Medical Intellectual Property Expert Witnesses

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What is a medical intellectual property expert witness?

Medical intellectual property expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience as physicians and/or in product design. If a project involves a medical device, an expert with a background in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or biomedical engineering may be called in. Forensic accounting and damages experts specializing in health care are in high demand to support cases.

What types of cases require a medical intellectual property expert witness?

The types of legal cases that often require medical intellectual property litigation support experts include:

• copyright infringement
• material characterization
• due diligence
• trade dress
• US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) application filing
• semiconductor product liability
• expert witness testimony in an antitrust matter
• pharmaceutical U.S. patent litigation
• healthcare information technology software design
• IP litigation involving consumer product trade secrets
• lost profits valuation
• tort case economic damages
• medical device design patent infringement
• health care product reasonable royalties

Medical intellectual property expert witness case examples

Example matters that Cahn Litigation Services has placed medical intellectual property litigation support experts for have encompassed:

• arbitration involving a breach of contract dispute
• New York health plan pricing
• Los Angeles medical regulatory authority
• trademark infringement suit in a U.S. district court
• pharmaceutical U.S. patent litigation

What litigation support work might a medical IP expert witness be expected to perform?

Expert witness services could include a prior art search, expert opinion, expert report preparation, and trial testimony. In addition, a law firm may utilize a medical IP expert for pre-litigation consulting services. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the lead attorney may request a testifying expert with prior courtroom experience.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a healthcare industry expert witness around quickly and provide the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Medical Intellectual Property Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Medical Intellectual Property experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Medical Intellectual Property landscape.

• Expert Witness #232441

  This expert holds an MBA and is currently the Managing Partner of highly successful consultancy specializing in intellectual property issues involving patents, trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, trade secrets and know how. This expert has extensive business and consulting experience across a broad range of industries including Health Care and Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, and other Biotechnologies. This expert has been involved in a variety of litigation matters involving patent, trademark, copyright infringement, theft of trade secrets, breach of contract, tax disputes, breach of fiduciary duty, energy, and antitrust matters. With respect to intellectual property, this expert has performed valuations, conducted licensing negotiations and strategic management studies for corporate clients including multinational and international joint ventures, start-up and development stage companies. This expert has also performed research and analysis regarding industry dynamics and IP management practices, portfolio optimization, evaluation of corporate IP strategies, and effects of technology investment, innovation, adoption and transfer on competition. An experienced expert witness, this expert has testified in federal and state court, ITC, AAA, IAA and ICC matters involving a broad range of IP topics including industry structure, licensing and practices, as well as damages related issues including lost profits, reasonable royalties, price erosion, competition and related topics. This expert has also served as a court appointed expert.  

  
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• Expert Witness #261675

  This expert holds a doctorate in Medical Science and Engineering and a master's degree in materials science. This expert is an ASTM member for standards Committees F04, Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices and E58 on Forensic Engineering. This expert has specific experience with cutting instruments, having developed and manufactured prototypes of septum piercing probes. These were hollow tubes with a cutting edge. This expert has performed analysis on many types of cutting instruments and has personally used biopsy punches in skin research including in animal surgeries. This expert specializes in consultation and expert opinions related to product development, intellectual property, risk, and failure analysis. As a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer, this expert is actively involved in design, product development and research. This expert has been a Teaching Associate and has provided consulting services on issues of Biomedical Engineering, Metallurgy, Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering. This expert is a prolific author of journal articles, abstracts, industry publications, books and bulletins, and presents at industry and academic seminars and conferences.

  
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• Expert Witness #263894

  This expert serves as Director and leads the Forensic Investigation group of a highly successful, International consultancy. This expert has conducted complex financial analyses involving lost sales, lost profits, incremental profits, manufacturing and marketing capacity, fixed and variable costs, product line profitability, price erosion, reasonable royalties, unjust enrichment, commercial success, and prejudgment and post-verdict interest for both plaintiffs and defendants. This expert has also served as an expert witness in matters filed in U.S. District Court, state court, and before the American Arbitration Association. Additionally, this expert has lectured on the topic of intellectual property damages at law schools and bar associations.

  This expert’s case experience encompasses a broad array of industries including automotive, aviation, biotechnology, cellular, chemicals, consumer products, energy, financial securities, healthcare, HVAC, information technology, internet, medical products, military, network security, online learning, optical, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, sporting goods, supercomputers, and telecommunications.

  
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• Expert Witness #216342

  This expert has been in demand as a mechanical engineering technical expert and consultant for many years. This expert's primary focus has been in mechanical design (with particular experience in frames, fixtures and steel welded frames as well as machined parts linear bearings and rails, etc.), and has taken this skillset to also excel in the related fields of robotics, automated machinery, control systems, conveyors, medical devices and the intellectual property that accompanies them. This expert has significant experience as an expert in patent litigation and has worked for both plaintiffs and defendants writing reports, giving depositions and providing trial testimony. This expert holds several patents (US and international) and has provided consulting and expert witness services for national law firms and name-brand clients throughout the country.

  
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• Expert Witness #243851

  This expert is a Professional Engineer with an MS in Electrical Engineering. This expert has extensive experience in industrial controls, including developing ladder logic and source code. This expert has designed processing machinery, material handling systems, tooling, industrial controls, data acquisition systems, and safety interlocks for manufacturing lines. This expert has created mechanical drawings, electrical wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, and control logic. This expert has led seminars and continuing education workshops related to designing analog block logic, digital ladder logic for process control applications, human-machine interface (HMI) graphics, wiring, and hardware for distributed control system (DCS) applications. As a Consulting Engineering Manager, this expert managed intellectual property and regulatory compliance matters, and developed, designed, and tested digital and analog electronics, embedded systems, industrial control system logic, and mechanical components for the food, consumer product, medical device, transportation, utility, HVAC, and agricultural equipment industries. As Plant Engineer, this expert designed machine elements, tooling, and automated control systems for food production lines. This expert is the author of numerous technical and programming publications, is a patent holder, and has provided expert witness services for over 15 years, testifying in depositions and in the courtroom.

  
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• Expert Witness #125909

  This medical device engineering expert holds a PhD and has over 35 years of hands-on healthcare technology life-cycle experience supporting forensic engineering investigations and litigation, intellectual property validation, healthcare technology management operations, regulatory compliance, including FDA regulations, and global innovation involving medical devices. This expert provides medical device consulting and helps educate attorneys and courts on healthcare technology-related matters, including complex regulatory requirements, labeling compliance, design and manufacturing, intellectual property processes, device-owner roles and maintenance obligations, interoperability, networking, and device risk management programs.

  This expert can investigate product life stages from design considerations, medical device development, and manufacturing quality control through post-market complaint management and fulfillment of owner responsibilities. This expert provides clear explanations of causation for judges and juries.

  This expert has experience in intellectual property litigation strategy, where product evolution and the strength of a competitor's patent can affect claim validity. This expert has performed novelty searches to help determine the state of patent-claim novelty and develop evidence relevant to alleged infringement. Knowledge of prior art from the perspective of a "person skilled in the art" is additional critical information this expert can address in matters involving medical products.

  
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• Expert Witness #225920

  This trade dress, product design, and human factors engineering expert is a CHFP and leads a human factors and design research firm focused on complex products and services. This expert has over 45 years of experience consulting for leading global clients and holds a BS in Industrial Design from a well-regarded design college and a Master's degree in Ergonomics from a well-regarded university.

  This expert specializes in product design and development methodology, industrial design, design research, usability engineering, usability testing, and consumer decision-making. This expert has category experience across many major product categories, including infant support products, consumer products, medical products, commercial products, and other products.

  This expert has served as a consulting and testifying expert in over 75 major cases involving intellectual property issues, including utility patents, design patents, trade dress, copyright, and trademark issues related to product design and development. This expert has represented major corporate clients at trial and before the ITC, prepared responses to USPTO Office Actions, and has extensive experience in demanding venues and circuits.

  This expert has also held leadership roles in design protection and design science policy organizations.

  
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• Expert Witness #231538

  This medical device expert holds a PhD and, after completing post-doctoral research, served as a lead medical device reviewer in a federal cardiovascular medical device review division.

  Since leaving federal service, this expert has worked as a forensic expert witness and medical device consultant, with additional experience at federal agencies focused on consumer product safety and intellectual property.

  This expert has also served as a faculty member at multiple universities and developed courses in mechanical and biomechanical engineering.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #255942

  This economic damages expert has over 25 years of professional experience in intellectual property, antitrust, technology licensing, and transfer pricing matters. Areas of expertise include assessing and calculating economic damages in the form of lost profits, profit disgorgement, price erosion, reasonable royalties, unjust enrichment, and lost enterprise value in patent, copyright, and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, monopolization, group boycott, and price-fixing matters in both the U.S. and Canada. Additional expertise includes patent portfolio valuation and the assessment of fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (F/RAND) royalties for standard essential patents (SEPs). This expert has also served as an adjunct professor of economics at a university, teaching courses in microeconomics and applied economics, including intellectual property valuation and strategy.

  This expert is a professional economist and testifying expert with over 25 years of experience and has worked on many litigation matters involving economic damages, including breach of contract, lost earnings, intellectual property, and antitrust damages. Experience also includes matters in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, including issues involving regulatory approval processes.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has testified in deposition and at trial in federal court, state court, and arbitration. Professional experience covers a broad range of industries, markets, and product categories in high technology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and industrial products, including computer software and hardware, semiconductors, wireless communication technology, manufacturing processes, surgical equipment, and small molecule drugs.

  
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• Expert Witness #261631

  This medical device expert is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at a public research university, holds a PhD and a doctorate in Medical Science, and is an engineer with extensive experience in medical devices, biomechanics, electronics, heat transfer, and fluid and gas flow. This expert has experience with CPAP intellectual property matters and other medical device matters.

  This expert has worked with both defendants and plaintiffs in medical device matters.

  
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• Expert Witness #281219

  This medical device and patent expert is a medical doctor, holds a J.D., and has practiced intellectual property law for over 10 years. This expert is a partner in an intellectual property law practice, offering concierge-level IP services for medical device and biotech start-up companies, IP portfolio development, and patent/trademark prosecution. This expert also advises a leading IP law firm, offering support and assistance with patent litigation, product clearance (FTO) and planning, licensing/acquisition due diligence, IP portfolio construction, and business opportunity assessment.

  
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• Expert Witness #283254

  This medical/microfluid devices expert is a senior engineering professional in a biomedical engineering and sciences practice, assisting medical device clients through the total product life cycle, including intellectual property review and litigation support. This expert holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering, completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, is a licensed Mechanical Engineer, and holds a NAMSA ISO Series 1 certification for biocompatibility evaluation and risk assessment of medical devices.

  This expert has been retained as an expert witness in medical device and consumer-product liability cases involving design and manufacturing issues, and has provided technical support in numerous products liability and intellectual property cases. This support has included design evaluation, verification and validation support, risk assessments, quality management system audits, marketing strategy, and post-market surveillance activities.

  
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• Expert Witness #286984

  This plumbing systems and HVAC/mechanical systems expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer and United States Patent Agent whose work is performed in support of litigation, intellectual property disputes, product recalls, insurance investigations, and industrial problem solving. This expert has critiqued product infringement issues within the scope of patent protection and has investigated, analyzed, and reconstructed accidents involving vehicles, machines, mechanical systems, and industrial equipment.

  This expert is a member of several professional organizations, including prominent mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, testing standards, accident reconstruction, and heating, refrigeration, and air-conditioning engineering associations.

  HVAC and plumbing systems experience includes failure analysis of commercial and residential climate control systems, boilers, chillers, humidifiers, commercial cooling towers, radiators, underground piping, frozen pipes, valves, meters, and sprinklers. Intellectual property experience includes reviewing patents and subject products, analyzing the design or performance of products within the scope of associated claims, and creating visual aids to demonstrate conclusions. Experience also includes patent drafting and prior art searches. Product examples include home goods, agricultural equipment, industrial equipment, and toys. Mechanical systems experience includes completing analysis on the design, installation, maintenance, and failure of systems in multiple application areas, including transportation, heavy industry, food industry, exercise equipment, medical equipment, agricultural equipment, home appliances, and office equipment. The analysis is performed with the aid of product research, standards research, product testing, and computational modeling. Examples of transportation include heavy and light vehicles, car haulers, motorcycles, motorized carts, steering systems, brake systems, fifth wheels, axles, drivelines, suspensions, restraint systems, lift gates, combustion motors, superchargers, and turbochargers. Examples of heavy industry include forklift trucks, street sweepers, electric and combustion motors, generators, compressors, industrial pumps, industrial fans, conveyors, crushers, shaker screens, spindles, grinders, industrial peelers, chippers, gearboxes, hydraulic systems, dust collectors, ladders, automated doors and gates, heavy gears, roller bearings, slewing rings, seals, machine guarding, mechanical and powered tools, machining centers, industrial racks, industrial chains, roustabouts, man lifts, elevators, cold forming equipment, forging equipment, safety devices, and safety clothing. Examples of the food industry include can seamers, industrial water purifiers, mixers, and processing equipment. Examples of exercise equipment include stability balls and weightlifting equipment.

  
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• Expert Witness #293269

  This electronic medical records expert holds an M.D. and Ph.D. and is a seasoned health IT professional with over 30 years of research and development experience in industry. This expert has a track record of innovation in product-development roles, as well as consulting experience with health IT firms, healthcare provider organizations, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and litigators in intellectual property and medical malpractice cases. This expert is a published author, experienced speaker, and adjunct faculty member at a prestigious medical school.

  This expert has worked professionally to design and build electronic health record systems for over 30 years, including both inpatient and outpatient systems. Most recently, this expert advised a health IT company for several years on the design of its system to comply with regulatory requirements and ensure patient safety. This expert is very familiar with federal EHR-certification requirements and has consulted to several EHR vendors with respect to these regulations. This expert has reviewed audit logs of several EHR systems in the context of medical malpractice cases and is skilled in interpreting these sources of evidence. This expert is also generally familiar with best practices for medical record keeping, whether electronic or paper based, although the statutes and regulations governing these practices vary somewhat from state to state.

  This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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