Coatings Expert Witnesses
What is a coatings expert witness?
Coatings expert witness candidates typically have an advanced degree and experience and expertise in materials science, polymer science, and/or chemical engineering. The selected expert could be a member of an industry organization such as the American Coatings Association (ACA), the World Paint & Coatings Industry Association (WPCIA), and/or the World Coatings Council (WCC). A coatings expert witness must have a deep understanding not only of the target technology, but also of the market and competitive landscape.
What types of cases require a coatings expert witness?
A coatings expert witness often provides his or her expertise in intellectual property matters, such as a patent infringement litigation or a trade secret dispute. A coatings scientist could also be called in on a product liability case or an accident investigation.
Coatings expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation Services has been approached by numerous attorney clients to locate expert witnesses, on behalf of either the plaintiff or defendant, that can support coatings technology matters. Exemplar cases include:
- a coating failure,
- laboratory testing,
- premature failure of a coating substance,
- corrosion,
- chemical exposure, or
- protective coating patents.
What litigation support work might a coatings expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a coating specialist could include authoring expert reports, failure analyses, deposition testimony, providing expert opinions, and courtroom testimony. In addition, clients may seek a paint industry expert for pre-litigation consulting services. It is also essential that an expert witness possess the ability to provide expert testimony in such a manner that a jury and judge can understand the forensic evidence. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a coatings specialist with prior expert witness testimony experience.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a coatings expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Coatings 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 Coatings experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Coatings landscape.
Expert Witness #264745
This expert is a professor at a College of Pharmacy, is a registered pharmacist, and has industry experience. This expert is widely published in the area of coatings and pharmaceutical product evaluation.
This expert holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Pharmaceutics, an M.S. in Pharmaceutical Technology, and a B.S. in Pharmacy. An experienced expert witness and scientific consultant, this expert has supported the FTC and FDA as well as industry leaders, and is a named inventor on four patents/applications.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #210447
This expert has been working with enzymes, including digestive ones, for many years. This expert has extensive experience, both research and litigation support, in drug delivery, including oral administration using tablets and capsules. This experience understands various coatings, such as enteric and modified-release ones.
This expert has started six pharmaceutical companies and has been a scientific advisor, consultant, and/or director for numerous pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies, as well as an expert witness in many pharmaceutical patent infringement litigations. This expert has authored numerous scientific papers and 32 issued U.S. patents, given a plethora of invited lectures, and is a member of over a dozen scientific journal editorial boards. This expert holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Enzymology and an M.S. in Chemistry.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #235343
This expert has many years of experience as an R&D researcher and Failure Analyst with a chemical company, culminating as Research Fellow and as Chief Metallurgist. This expert's focus is in materials processing, design, and process control in manufacturing and industry. This expert's areas of expertise include ceramics, metal alloys, polymers, coatings, manufacturing process and litigation support.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #256789
This expert is a world-renowned expert in the field of magnetic media, its materials and design. This expert is the founder, President and CEO of companies highly regarded for their research and work in tribology, mechanical testing and nano-indenting expertise and product lines. Each was acquired by a leader in the global manufacturing of high-end analytical instruments. This expert obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering.
In the area of magnetic media, this expert has:
- authored at least eight papers on magnetic recording- a patent on particle detection.- organized/chaired scientific meetings/conferences on particle nano-testing- worked on development and testing of magnetic tape drivesThis expert has significant prior patent litigation experience having written reports, been deposed and testified.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #237652
This expert’s long career has involved high tech product development, intellectual property (IP) issues, projection displays, lens and optical system design, thin film optical filters, non-imaging optics, LCD flat panel displays and modules, backlighting of flat panel displays, light emitting diode (LED) product development, injection molding, chip-on-board development, and High Definition Television (HDTV) systems.
This expert’s degree is in physics and the many years of industrial experience has always involved Thin Film Coatings including:
Chalcogenide (including Selenium) based thin films, both evaporated and sputtered
Metal films including Aluminum, Moly, Titanium and Tungsten alloys
Tetrahedral base alloys including a-silicon, poly-silicon, germanium, and carbon
and
Various oxide and nitride alloy films such as SiO2, Si3N4, TiO2, Ta2O5, ZrO2 and others
This expert has used these thin films in a variety of devices including standard semiconductor devices, photovoltaic devices, thin film transistor (TFT) arrays, flat panel displays, and optical interference film stacks. This expert is very familiar with unit process development and process integration, has both managerial and personal hands-on, in-depth, experience in all of the Material Science and Product Development areas listed above. Several of this expert’s published papers and issued patents are on these subjects. In addition, this expert has assembled and used a wide variety of thin film deposition systems, including thermal evaporators, e- beam evaporators, ion-assisted e-beam evaporators, all types of sputtering systems and PDCVD systems.
Further, this expert is quite familiar with the dpiX llc TFT flat panel x-ray detectors.
This expert is a seasoned expert witness, has testified in District Court and before the ITC numerous times, written many expert reports in patent lawsuits, and has been deposed several times. This expert also has extensive experience in IPRs, EPRs and PGRs.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #257934
This expert's multidisciplinary expertise and many years of broad technical experience cross-cuts fields of electrical engineering, optics, materials engineering, and physical sciences. From an electrical engineering perspective, this expert has extensive experience in solar cells, light-emitting diodes and displays, capacitors, memories, transistors, sensors, and circuits. This expert's materials background includes organic and inorganic semiconductors, metals, nanomaterials, biomaterials, thin-films, and material interfaces. This expert specializes in device physics, materials and thin-film processing, device fabrication, improving functional performance, analyzing failures, and understanding process-structure-property-performance relationships across material, component, device, and system levels. This expert's characterization tool skill-set includes a wide range of electrical, optical, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques.
Prior to becoming a consultant, this expert was a university professor as head of the Nano Architectonics and Organic Electronics Laboratory, and also worked a National Laboratory. During this period, this expert developed new materials processing approaches and optical architectures to improve efficiency of thin-film solar cells. This expert's photovoltaic material expertise includes conjugated polymers/molecules, cadmium telluride, perovskite, and silicon material systems. This expert also made multiple contributions in the area of defect characterization in semiconductor thin-films. Other key works include projects on titania based memory devices, optical and bio(chemical) sensors, organic thin-film transistors, organic light-emitting displays, and photonic components such as waveguides, anti-reflection coatings, transparent electrodes, and plasmonic structures. For characterization purposes, this expert has extensively utilized a wide range of electrical, optical, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques. During doctoral studies, this expert worked with materials such as organic semiconductors, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, nanotemplates, and biomolecules on developing functional hybrids and embodiments pertinent to consumer electronics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.
This expert has assisted clients in developing metrology solutions for opto-electronic thin-films, investigating performance bottlenecks in solar cells, and characterizing new synthetic materials for consumer electronic device applications. This expert has also consulted for edtech clients and has experience teaching courses on electric circuits, semiconductor materials and devices, flexible electronics, and energy systems. This expert has published 50 peer-reviewed research articles in top international journals and presented work in major international conferences. This expert has received several awards and honors, including the nationally prestigious US National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Most of this expert's consulting work is non-litigation failure and design, however, this expert is currently working as the testifying expert on an unrelated solar matter. This expert has written expert reports.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #210429
This antimicrobial expert holds a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering and serves in a senior biological sciences role focused on strategic alliances and translation at a well-regarded technical institute. This expert received a B.A. degree in Biochemistry and Chemistry from a well-regarded university and a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from a prestigious technical university. This expert has held chemical engineering faculty appointments at multiple well-regarded universities, including service in a leadership role at a biocatalysis and bioprocessing center, and holds joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Biology.
This expert's research group includes chemical engineers, bioengineers, materials scientists, biologists, chemists, and microbiologists focused on gaining a quantitative understanding of biological principles and applying them to advance bioengineering, nanobiotechnology, drug discovery, and biomanufacturing. This expert has received numerous awards from prominent scientific and engineering organizations and has been elected as a Fellow of multiple well-regarded professional associations in chemistry, science, and biomedical engineering. This expert serves on scientific advisory boards for several biotechnology companies and venture capital firms and has co-founded several companies in biotechnology and related technical fields. This expert has published over 330 papers and is an inventor or co-inventor on over 35 patents and patent applications.
This expert has expertise in antimicrobial coatings, paints, films, and related technologies. Much of this expert's work involves enzyme-containing coatings, including embedding enzymes into paints and coatings. These enzymes include cell-lytic enzymes that target specific bacteria and reactive enzymes that generate antimicrobial agents with antibacterial and antiviral activity. The relevant enzyme systems include perhydrolases that generate peracetic acid, as well as laccases and peroxidases that generate halogenated antimicrobial agents and reactive oxygen species. This expert has compared enzymatic methods for generating antimicrobial coatings with non-enzymatic methods, including antimicrobial chemicals such as cationic surfactants and small-molecule antimicrobials. This expert also has expertise in microbiology and analysis of antimicrobial activity, including microbial killing and prevention of biofilm formation.
This expert is experienced as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #256620
This food packaging and safety expert holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and an M.Sc. in Packaging Science from well-regarded universities and is a faculty member in a university food packaging department. This expert has worked as a food scientist for a federal agriculture agency in food processing and packaging and then continued in academia.
This expert has over 10 years of experience serving as an expert witness on issues related to food packaging and processing, food safety, shelf life, and related topics. Academic and professional training has included study of food science, environmental toxicology, classes of food toxins, and how food toxins affect the human body.
This expert has worked in food packaging and labeling divisions for a federal food and drug regulator, handling assignments involving food contact materials, food safety, product labeling, and misbranding. This expert teaches courses in food regulations and food packaging, including topics such as labeling, additives, label claims, food contact materials, regulatory petitions, consumer protection regulation, food packaging laws and regulations, material science, and product shelf life.
Research activities in this expert's laboratory include the development and characterization of various types of packaging polymeric materials, including antimicrobial, antioxidant, and corrosion-resistant coatings for plastic and metal packages. Current research includes antimicrobial coatings for surfaces such as food preparation tables, countertops, door handles, and computer keyboards.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #281629
In addition to expertise as a chemist (BA in chemistry) and a chemical engineer (MSChE and PhD), this expert was involved in day-to-day activities in the development of toner and OPC (optical photoconductors) drums making "after-market" products for Canon, Ricoh, Sharp, Fuji Xerox, Xerox and Lexmark (among others). This expert's duties included all aspects of developing toner and all OPC and peripherals - including testing. This expert was involved in both OPC and dry toner development, and also wrote the patent applications for new toner products.
This expert was responsible for performing quality assurance on all copiers and laser printers including all the aftermarket components. This included daily inspection and running of tens of thousands of copies of patterns which had to be analyzed for all aspects of reproducibility for comparison with the original templates. In addition, this expert has over 35 years of experience with all types of polymer-based spray, dip, spin, and powdered coatings from preparing and working with those in many technology areas including semi-conductor microlithography, wire and cable including fiber optics, electrophotography, molded plastic parts for electronics, games, toys, etc., and for many adhesive coatings. This expert has over 20 years as an expert witness, is a registered patent agent and has filed and prosecuted over 500 US and international applications.
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Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #285383
This structural engineering expert is a licensed P.E. in a number of southeastern states and has over 15 years of experience in material science, including failure analysis of concrete and coatings, along with over 10 years of experience in civil engineering, including site design and water intrusion in concrete and precast concrete structures. This expert performs scientific investigations and root cause analyses of failed components, structures, and systems. Common issues for analysis include determining contributions toward failure from design, manufacturing methods and material processes, use conditions, maintenance, or application.
This structural engineering expert is a licensed PE in over 5 states, including southeastern states, and is an experienced structural engineer with more than 25 years of experience in building failure, water infiltration testing, structural systems, and construction defects. This expert has testified on structural cases and concrete design, as well as performed forensic analysis of structural failures, water intrusion, and other construction-related issues.
Both structural engineering experts are experienced expert witnesses and litigation consultants.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #286170
This chemistry and coatings expert holds a PhD in Chemistry from a prestigious university and has worked in the chemical industry for over 30 years.
This expert has over 30 years of experience in the plastics and adhesives industry and has extensive knowledge of the development, manufacture, and testing of coated products and multilayer and multicolor composites, many with multiple layers having excellent adhesion and some with reduced or low adhesion by design. Some of these structures were prepared with release layers having release characteristics tuned to the requirements of the application.
This expert's experience includes the development and manufacture of ballistic-resistant plastic sheet. This expert also has extensive expert witness experience, including over 10 cases involving coatings, over 10 inter partes reviews and post-grant reviews, and a number of patent infringement and non-infringement cases.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #287915
This materials engineering and polymer science expert holds a Ph.D. and specializes in the design, manufacture, and performance of polymer-based systems used in building and construction, automotive, industrial coating, medical, electronic, and consumer product industries. Areas of expertise include surface analysis, polymer rheology, and chemical, thermal, and mechanical analysis of coatings, adhesives, sealants, fibers, non-wovens, rubbers, elastomers, thermoplastics, thermosets, gels, and novel polymer materials.
This expert has performed numerous project evaluations involving design, performance testing, and failure analysis of polymeric systems used in automotive environments and consumer products, including evaluations of such materials in patent infringement and trade secret disputes. This expert also has direct product development experience using polymer processing techniques such as extrusion and fiber spinning.
Beyond commodity polymers, this expert has research experience defining the structure-property relationships of polymer systems, including block copolymers, polymeric surfactants, polymer blends, polymer brushes, confined films, hydrogels, and hierarchical structures.
This expert has direct experience conducting offset lithography in both academic and industrial settings, including work in a microfabrication facility. Broader expertise includes the analysis, characterization, and performance of surfaces and surface coatings, including extensive familiarity with tools such as AFM used to characterize those properties.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #290644
This footwear expert is a consultant with over 30 years of consumer footwear product design and development experience, including authoring work on footwear. This expert has worked on the design and development of thousands of shoes, including design, materials, and manufacturing considerations for outsoles used in sneakers and other footwear.
This expert has expertise in footwear slip resistance in wet and dry conditions, as well as other factors contributing to how slippery a shoe may be, including materials, tread patterns, laminated materials or coatings, and additional shoe characteristics that may contribute to a fall. Across thousands of shoes, this expert has evaluated factors relating to how slippery or grippy shoe soles were, along with other elements affecting shoe stability, and selected and revised design solutions based on cost, aesthetic, and performance considerations.
This expert has assisted in litigation matters and has deposition experience.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #291877
This biochemistry expert holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry and is a research professor in a university chemistry and biochemistry department, with significant research accomplishments in chemistry, enzymology, and the microbiology of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis, as well as the chemistry of antibiotics, including research relevant to antimicrobial surfaces. This expert completed postdoctoral training at a prestigious university and previously served as an Associate Professor of Chemistry at a major research university.
This expert is an Organic Chemist and patent co-inventor with litigation experience, an extensive publication record concerning the chemistry of clinical antibacterials, and knowledge of antimicrobial coatings and antiseptic chemistry.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #297468
This chemical coatings expert holds a PhD and has opined on multiple pipe and tank coating failures and defects over the years, both while serving large international industries and as an expert witness for international consulting firms. This expert has designed coating specifications for residential and commercial facilities, acid mine leachates, dewatering facilities, and various tanks used in plants, including DI water, wastewater, phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, and molten sulfur tanks.
This expert has performed multiple failure analyses of internal and external pipe coatings and tank coatings used in desalination, wastewater, industrial, and petrochemical facilities, including facilities in northern climates involving corrosion under insulation and cold wall effects. This expert has been retained to discuss coatings and opine on coating failures in marine, wastewater, composting, and industrial facilities.
This expert has contributed to patented coatings technologies related to fuel cells, batteries, mainline pipe coatings, and other applications, and has taught polymer science and organic chemistry at the college level.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #298916
This chemical coatings expert holds a PhD, is a certified Cathodic Protection Technician (CP2), and has a strong understanding of corrosion and corrosion protection related to ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
This expert has worked on multiple corrosion-related failures over the years. This expert has supported testifying experts while attending inspections, participating in destructive examinations, and preparing opinions related to corrosion and materials degradation.
This expert's background is well suited to understanding coating-related issues and developing testing protocols to perform root cause failure analysis of coating failures and corrosion issues.
Start Coatings Expert SearchExpert Witness #302193
This materials science expert holds a Ph.D. and specializes in material structure, properties, and processing, with work emphasizing thermoplastics, thermosets, blends, composites, and multicomponent formulations. This expert has extensive experience with manufacturing, product development, product design, and failure analysis; systems investigated include plastics, coatings, paints, adhesives, rubbers, foams, fibers, suspensions, emulsions, and pastes. Published work includes extensive scholarship on polymer processing and structure relationships, compounding and mixing in multiphase polymer systems, and structure and morphology development during polymer processing. This expert is the inventor on over 10 U.S. patents, author of more than 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals, author of over 40 conference proceedings, and has presented more than 50 seminars to industry and government organizations.
This expert has conducted failure analysis investigations and developed product designs in a broad range of applications, including automotive components, consumer products, medical devices, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, coatings, prints, construction materials, and packaging. Numerous material systems have been assessed relative to long-term stability, aging, degradation, and chemistry.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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