design, nineteen years of software design and programming, seven years of microprogramming, three years of lecturing and course development, and five years of management. Expert`s project involvement has included project management, processor design management, validation management, processor development, validation software tool development, analyzing existing designs and recommending improvements, analyzing circuits, architectures, and firmware for patent and copyright infringement litigation, architecting and specifying machine organizations for implementation by other groups, stepping into the middle of projects to complete and deliver designs, post-project support and enhancements, and taking projects from proposal, through implementation, to customer delivery and acceptance. Expert has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and prior litigation support experience.

• Computer Graphics
• Microprocessors
• Embedded Systems
• Computer Processor Verification
• Computer Performance Analysis
• Computer Software
• Computer System Architecture
• Video Graphics Architecture

1352
Expert holds a Ph.D. in Physics, is published and a patent holder. Has over 20 years experience in industry and academia focused on magneto-optical recording devices and research. Work has included developing the Digital Data Storage Devices & Systems Roadmap for INSIC - the Information Storage Industry Consortium, addressing future developments of long-term storage, pervasive storage and intelligent storage.

• Hard Disk Drives
• Magnetic Recording Heads
• Magnetic Recording Media
• Head, Media, Channel Integration
• Test & Measurement, Data Analysis
• Magnetic Recording Physics
• Perpendicular & Longitudinal Recording
• Magnetic Tape Recording

1360
Expert has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard. Expert is published and has prior litigation support experience.

• Device Physics
• Flat Panel Display Technology
• High Temperature Semiconductor Technology
• Magnetic Semiconductor Technology
• Material Sciences
• Polymer Chemistry
• Thin Film Materials Technology
• Tribology

1365
Originally trained as an earth scientist, with a specialization in quantitative fluid dynamics, Expert developed an early understanding of the potential for haptic computer interfaces through his efforts at producing 3D computer graphics. Expert has led the technical development of haptic orbs through three generations of prototyping, leading to the current commercial-ready device. His activities have included extensive software development for interface protocols and application programs, as well as detailed spec development of haptic orb electronics, design, ergonomic, and mechanical features. Expert has prior litigation experience.

• Haptics
• 3D Controllers
• 3D Computer Graphics
• Haptic Electronics, Design, Ergonomic and Mechanical features.
• Earth Sciences
• Hydrology

1374
Expert is a consultant who specialized in head media tribology evaluation and certification. Experience includes key trouble-shooter on mechanical and tribological related problems on new technologies and products. Invented two major solutions to problems for which patents have applied: Novel technique to minimize head media damage due to shock and miniature rotational shock sensor that eliminates loss of data due to shock while recording. His professional duties also included analysis of contaminant-related drive failures. He established contamination specifications for new products, as well as, functional and reliability testing for newly developed and released products and process quality assurance for pilot line manufacturing for a major hard drive maker.

• Hard Disk Mechanical Engineering
• Hard Disk Media Reliability
• Hard Disk Tribology
• Hard Disk Fluid Bearing Spindles
• Hard Disk Fluid Bearing Actuators
• Hard Disk Shock Sensors
• Product Development
• Quality Control Systems

1378
Expertise is in computer systems and electronic circuits. The breadth of this expertise spans computer hardware and software and many other products that utilize electronic circuits. Expert has been creating computing products for over twenty five years. Among these are computer I/O systems, video on demand systems, storage subsystems, computer controlled equipment, and high speed timing circuits. Expert legal consulting services include: expert witness, evaluating products for infringement issues, product testing to investigate root causes of failure and unit to unit variations, and assisting with technical language to accurately respond to interrogatories.

• Computer design and architecture, PC to Mainframe
• Operating systems, applications, programming languages
• Assembly language, firmware, microcode, drivers
• I/O systems, storage systems, Networking protocols (TCP/IP, etc)
• Processors, chipsets, controllers
• Real time control systems
• Digital circuit, analog circuit, and mechanical design
• Technical analysis and strategic planning
• Hardware and software evaluation, test plan creation and execution
• System performance and capacity measurements
• Logic analyzer and oscilloscope measurements
• Signal fidelity measurement
• Patent review
• Manufacturability and quality review

1379
Expert has professional experience in several overlapping technologies: computerized devices and equipment, industrial controls, automation, computer hardware and software, electronics and electrical & electronic engineering. He is a patent holder and has prior litigation support experience.

• Computers & Computerized Devices
• Industrial Controls & Automation
• SCADA & Telemetry Systems
• Computer Forensics
• Low Voltage Power Distribution & Control
• Intellectual Property
• Accidents & Damages
• Engineering Management
• Commercial Disputes
• Deposition & Trial Testimony - Qualified in US Federal Court

1381
Expert is a independent consultant with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He has over 15 years of experience designing ASICs, FPGAs, and PC boards for RISC-based parallel processor systems, laser printers, network switches and routers, and other real time systems. His clients have included Apple Computer, Cisco Systems, Intel, and Texas Instruments. Expert has taught courses at engineering conferences throughout the world. Expert has prior litigation support experience and holds multiple patents.

• Application software
• Embedded systems
• Networking devices
• ASIC, FPGA & PLD Design
• Firmware
• PCBs
• Assembly language, SQL, C/C++/C#, Java, Visual Basic
• FPGAs and CPLD
• Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS)
• Bus interfacing
• Imaging (laser printers, scanners, copiers
• Device drivers
• Memory subsystems and caches
• Verilog
• Digital signal processing (DSP)
• Microprocessors

2001
Consultant has considerable experience with small, real-time operating systems and device- and driver-level system software. His experience includes digital hardware design with emphasis on hardware and software interface performance issues like interrupts and DMA, and computer bus architecture with emphasis on PCI and PCI-X. Embedded systems and firmware including: Intel x86, Motorola 68000 series including the MC68VZ328 Dragonball, 6811 and i8051 designs. He is experienced with C, 80x86 assembly and Windows programming and has many years experience with various real-time kernels with emphasis on MicroC/OS and, most recently, Linux and its real-time variants. Six years experience teaching professional seminars on real-time programming and operating systems.

• Programming Languages
• Real-time & Linux Operating systems
• Microcontrollers
• BIOS
• Device Drivers
• Microprocessor Architecture
• PCI Interface Technology
• PCMCIA Bus Interface

2015
Professor Emeritus, present interests are in parallel and distributed processing and computer systems architecture. He is author or coauthor of more than 100 papers in these areas and the author of a book. He has served as an IEEE Computer Science Distinguished Visitor, and was an ACM National Lecturer. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow. He has served on many Editorial boards (IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, JPDC etc.) and Program Committees (PC Chair for ICPP 97, HPCA 98, co-PC chair for ISCA 83, General co-Chair for ISCA 90 etc.). Twenty-three Ph.D. students have completed their dissertation under his direction.

• Computer Architecture
• Network Processors
• Cache memory
• Cache Coherence
• Parallel Processing

2199
This expert has a Ph.D. in computer and systems engineering, and over 20 years experience in network management. She is currently a professor of computer science and is extensively published. In addition, she has experience in litigation support and public speaking.

• Network Management
• Statistical Signal Processing
• Network Fault Detection
• Learning processing

2204
This expert`s background includes over twenty years in the printer/copier/multifunction technology sector. He has extensive experience in controller development including overall engineering team management, controller architecture design, project management, and system verification and testing. He has detailed knowledge of and experience with printer controller technologies involving PostScript and PCL page description languages, JBIG stream data formats, Ethernet connectivity, USB host and device ports, memory card interfaces and graphical user interfaces. He has also been responsible for leading efforts related to the development of host-based printer drivers as well as network and web-based management and control utilities for printer devices. He is well versed in both the hardware and software aspects of printer/copier/multifunction controller design, including interfaces to print and scan engines as well as to remotely connected host systems. He has been responsible for implementing controller design for color and monochrome laser engines as well as scanner and inkjet devices. His responsibilities have spanned the range from product design through manufacturing outsourcing, regulatory approvals, cost reduction, and sustaining engineering.

• Printer/Copier/Multifunction device controller design/development
• Laser and Inkjet Print Engine Technologies
• Copy/printer imaging software
• Photo printing systems and imaging software
• Design Testing and Deconstruction
• Network connectivity
• USB communication channels
• Pictbridge and Bluetooth communication channels
• Host PC printer drivers
• Printer/Copier Performance, Quality, and Yield testing and related ISO test standards
• Patent analysis and litigation support