LED Expert Witnesses
LED expert witness candidates typically have advanced degrees and areas of expertise in electrical engineering, solid state physics, mechanical engineering, and/or optics. The chosen expert may be a licensed professional engineer.
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source that emits light when conducting current. Applications include electronic displays, indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures, machine vision, and data communications.
What types of legal cases call for an LED lighting expert witness?
Often, matters requiring LED technology expert witness services involve intellectual property, including US patent infringement litigation, or trade secrets disputes. A forensic engineering expert can reverse engineer components to prove (or disprove) intellectual property infringement or theft. Litigation support by an LED expert witness could include failure analysis, deposition testimony, and expert witness testimony in the courtroom. In addition, a law firm may seek an LED lighting industry expert for pre-litigation consulting work.
Exemplary cases have involved:
- automotive LED technology,
- ADA and OSHA regulations,
- human factors,
- fire origin,
- LED lighting design for parking lots,
- New York building codes related to lighting systems,
- personal injury encompassing premises liability solid state lighting,
- vehicle accident reconstruction,
- liquid crystal displays (LCD), and
- street lighting luminaires.
Cahn Litigation Services has the years of experience required to the search for an LED lighting expert around quickly.
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LED Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those LED experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the LED landscape.
Expert Witness #266379
This expert has a background in electronics, software, and systems design. This expert’s career journey includes designing lab instrumentation, medical devices, smart battery systems, ultrasonic welding and cleaning, and semiconductors. This expert’s engineering consultancy worked in multiple industries with varied applications: including LED lighting, sensors and motor control, medical devices and consumer devices. Every job change has been an industry change: from lab instrumentation to medical devices, from ultrasonic plastics welding to smart batteries, from sensor design to semiconductors. This expert’s varied experiences and interests give a unique and valuable perspective on problem solving both technically and in business. This expert has spent most of a career in OEM product development, focused on embedded systems, experiencing the role of engineering in many different markets: from consumer electronics to industrial controls, from medical products to LED lighting, and much more. This expert is a named engineer on 5 patents and has done his masters work in Computer Science, holds a Six Sigma Black Belt, and is a certified Scrum Master.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #210252
This medical device patent expert holds a PhD and has held scientific and leadership roles in large pharmaceutical companies, including Senior Scientist and Director roles in the cardiovascular field for over 10 years. This expert was involved in the development of an FDA-approved renal vasodilator and led in vivo discovery work for an FDA-approved anti-platelet agent.
This expert served multiple terms as a Special Government Employee Advisor to a Cardio/Renal CDER Division of FDA. After work in large pharmaceutical companies, this expert became a serial entrepreneur and has led numerous startup drug and medical device development efforts for over 20 years.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #250548
This product design expert is a PE and Mechanical Engineer with expertise in product design and development, patent infringement, and expert testimony.
This expert has worked with, designed, invented, and aided in the manufacturing of medical and consumer products for many years. This expert has been involved in intellectual property, design patent, product liability, class action, and personal injury matters, and has decades of design experience. This expert has substantial familiarity with LED products and has designed LED systems for landscape lighting, signaling devices, and other applications.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #264317
This robotic material handling expert holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Mechanical Engineering, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, and a PE credential, and has led several major automated robotic material handling and warehouse application development projects.
This expert was the lead engineer on a number of government contracts involving the development and testing of shipboard material handling systems. These successful development projects led to participation in dozens of U.S. and international patents related to cutting-edge robotic material handling technology, as well as follow-on development to commercialize the technology.
This expert has worked in the Forensic Engineering field for over 25 years and has testified as an expert in hundreds of litigation cases. This expert has significant patent litigation experience, including serving as a subject matter expert in a patent dispute involving major international material handling companies.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #267103
This algorithmic curation expert holds a PhD and is a professor at a well-regarded university, with over 25 years of work in recommendation systems and personalized search.
An early paper by this expert demonstrated that users' preferences and interests can be inferred from their web browsing behavior, and it has received over 500 citations. This expert subsequently led the development of one of the earliest web-based recommendation systems, described in a later publication on accurate and scalable web-based recommendation technology.
This expert's later work extended personalization to search by incorporating users' geographic context, resulting in over 100 publications and several patents in personalized and location-aware search. This expert also led the development of a research prototype for geospatial and temporal customized search funded by multiple federal agencies and major technology companies, and founded a startup focused on spatiotemporal search personalization that was later acquired.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #267440
This lighting R&D expert serves as a consulting Senior Technical Advisor to a federal energy department lighting R&D program through an internationally renowned consulting business. In this capacity, this expert manages R&D strategy, monitors funded R&D efforts, and evaluates new LED technologies and application understanding. This expert has worked with lighting R&D programs for over 10 years and with a federal public lands agency to develop lighting practices that preserve the natural ecosystem. This expert has evaluated numerous thermal management and integration concepts and related technologies for investors. As a consultant, this expert has designed and developed thermal management concepts for LED lighting, consulted on LED package-level thermal management concepts, and developed high-power LED lighting products that require advanced thermal management.
This expert holds a PhD in Materials Science, with thesis research on advanced LED device design and fabrication. This expert has served several times as an expert witness in LED lighting-related matters and has testifying experience involving LED lighting product performance, LED lighting and package patents, LED lighting reliability, and measurement and verification of installed lighting products.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #267450
This optoelectronics expert holds Ph.D. and P.E. credentials and has extensive experience with optoelectronic devices, including OLEDs, LEDs, lasers, and optical sensors.
Research topics include optoelectronic materials, optical cavity design, flexible displays, encapsulation, TFTs, and device reliability. This expert has multiple patents relating to LEDs and has testified in multiple semiconductor litigation matters involving LED manufacturing, non-volatile memory, LED lamps, and flat panel displays.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #280994
This fire department expert spent over 20 years with a major city fire department, climbing to the rank of Fire Captain. In that capacity, this expert led a team of fire investigators, oversaw field delivery of EMS, and currently works as a fire department consultant who has testified as an expert witness in over 100 trials.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #283693
This video processing/compression expert is a university professor with over 25 years of experience in image/video processing and compression.
This expert developed an early very low bit rate color video codec for video telephony at a major telecommunications research laboratory and subsequently established and led an R&D group focused on image/video processing and coding. Work in the field has resulted in over 250 refereed publications in high-impact venues and issued patents, and has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including election as an IEEE Fellow.
This expert has been retained as an expert consultant for IP-related matters in these areas and has served as an expert delegate to an international standards committee focused on coding of audio, picture, multimedia, and hypermedia information, including participation in JPEG/MPEG standardization activities.
This expert has directed a university R&D laboratory focused on image, video, and usability, supervising the research and development work of over 45 graduate students as main advisor and directing numerous funded projects that led to innovative technologies and successful technology transfer with industry partners in image/video processing and compression. This expert has been awarded over 5 patents in image and video processing, compression, and transmission.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #286176
This chemistry, materials, and injection molding expert is a prestigious university-educated PhD chemist with over 30 years of experience in the chemical industry, over 10 personal US patents, and over 25 additional patents granted to groups this expert led. This expert led research and development initiatives internationally, serving in scientific, global research leadership, and senior technology executive roles for major chemical companies. This expert has strong expertise in research leadership and management, new business development, business and commercialization strategy, litigation research, and innovation involving polymers, plastics, materials, and adhesives.
This expert spent over 30 years in the plastics industry performing and supervising the development of new and improved plastics, many of which were targeted for injection molding applications. Injection molding was used to prepare many test samples. This expert also oversaw a technical support group that worked with customers to troubleshoot injection mold designs and processes for applications including automotive lighting and trim, medical parts, and consumer goods.
This expert has experience with functional behavior issues involving polymer parts, including factors such as modulus and strength, ductile or brittle failure behavior, and notch sensitivity.
As a technical expert, this expert has worked with attorneys to secure numerous patents and to reach favorable resolutions in high-value litigation. This expert also has experience in scale-up, manufacturing, and marketing, served in a board role for a prominent industry association, and served as a judge for industry innovation awards.
As a senior scientist and leader of multiple R&D groups, this expert led programs for the development and commercialization of numerous new products with cumulative sales exceeding two billion dollars. These products have widespread use in automotive, aerospace, medical, construction, packaging, display, and optical applications.
This expert's experience includes acrylics, PMMA, polycarbonate, polyester, polyurethane, composites, aerosols, adhesives, thermoplastics, polymer degradation, product liability, and product failure. This expert provides consulting and expert witness services in polymers, plastics, materials, and adhesives.
This expert also has extensive experience as an expert witness, including matters involving coatings, inter partes reviews, post-grant reviews, and patent infringement and non-infringement issues.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #292164
This traffic engineering expert is a P.E., PTOE, and RSP1 with over 30 years of experience in traffic engineering, including roles in both the private and public sectors. This expert has focused on traffic safety throughout this expert's career, has been trained in and led many Road Safety Assessments, and earlier in this expert's career led a team to identify and address high-crash intersections and roadway segments.
This expert is certified as a Level 1 Road Safety Professional by a professional certification board and is a member of a municipal Vision Zero advisory committee. The committee provides recommendations to city staff and elected officials on traffic safety issues and on implementation of a Road Safety Action Plan.
This expert is well versed in all components of traffic engineering, including traffic flow theory and traffic operational evaluations. This expert has expertise involving local streets, including managing a municipal traffic calming program and assisting other agencies with developing traffic calming programs as a traffic engineering consultant. This expert has served as an expert witness for a number of years while remaining actively engaged in conventional traffic engineering consulting work.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #295639
This financial services industry expert has worked extensively in management, trading, research, and technology.
This expert led a corporate trust business that applied for and obtained CUSIPs for securities issued on behalf of clients, served as lead developer on numerous automated trading and risk management systems for large financial institutions that involved integration with security masters, and led efforts to clean and reengineer a major Wall Street security master.
This expert also led numerous post-merger integration and back-office reengineering projects involving significant work with security masters, developed internal security ID protocols for a number of large financial institutions, and was among the early developers of automated trading systems using real-time market data.
This expert served in a senior fixed income research role requiring substantial use of market data, provided consulting services to numerous market data vendors, and has been engaged to produce an academic textbook regarding the operations of global financial institutions.
This expert also has significant testifying experience.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #300175
This optoelectronics expert holds a PhD and has uncommon industry experience designing LED semiconductor structures, developing MOCVD processes to produce those structures, conducting optical design at both the chip and package levels, and evaluating reliability considerations at both the chip and package levels.
This expert's background in Chemical Engineering is well suited to addressing reaction kinetics, diffusion, and thermodynamic driving forces related to degradation. Designing contact structures with consistent placement is a standard part of photolithographic mask design, and this expert has designed numerous LED chips that were transitioned into manufacturing.
This expert's career has largely involved teaching and technical education. This expert began working in the LED industry around the time high-brightness LEDs were developed and has been directly involved in transitioning LED technology into numerous market niches, including educating individuals and companies about the intricacies of LED technology. This expert has over 20 years of experience as an expert witness.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #304012
This mobile device management and digital signage expert has a career spanning over 30 years in digital media and technology, with directly relevant experience as a senior executive and co-founder of a digital signage content management and advertising technology platform company built from startup through merger and liquidity event.
This expert built and led the development of a content management platform that managed thousands of digital signage displays deployed in retail, hospitality, and corporate environments nationwide. Hands-on experience includes specifying and procuring commercial-grade displays for diverse lighting environments, including retail settings with fluorescent and LED lighting where brightness specifications, including nit ratings, are critical to visibility and performance.
This expert led the development of mobile device management and remote monitoring capabilities, enabling real-time content delivery, remote diagnostics, firmware updates, and maintenance scheduling across large distributed screen networks. This expert also oversaw managed services operations responsible for field support, service call triage, and display lifecycle management.
This experience gives this expert direct technical and operational insight into display brightness specification compliance and the impact of third-party MDM services on a network operator's ability to manage and fulfill customer commitments.
Start LED Expert SearchExpert Witness #1210630
This LED technologies and patent infringement expert began a career as a materials scientist and held responsible positions at major telecommunications, research, technology, semiconductor, and science organizations.
For over 20 years, this expert has worked full time as a patent licensing and litigation consultant and subject matter expert, and has served as a testifying expert in multiple lawsuits, including an ITC patent infringement case involving reverse engineering and technical product testing services, an expert report based on empirical findings, and deposition testimony.
Additional litigation work has included failure analyses on sample products, expert report preparation, deposition testimony, and jury testimony in an LED lighting product liability case.
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