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Network Communications 

Law Firm: Cozen O’connor 

Case Name: TCL Communication Technology Holding 

Patent No: US 6,058,304 and US 7,139,591

Service Provided: IPR declarations, deposition

Type of Matter: Wireless telephony, handheld wireless device architecture

Date: March 2020

Network communications 

Law Firm: Oblon (PTAB) and Pepper Hamilton (Federal) 

Case Name: Polycom, Inc. v. directPacket Research, Inc. 

Patent No: US 7,710,978, US 7,773,588, and US 8,560,828 

Service Provided: Six PTAB IPR declarations, multiple depositions 

Expert reports for federal court, a deposition 

Type of Matter: Firewall and secured multimedia communications 

Date: June 2019 

Wireless Communications 

Law Firm: Knobbe Martens, and ROBIC LLP 

Case Name: Guest Tek v. Nomadix - Case No. T-448-17 Federal Court 

in Canada 

Patent No: CA 600,760, CA 2,750,345, CA 2 790 354, and 2 817 932. 

US8811184, US9154435, US9531640, US9871738 

Service Provided: Investigation, expert reports, testimony in a Canadian 

Court 

Type of Matter: Wireless and communications access control 

Date: June 2019 

Mobile devices 

Law Firm: Klarquist Sparkman LLP 

Case Name: Microsoft V. Uniloc USA, IPR

Patent No: US8,724,622

Service Provided: IPR expert report 

Type of Matter: IPR expert report (very similar to Apple, Facebook 

WhatsApp expert reports) 

Date: 2019 

Network Security, Firewall 

Law Firm: Unified Patents 

Case Name: Unified Patents v. FireNet Technologies LLC, IPR 

Patent No: US 8,892,600 

Service Provided: IPR expert report 

Type of Matter: Access and security of data networking attached devices, 

Network Firewall, Proxy Server 

Date: 2019 

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Network communications 

Law Firm: Novack and Macey LLP 

Case Name: Guaranteed Rate, Inc. v. Netrix 

Patent No: MPLS and broadband architecture 

Service Provided: Expert report, deposition 

Type of Matter: MPLS and broadband architectures using Cisco equipment 

Date: 2019 

Network communications 

Law Firm: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 

Case Name: Citrix Systems, Inc. v. Avi Networks, Inc., No. 17-1843-

LPS (D. Delaware) 

Patent No: US 9,148,493, US 8,631,120 

Service Provided: Expert declarations for PTAB IPR 

Type of Matter: Declaration for Claim construction brief, depositions 

Date: 2019 

Mobile devices 

Law Firm: Erise IP P.A. 

Case Name: Apple Inc. v. Voip-Pal.com, Inc.; Inter Partes Review 

Patent No: US 9,537,762; US 9,813,330; US 9,826,002; and US 

9,948,549 

Service Provided: Expert declarations 

Type of Matter: VoIP and network communications 

Date: 2019 

Web Application and Database 

Law Firm: Fish & Richardson P.C. 

Case Name: Ticket Network, Inc. and Ticket Software LLC v. 

CEATS, Inc. 

Patent No: US7,548,867, US7,640,178 

Service Provided: IPR Expert reports, deposition 

Type of Matter: Web reservation over Internet and Database consistency 

over multiple reservations instances 

Date: 2017-2018 

Wireless 

Law Firm: The WEBB Law Firm 

Case Name: Amazon Inc v. Hera Wireless 

Patent No: US7,454,234, US7,369,878, and US7,873,389 

Service Provided: Research, analysis and drafting expert report (not filed) 

Type of Matter: Wireless technologies, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/n, MIMO 

Date: 2018 

Network communications 

Law Firm: Mei & Mark LLP ( / Devlin Law Firm LLC)

Case Name: ATEN International Co., LTD v. Uniclass Technology Co., 

LTD 

Patent No: US6,957,287, US7,472,217, US7,640,289 and 

US8,589,141 

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Service Provided: Several infringement expert reports. Testified in 

depositions. Testified in front of a judge and jury. 

Type of Matter: Patents related to KVM switch architectures 

Date: 2016-2017 

Mobile devices 

Law Firm: Stern Kessler Goldstein Fox 

Case Name: Apple V. Uniloc USA, IPR2017-01804

Patent No: US8,724,622

Service Provided: IPR expert report 

Type of Matter: IPR expert report (the same as for Facebook WhatsApp) 

Date: 2017 

TCP/IP, Internet Protocols 

Law Firm: Wolf Greenfield LLP 

Case Name: IPR for Huawei and RPX

Patent No: US6,738,378 & US6,252,848 

Service Provided: IPR expert report 

Type of Matter: Patents in network communications 

Date: 2017 

Wireless Mobile Devices 

Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &Dunner, LLP 

Case Name: LG and Huawei V. Intellectual Venture 

Patent No: US8,994,433 

Service Provided: IPR expert report 

Type of Matter: IPR expert report (the same as for Facebook WhatsApp)

Date: 2017 

Mobile wireless 

Law Firm: Perkins Coie LLP 

Case Name: T-Mobile v. Barkan Wireless Access Technologies L.P. 

Patent No: US8,559,369 and US9,042,306 

Service Provided: Expert for T-Mobile in a single IPR for these two patents 

Type of Matter: Wi-Fi Tethering in broadband cellular data 

Date: 2017 

Mobile wireless, cellular systems 

Law Firm: Cooley, LLP 

Case Name: Facebook, Inc., Instagram LLC v. Skky, LLC 

Patent No: 

US8,892,465, US9,118,693, US9,124,717, US9,124,718, 

US9,203,870, US9,203,956, US9,215,310 and US 

9,219,810, 

Further IPRs for Patent Nos. US8,892,465, US9,118,693, 

US9,124,717 and US9,124,718 

Service Provided: Expert for defendant Facebook, IPR and CBM expert 

reports, Testified in depositions 

Type of Matter: Patents related to cellular systems using OFDM 

Date: 2017 

Mobile wireless, Unified Communications 

Law Firm: Cooley, LLP 

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Case Name: Facebook, WhatsApp. V. Uniloc USA, Inc. 

Patent No: 

US8,199,747, US8,995,433, US8,243,723, and US 

7,535,890 

IPR2017-01524, IPR2017-01365, IPR2017-01523 

Service Provided: Expert for defendant Facebook. Wrote IPR expert reports. 

Testified in depositions. 

Type of Matter: Patents related to VoIP, Cellphone Short Messages, Chat 

app 

Date: 2016 

Unified communications 

Law Firm: Akerman LLP 

Case Name: YMax Corporation v. Focal IP, LLC 

Patent No: US7,764,777, US8,155,298, US8,724,622 and US 

8,457,113 

Service Provided: 

Expert for defendant and IPR petitioner, YMax corp. Wrote 

three IPR expert reports for the PTAB. Testified in 

depositions. 

Type of Matter: Patents related to telecommunicators architecture, PSTN, 

and VoIP 

Date: 2016 

Mobile devices, wireless network, cellular systems 

Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP 

Case Name:

FedEx (RPX) v. Intellectual Ventures IPR2017-00729, 

IPR2017-00741

Intellectual Ventures II LLC and Callahan Cellular L.L.C. v. 

FedEx Corp. 

Patent No: US6,633,900 and US8,494,581 

Service Provided: Wrote two IPR expert reports. Testified in depositions 

Type of Matter: Patents related to mobile devices over wireless networks. 

Date: 2016 - 2017 

Routing Switching 

Law Firm: Warner Norcross & Judd 

Case Name: Patentmarks Communications, LLC v. Internap 

Corporation 

Patent No: US6,016,307, US6,473,404, US6,144,641, US8,400,926 

and US9,036,499 

Service Provided: Expert for the defendant. Wrote a claim construction 

declaration. 

Type of Matter: Patents related to multi-protocol telecommunications 

routing optimization 

Date: 2016 

Mobile wireless (SMS on WhatsApp) 

Law Firm: Cooley, LLP 

Case Name: Facebook IPR PTAB v. Windy City 

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Patent No: 

US8,458,245, US8,407,356, US8,473,552 and 

US8,694,657 

(IPR2016-01157, IPR2016-01158, IPR2016-01159, 

IPR2016-01156) 

Service Provided: Expert for petitioner Facebook, Inc., wrote a IPR expert 

report for the PTAB. Testified in depositions. 

Type of Matter: Patents related to network communications 

Date: 2016 

Network communications 

Law Firm: Winston & Strawn 

Case Name: RPX IPR PTAB filing 

Patent No: US8,788,090 

Service Provided: Expert for petitioner RPX, wrote an IPR expert report for 

the PTAB 

Type of Matter: Patents related to network communications 

Date: 2016 

Network Management 

Law Firm: Cooley, LLP 

Case Name: ServiceNow, Inc. v. BMC Software, Inc. 

Patent No: 

USPTO PTAB IPR Cases: IPR2015-01555; IPR2015-

01211; IPR2015-01631; IPR2015-01601. CBM Case 

CBM2015-00170 ,2:14-CV-00903 

US8,646,093; US8,646,093 (CBM as well), US7,617,073; 

US8,674,992; US6,816,898 

Service Provided: 

Expert for defendant and IPR petitioner, ServiceNow, Inc., 

wrote IPR and CBM expert reports for PTAB, wrote expert 

reports for claim constructions. Testified in depositions. 

Type of Matter: Patents related to network management 

Date: 2015 

Internet protocols, routing and switching 

Law Firm: Cooley, LLP 

Case Name: ServiceNow, Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Company 

Patent No: 

USPTO PTAB IPR Cases IPR2015-00707; IPR2015-

00716; IPR2015-00631; IPR2015-00717; IPR2015-00707. 

CBM 

Cases CBM2015-00108; CBM2015-00077 

US7,925,981; US7,945,860; US7,392,300; US7,027,411; 

US7,925,981, US7,945,860 (CBM); US7,925,981 (CBM) 

Service Provided: 

Expert for defendant and IPR petitioner ServiceNow, Inc., 

wrote IPR and CBM expert reports for the PTAB

Cases IPR2015-00631, IPR2015-00717. Testified in 

depositions.

Type of Matter: Patents related to Web services and Internet technologies 

Date: 2015 

Internet Protocols, TCP/IP , Network Management, SNMP 

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Law Firm: Holland & Knight, LLP 

Case Name: SNMP Research International, Inc., et al. v. Avaya, Inc. 

Service Provided: Expert for defendant Avaya, Inc., wrote expert reports. 

Testified in a deposition. 

Type of Matter: Network management for IP-PBX 

Date: 2015 

Routing Switching, Internet Protocols 

Law Firm: Perkins Coie, LLP 

Case Name:

Qurio Holdings v. DIRECTV

Case No. 15-cv-01986-HSG (N.D. CA), and 3 IPR petitions 

IPR2015-02005, IPR2015-02006, IPR2015-02007 

Patent No: US7,787,904, US8,102,863 and US8,879,567 

Service Provided: Expert for defendant and IPR petitioner DIRECTV, wrote 

three IPR expert reports 

Type of Matter: Mobile device control, WAN to wireless LAN gateway, 

wireless LAN gateway 

Date: 2015 

Mobile wireless (handset mobile devices) 

Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & 

Dunner, LLP 

Case Name: FedEx Corporation and FedEx Corporate Services, Inc., 

Petitioner v. Loramax LLC, Patent Owner 

Patent No: US5,689,642 and US5,513,126

Service Provided: 

Expert for defendant and IPR petitioner FedEx 

Corporation, wrote an IPR expert report. 

(Plaintiff dismissed the case without IPR filed) 

Type of Matter: Improving communication between devices or stations 

Date: 2015 

Mobile and Wireless, Cellular System, 

Law Firm: McGuire Woods, LLP 

Case Name: Expert for GT&T

Service Provided: Expert for a cellular telecommunications company 

Type of Matter: Analysis of cellular network and phone systems. 

Date: 2015 

Network Security 

Law Firm: Wolf Greenfield, LLP 

Case Name: MD Security Solutions, LLC v. RPX

Patent No: US7,864,983 

Service Provided: Expert for IPR petitioner RPX, wrote an IPR expert report 

Type of Matter: Network communications for alarm systems 

Date: 2015 

Mobile devices 

Law Firm: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP 

Case Name: IXI Mobile v. Apple Inc. 14-cv-7954 SDNY 

Patent No: US7,295,532, US7,426,398, US7,016,648, and US 

7,039,033 

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Service Provided: Searched for prior art, prepared invalidity claim charts 

Type of Matter: Invalidity claim charts related to iPhone, iPad, and others, 

Apple’s mobile wireless products and technologies

Date: 2015 

Network communications 

Law Firm: Hovey Williams, LLP 

Case Name: USPTO Office Action App. 13/432.775 (NetAirus) 

Patent No: Patent App. 13/432.775 

Service Provided: Wrote a short declaration for an office action 

Type of Matter: Desktop computer configuring the system 

Date: 2015 

Routing and switching, TCP/IP, Internet Protocols 

Law Firm: Kirkland & Ellis, LLP 

Case Name: Spherix v. Cisco Systems

1:14-cv-393-SLR (D. Del.) 

Patent No: 

US RE40467, US 6,697,325, US 6,578,086, US 6,222,848, 

US 6,130,877, US 5,970,125, US 6,807,174, US 

7,397,763, US 7,664,123, US 7,385,998, US 8,607,323 US 

6,879,594, US 6,661, 788, US 6,233,245, US 6,684,241, 

US 6,661, 788, US 6,879,594 

Service Provided: Searched for prior art, invalidity claim charts, and 

investigation 

Type of Matter: Network communication, routing, and switching 

technologies 

Date: 2014 

Routing switching, network communications, TCP/IP 

Law Firm: Desmarais, LLP 

Case Name: Bockstar Technologies, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. 

Case No. 1: 13-cv-2020-SLR (D. Del.) 

Patent No: US 5,732,080, US 6,069,895, US 6,233,245, US 

6,636,508, US 6,684,241, US 6,778,653 

Service Provided: Research and analysis of the prior art 

Type of Matter: Network communication, routing, and switching 

technologies 

Date: 2014 

Routing switching, Network Communications, Internet 

Protocols, TCP/IP 

Law Firm: Armstrong Teasdale, LLP 

Case Name: Cisco Systems, Inc. - USPTO Inter Partes Review (IPR) 

(the petition was not filed) 

Patent No: US 5,583,862 

Service Provided: Expert for petitioner Cisco Systems, Inc., wrote invalidation 

expert reports for the USPTO PTAB 

Type of Matter: Patent-related to telecommunications, routing and 

switching technologies 

Date: 2014 

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Network communications 

Law Firm: Fish Richardson, LLP 

Case Name: Mobotix - Inter Partes Review IPR2015-00093 

Patent No: US 6,975,220 

Service Provided: Expert for petitioner Mobotix, wrote invalidation expert 

reports for the USPTO PTAB 

Type of Matter: USPTO Inter Partes Review (IPR), patent related to 

network architecture 

Date: 2014 

Routing switching 

Law Firm: Faegre Baker Daniels, LLP 

Case Name:

Brilliant Optical Solutions, LLC v. Comcast 

District of Colorado, Case no. 1:13-CV-00886-REB-KMT 

and USPTO Inter Partes Review (IPR) 

Patent No: US 5,555,478 

Service Provided: 

Expert for defendant and IPR petitioner Comcast, wrote 

invalidation expert reports for the USPTO PTAB IPR 

(Plaintiff dismissed the case without IPR filed) 

Type of Matter: Patent-related to routers’ switching fabric architecture

Date: 2014 

Routing Switching, Network Communications, 

Law Firm: Irell & Manella, LLP, CA 

Case Name:

Brixham Solutions, LTD, vs. Juniper Networks

3:13-cv-00616-JCS (N.D. CA) 

and USPTO IPR 2014-00425 and IPR 2014-00431 

Patent No: US7,940,652 and US7,535,895 

Service Provided: Wrote two invalidation expert reports for the USPTO 

PTAB. Testified in depositions. 

Type of Matter: 

Expert for defendant and IPR petitioner Juniper Networks, 

patent related to routers’ switching fabric architecture and 

a patent related to Ethernet pseudo-wire VPN 

Date: 2014 

Mobile Systems, Cellular Networks, an ITC Case 

Law Firm: McKool Smith (Dallas, TX) 

Case Name: Ericsson v. Samsung (ITC) 

ITC Investigation NO. 337-TA-862 

Patent No: US6,772,215, US6,519,223 

Service Provided: Wrote several expert reports. Testified in depositions. 

Testified in the ITC court. 

Type of Matter: Patent-related to cellular systems, CDMA, GSM, UMTS, 

LTE, and wireless network communications 

Date: 2013 

Routing Switching, Network Communications 

Law Firm: Keker& Van Nest, LLP 

Case Name: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC et al. v. BT 

Americas, Inc. 

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3:12-cv-01712-M (N.D. Tex.) 

Patent No: US7,142,508, US5,638,516 

Service Provided: Analysis, claim terms, and Markman claim construction 

Type of Matter: MPLS technology 

Date: 2013 

Unified communications, streaming video and VoIP 

Law Firm: Williams, LLP ( KS) 

Case Name: NetAirus Systems LLC v. Kappos 

USPTO 1:12-cv-00709-AJT-JFA, 1:12-cv-01207-AJT-TRJ 

Patent No: US5,280,583, US5,589,849, US2005/0110780 A1 

Service Provided: Wrote a declaration regarding claim amendment 

Type of Matter: Video conference application program 

Date: 2013 

Wireless Networking 

Law Firm: Slater&Matsil, LLP (Dallas, TX) 

Case Name: e-Watch, Inc. v. Mobotix Corp. 

USPTO Reexamination 

Patent No: US6,970,183 

Service Provided: Expert for petitioner Mobotix Corp. 

Wrote an invalidity declaration - USPTO IPR2013-00255 

Type of Matter: A wireless monitoring system, wire-line networking 

Date: 2013 

Network Communications 

Law Firm: Nixon Peabody (Chicago, IL) 

Case Name: Teradici’s - USPTO Re-examination 

Patent No: US6,012,101, US5,604,509, US5,577,205 

Service Provided: Wrote an invalidity expert report 

Type of Matter: Patents related to network communications remote KVM 

Date: 2012 

Network Communications 

Law Firm: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP (Irvine, CA) 

Case Name: Wassink v. ACS (Affiliated Computer Systems, Inc.) 

8:11-cv-00554-CJC-MLG (C.D. CA) 

Service Provided: Wrote an expert report 

Service Provided: Cisco certification of IT personnel 

Date: 2012 

Mobile Wireless 

Law Firm: Kenyon& Kenyon, LLP

Case Name: HumanEyes Technologies, LTD v. Sony Electronics (ITC) 

1:12-cv-00398 (D. Del.) 

Service Provided: Investigation of patents and related technologies 

Type of Matter: Software related to mobile devices including panoramic 

imaging 

Date: 2012 

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Network Communications Protocols 

Law Firm: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (New York, 

NY) 

Case Name: Realtime Data v. Morgan Stanley et al 

1:11-cv-6696,-6701,-6704 (S.D. N.Y.) 

Service Provided: Wrote a rebuttal to an infringement report, was deposed 

Type of Matter: Technology related to network communication protocol 

Date: 2012 

Network Security, VPN, SSL 

Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP 

Case Name: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. v. VanguardBank and 

PNC Bank 

Patent No: US5,940,510, US5,949,880, US6,105,013, US6,237,095

Service Provided: Investigation of prior art 

Type of Matter: Patents litigation related to virtual private networks (VPN) 

and secure service layer (SSL) 

Date: 2012 

Mobile wireless, Cellular systems 

Law Firm: Foley & Lardner, LLP 

Case Name: M2M Solutions, LLC v. Sierra Wireless, CA No. 12-030-

RGA (D. Del.) 

Patent No: US7,583.197, US8,094,010 

Service Provided: Investigation of the prior art, claim charts 

Type of Matter: Patents related to wireless and mobile devices in cellular 

systems 

Date: 2012 

e-Commerce, Internet and Web Technologies 

Law Firm: Goldstein & Lipski, PLLC (Houston, TX) 

Case Name:

Site Update Solutions, LLC v. Accor North America, Inc. 

et al.

4:11-CV-03306-PJH (N.D. CA), Ipr2016-01235, Cbs Corp., 

15-1448, 13-1458, 5:11cv3306 

Patent No: US RE40.683, US 6,253,198 

Service Provided: A declaration 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to Internet web technologies and ecommerce 

Date: 2012 

Internet and Web Technologies 

Law Firm: Goldstein & Lipski, PLLC (Houston, TX) 

Case Name: EIT Holdings LLC V. Netflix and Barnes & Noble Inc. 

Patent No: 5:11-CV-02466; 2012 WL 728387, 1:10-CV-01081,2011 

WL 7149251,2011 WL 7149248 

Service Provided: Expert report 

Type of Matter: Patent-related to Internet and Web technologies 

Date: 2012 

Bandwidth and network access 

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Law Firm: Russ, August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA) 

Case Name: Proxyconn, Inc. v. Microsoft et al. 

8:11-cv-1681-DOC-AN (C.D. Cal) 

Patent No: US6,757,717, US6,370,646 

Service Provided: Investigation of technology, was deposed 

Type of Matter: Speed data accessing in communication networks 

Date: 2012 

Network communications 

Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP 

Case Name: Walker Digital v. Google1:11-cv-00318-LPS (D. Del) 

Patent No: US5,884,272, US5,884,270, US5,824,082, US 5,136,501, 

US5,832,497 

Service Provided: Invalidity analysis, investigation of patents and related 

technologies 

Type of Matter: Internet and e-commerce technologies 

Date: 2012 

Bandwidth Allocation 

Law Firm: Hosie Rice, LLP (San Francisco, CA) 

Case Name: BackWeb v. HP and IBM 4:10-cv-04311-PJH 

Service Provided: Investigated patents and related technologies 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to network communication 

bandwidth allocation 

Date: 2012 

Mobile wireless and SMS, streaming video in Cellular 

systems 

Law Firm: Hogan Lovells US, LLP 

Case Name: High Point SARL v. Sprint Nextel 2:09-CV-2269 (Kansas 

City, KN) 

Patent No: US5,884,272, US5,884,270, US5,824,082, US5,136,501, 

US5,832,497 

Service Provided: Search for invalidity prior art 

Type of Matter: Patents related to mobile wireless and cellular systems 

Date: 2011 

Network Communications, Internet Protocol, TCP/IP, SMS, 

Streaming Video 

Law Firm: Greenberg Traurig, LLP 

Case Name: Emblaze v. Apple

1:10-cv-5713 -PKC (S.D.N.Y.) 

Patent No: 

US6,389,473, US5,841,432, US5,751,968, US6,138,147, 

US5,610,841, US6,397,230, US5,579,239, US5,928,330, 

US5,987,510, US6,014,694, US6,151,632, US5,864,682, 

US5,659,539 

Service Provided: Investigation of patents, invalidity analysis 

Type of Matter: Computer network protocol for multimedia application 

Date: 2011 

Mobile wireless 

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Law Firm: Ropes & Gray, LLP (New York, NY) 

Case Name: Motorola Mobility, Inc. v. Microsoft 

1:10-cv-24063-MORENO (S.D. FL) 

Patent No: US7,024,214, US7,493,130, US7,725,584, US6,219,694, 

US5,406,643, US7,275,116 

Service Provided: Wrote an invalidity expert report, wrote a response to an 

infringement report. Testified in depositions 7/21/2011 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to wireless and mobile devices 

including smartphones and tablets 

Date: 2011 

Network Communications 

Law Firm: Goldstein & Lipski, PLLC (Houston, TX) 

Case Name: EIT v. YELP! Inc. 

3:10-cv-05623-WHA (N.D. CA) 

Patent No: US5,828,837, US6,249,868, US6,594,765, US6,081,786, 

US6,188,988, US7,298,271, USRE40,683, US8,060,504 

Service Provided: Wrote an expert report 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to Internet and Web technologies 

Date: 2011 

Network Communications 

Law Firm: Hosie Rice, LLP (San Francisco, CA) 

Case Name: Software Research, Inc. v. HP 

3:11-cv-1676-JSW (N.D. CA) 

Patent No: US7,231,606, US7,757,175 

Service Provided: Wrote a declaration 7/15/2011 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to Internet web technologies and ecommerce 

Date: 2011 

Network Communications, Unified Communications 

Law Firm: David N. Hoffman (Brooklyn, NY) and S. Robert Diener 

(Berkeley, CA) 

Case Name: Yipes v. Wyckoff Medical Center 

AAA No. 74494 Y 00849 10 NOLG 

Service Provided: Testified in depositions. Testified in front of an arbitrator 

Type of Matter: Network communications infrastructure 

Date: 2011 

Network communications protocols, TCP/IP, Internet 

Protocols 

Law Firm: Silicon Edge Law Group, LLP 

Case Name: HP v. Alacritech

USPTO Interference No. 105,775 

Patent No. US6,246,683, US6,226,680, US6,697,868 

Service Provided: 

Wrote an expert report, an expert declaration, a response 

expert report, a reply expert report. Testified twice in 

depositions. 

Type of Matter: USPTO Interference: 

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Patents related to network communications protocol 

Date: 2011 

Routing and Switching 

Law Firm: Durie Tangri, LLP (Palo Alto, CA) 

Case Name: Fortinet v. Palo Alto Networks

5:09-cv-00036-RMW (N.D.CA) 

Patent No: US7,519,990, US1,111,111, US7,376,125, US7,177,311, 

US6,930,978 

Service Provided: Wrote an invalidity expert report. Testified in depositions. 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to network communications filtering 

Date: 2010 

Data Communications, Routing switching 

Law Firm: Hausfeld, LLP (San Francisco, CA) 

Case Name: Backweb Technologies v. Microsoft 

4:09-cv-01224-CW (N.D.CA) 

Patent No: 

US6,374,289, US6,493,758, US6,539,429, US5,913,040, 

US6,317,789, US6,539,429, US7,512,943, US7,139,815, 

US7,216,180, US6,920,110, US7,325,068 

Service Provided: Wrote an expert report 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to network communication 

bandwidth allocation 

Date: 2010 

Network Communications, Internet Protocols 

Law Firm: August & Kabat (Los Angeles, CA) 

Case Name:

Linksmart Wireless v. Cisco Systems, T-Mobile 

4:09-cv-01224-CW (N.D.CA), 2:08-cv-00385,2:09-cv00026 

Patent No: US6,779,118 

Service Provided: Wrote an expert report. Testified in a deposition. 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to network communication 

dynamically redirecting and filtering Internet traffic 

Date: 2010 

iPhone email system 

Law Firm: Law Offices of Rod Firoozye (Palo Alto, CA) 

Case Name: Zand v. Armin 

1-09-FL-149015 

Service Provided: Wrote an expert report. Testified in a deposition. Testified 

in court 

Type of Matter: Email origination in iPhone and laptop 

Date: 2010 

Video Teleconferencing, Video streaming 

Law Firm: The Simon Law Firm, P.C. (St. Louis, MO) 

Case Name: Teleconference System v. Tandberg 

3:10-cv-01325-JSW (N.D. CA) 

Patent No: US6,980,526 

Service Provided: Investigated patent and related technologies 

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Type of Matter: Network protocols in the teleconference system 

Date: 2010 

Routing switching 

Law Firm: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett &Dunner, LLP 

Case Name: F5 Networks v. A10 Networks 

2:10-cv-00654-MJP (W.D. WASH) 

Patent No: US7,102,996, US7,395,349, US6,311,278 

Service Provided: Invalidity investigation, a search of prior art 

Type of Matter: Patents related to network communications firewall and 

load balancing 

Date: 2010 

Internet Web technologies 

Law Firm: Niro Scavone Haller & Niro 

Case Name: IP Innovation v. Google 

2:07-cv-503-RRR (E.D.TX) 

Patent No: US5,276,785, US5,675,819 

Service Provided: Wrote an infringement expert report and a rebuttal expert 

report 

Type of Matter: Patent litigation related to Internet and Web technologies 

Date: 2009 

Routing, switching, VoIP and video streaming 

Law Firm: Niro Scavone Haller &Niro 

Case Name: Trace Wilco, Inc. v. Cisco 

5:09-cv-000810-SI 

Patent No: US6,158,011, US6,061,796, US7,325,063, US5,796,948 

Service Provided: Investigated patents and related technologies 

Type of Matter: Network communications protocols 

Date: 2009 

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