Medical Patent Expert Witnesses
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What is a medical patent expert witness?
Medical patent 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. Damages experts specializing in health care are in high demand to support cases. Expert witnesses must be prepared to withstand the scrutiny of a cross-examination.
What types of cases require a medical patent expert witness?
The types of cases requiring a medical patent expert could include matters such as:
- therapeutics pricing
- patent damages
- medical product personal injury
- robotics product liability
- US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval
- intellectual property litigation involving consumer product trade secrets
- lost profits valuation
- medical device design patent infringement
Medical patent expert witness case examples
Example matters that Cahn Litigation Services has placed medical patent litigation support experts for have encompassed:
- expert witness testimony in an antitrust matter
- trademark infringement suit in a U.S. district court
- U.S. patent litigation involving plastics composition
- healthcare information technology software patent invalidity challenge
What litigation support work might a medical patent expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services could include a prior art search, expert report preparation, and deposition and trial testimony. In addition, a law firm may utilize a medical device industry expert for pre-litigation consulting services.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a medical expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Medical Patent 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 Medical Patent experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Medical Patent landscape.
Expert Witness #234821
This expert has many years of orthopedic industry experience, including product development and surgeon education. The focus of this expert's residency was Spine Surgery & Orthopaedics, and this expert is a co-inventor of 20 orthopedic implants patents, including spine fixation systems.
At an orthopedic clinic, this expert collaborated with an institute on research and design of spinal fusion devices and other medical and engineering technologies. This expert has testified on multiple occasions, and has reviewed thousands of patents in support of patent infringement and patent acquisition. This expert is an M.D. with highest commendations.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #262782
For many years this expert has focused on medical implant devices, and is a named inventor on many patents, including 28 issued US patents in the field of spinal hardware. This expert has represented a medical company's spine division as a technical witness in patent litigation, and has given numerous patent-related depositions.
Currently, this expert is President/Founder of a medical device company focused on providing orthopedic implants. Prior to this, this expert was CEO/Founder of a medical device company that developed innovative spinal implants. This expert is a member of the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery, Society for Biomaterials, and ASTM International. This expert holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #261666
This expert is the principal owner of a biomechanical engineering company providing design and development of medical devices. With many years' experience in the medical devices industry, this expert also serves as a technical and testifying expert in patent and products matters involving medical devices, and biomechanical issues. This expert has specific experience with surgical cutting tools. As Vice President of Product Development, and as Mechanical Engineer for medical device companies, this expert provided both design and development of mechanical tools used in surgical procedures. This expert holds a Master's in Mechanical Engineering and is a Professional Engineer; this expert can speak with authority on issues of machine tolerances and dimensional variances in the manufacturing process. This expert holds over a dozen US patents in the orthopedic medical device field, has twenty publications and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #216672
This expert is an electrical engineer with many years of experience as a testifying and consulting expert. This expert's background specific to programmable controllers began with early TV remote controls. This expert's experience includes analysis and programming of complex remotes that implement activities beginning with a Universal 850 and several generations of remotes. This Founder of a successful consulting firm providing advisement in the areas of system design and litigation support in patent cases, this expert served as an expert witness in a case involving the control of medical devices. This expert's design engineering experience includes, in addition to processor design, the design of computer peripheral controllers including communications control for medical apparatus, as well as units containing communications ports for IR and wired serial data. This expert is well versed in all forms of control systems, including Bluetooth and protocols for handshaking and communication, embedded systems and the related software. With a general background in computer communications, peripheral controllers and central processors, this expert has a particularly deep background in assisting counsel with claim construction, as well as providing deposition and trial testimony. This expert has worked on more than one hundred patent matters, having written reports, provided deposition testimony and has been to trial in over twenty, for and against the patent holder. These cases include embedded control of mechanisms and processes including medical equipment control. In addition to these hardware centered assignments, this expert has worked on software in the same embedded systems noted above, device drivers for computer peripherals and application programs including transaction processing systems.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #261650
This expert has a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering, and another in Engineering Management. This expert currently leads a medical device design and consulting firm and provides services to corporations and law firms as a manufacturing consultant and expert witness. Before founding this company, this expert supervised Manufacturing and Research and Development for a medical device manufacturer and had responsibility for Product Development at another. This expert is well acquainted with manufacturing and deviation tolerances, and other characteristics of machining and the manufacturing process. This expert boasts over 60 medical device (US) patents. This expert is well-published and serves as an adjunct professor at a University. As an expert witness this expert has provided services in patent infringement litigations, IPR post-grant proceedings and an array of products and injury matters involving medical devices. This expert has specific experience in validity, infringement claim construction and Markman hearings.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #211579
This expert has spent many years in the medical device marketplace combined with twenty years in diverse areas of wireless and mobility technologies. This expert's core expertise is from software development and device integration to include all phases of wireless from licensed and unlicensed both in the indoor and outdoor space. This domain knowledge space has been gained with Fortune 50 and international companies and has included both hands on design, implementation, and solution deployments on a global level. As President of a global-reach healthcare, medical device, and wireless engineering consultancy, this expert specializes in medical device mobility and wireless connectivity communications. This expert has worked on several projects involving BTLE (4.0), and has also worked with ANT on design projects and FDA 510(k) approval. This expert is very familiar with authentication schemas. Most of this expert's work regarding BTLE has been with the connectivity of medical devices to smart devices and the cloud. This expert has also been involved with legal and patent work surrounding these technologies. Highly skilled at designing, implementing and supporting wireless enterprise and critical mobility applications, this expert has developed projects that range from multi-floor environments, outdoor campus environments, and co-existence strategies with various wireless standards. This includes the ability to develop the capability to have a complex ecosystem of different business and clinical applications with the right security and performance requirements. This was developed through this expert's work with a major patient monitoring company, which laid the foundation for the first patient monitoring system that provided mission-critical data in a shared wired and wireless VLAN design.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #246726
This expert holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and served as Senior Scientist and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff for a large medical device manufacturer. This Imaging and Computer Vision expert specializes in Medical Imaging and Image Guided Radiation Therapy. This expert was responsible for investigational and translational innovations in the field of Imaging and Computer Vision. Contributions include Megavoltage Cone Beam CT, Image Guided Radiation Therapy, Advance radiotherapy treatment techniques, novel imaging devices and methods for radiotherapy, 3D Visualization, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Computed Tomography, Tomosynthesis imaging, X-Ray imaging systems, and medical device development. This expert has many years of experience in theoretical, as well as practical aspects of Cone-Beam CT. This expert has been involved in two patent litigations.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #218101
This expert is a Registered Professional Engineer with many years of experience in the biotechnology field. This expert holds PhD and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering, is an ASME Fellow, and an IEEE Senior Member. This expert is also a member of ASM International (the Materials Information Society) and SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). Currently, this expert is the Principal and Founder of an engineering consulting firm that focuses on providing support for early stage medical device and technology companies. Specializing in mechanical engineering design and behavior of biomedical devices, shape memory metals, bio-absorbable polymers and MEMs, this expert consults actively in these areas, as well as in failure analysis and reliability. This expert has extensive experience in the use of finite element analysis and simulation of structures, heat transfer, fluid flow and Mechanical Design for Reliability. This expert led the design and development of diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and has skills honed in researching and analyzing IP and competing technologies.
This expert has direct experience with implantable, cardiovascular stents, with early work related to finite element analysis and fatigue life prediction as part of the client company's FDA IDE submission. Early projects were generally balloon expandable coronary stents and the analysis went through the steps of roll-down from the as-manufactured geometry, balloon expansion, balloon deflation, and coronary cyclic pressure fluctuations. This expert also worked with self-expanding stents. Other projects involved devices such as stent-grafts for AAA application and stents for other applications such as renal, etc. Failure analysis projects involving stents came along periodically with issues such as fatigue failures during life testing, corrosion, or other metallurgical issues. Litigation projects involving stents followed. The cases were generally patent matters involving various aspects of stent technology and design. This expert has served as a testifying expert witness in medical device patent litigation and has provided deposition and trial testimony for a total of 18 IP cases, 7 IP Depositions (>20 depositions total), 1 IP Trial (4 Trials all together), and 7 IPR Declarations. This expert has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the Mechanical Engineering Department at a prestigious universities, including courses on Materials, Manufacturing, and Mechanical Design.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #211550
This expert holds a Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering and serves as:
- Associate Professor with Tenure
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Director - Laboratory for Translational, Experimental and Computational Cardiovascular Research
- Adjunct Professor - Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
This expert is also the Founder, Member and Manager of a prolific consultancy and medical device innovation firm.
This expert's familiarity with medical device design and innovation dates back years while working as a cooperative education student in a Quality Assurance and Research & Development continuing through this expert's Postdoc in Pediatrics and Bioengineering. During this time, this expert advanced several concepts for a progressive expansion diameter stent through the patentability, market assessment and prototype stages of development. This expert subsequently started a company to focus R&D efforts on a pediatric stent for the staged treatment of stenoses in children.
This expert has served as an expert for litigation in about a dozen cases, none have been patent matters. This expert has written expert reports for both plaintiff and defendant, been professionally prepped for deposition, given one deposition, helped prepare attorneys for deposing opposition experts, and been prepped for trial. This expert has not yet had the opportunity to testify in court. This expert is however, very familiar with the patent process and understands the role of the subject matter expert in associated litigation.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #261725
This expert is a biomaterials and medical device product development expert with many years of experience. This expert leads a global team that develops pediatric Craniomaxillofacial implants from concept to global commercialization at a Fortune 500 medical firm. This expert has successfully developed, FDA cleared, and launched Bioresorbable, Bone Cement, and Distraction technologies.
This expert is the author of several published scientific articles and inventor of patents on Craniomaxillofacial products. This expert conducted a doctoral research in Biomaterials. This expert's degrees are Aerospace Engineering B.S., Mechanical Engineering M.S., and Biomedical Engineering Dr. Eng.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Medical Patent 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 Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #261641
This medical devices expert is a professor of Biomedical Engineering with over 30 years of experience supervising all phases of product development, including concept definition, prototyping, design, clinical trials, FDA clearance, and regulatory compliance, including UL, CSA, and CE listings.
This expert specializes in patent development and technology licensing and is the named inventor on several medical device patents. This expert has owned a design company for many years and has testified at depositions and trials over 25 times, including before the International Trade Commission.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #269592
This medical device expert has worked in the medical device industry for over 40 years and holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in biomedical engineering. This expert has served as CEO of over 5 medical device companies in multiple countries and has served on the boards of over 10 companies, including as board chair.
This expert has led companies developing in vitro diagnostic tests for patients with chest pain of suspected cardiac origin. This expert is an inventor on over 50 issued U.S. patents, including patents in the field of cardiac in vitro diagnostics, and has authored or co-authored several peer-reviewed papers, including papers related to cardiac diagnostic tests.
This expert is familiar with cardiac in vitro diagnostics, including the regulatory pathway, physiology, and statistical background of diagnostic tests. This expert has worked on matters involving alleged breach of fiduciary duty, alleged misappropriation of trade secrets, licensing agreements, patent disputes, product liability, and commercial disputes involving commercially reasonable efforts in an M&A transaction.
This expert has worked as both a consulting expert and testifying expert in many cases, has written reports, been deposed, and testified at trial. This expert's expert witness experience includes patent disputes involving infringement, ownership, IPR, and ITC proceedings.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #277971
This orthopaedic medical device design, testing, and failure expert holds a PhD in Bioengineering, an MS in Biomedical Engineering, and Licensed Professional Engineer credentials in multiple states, with over 20 years of experience and a senior leadership role at an engineering consultancy specializing in orthopaedic medical device failure analysis, independent medical device design and review, and medical device testing.
This expert has direct experience in spine implant biomechanics and research, including research involving cervical spine fixation devices and scoliosis rod systems using human cadavers. This expert has investigated spinal device failure and has trial testimony experience, including work for both plaintiff and defense sides in medical device cases.
This expert assists academic institutions, legal teams, and other clients in developing testing protocols for biomechanics in areas related to product liability, computer animation and simulation, structural analysis, sports injury, orthopedic biomechanics, and patent application, evaluation, comparison, infringement, and validity issues.
This expert also serves as an adjunct professor in mechanical engineering and orthopaedic surgery departments at a university.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #282140
This medical device and patent expert earned a B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering and a J.D., and has worked in medical device patent litigation since graduating from law school, including medical device patent prosecution, drafting and filing patent applications and amendments, and preparing freedom-to-operate opinions.
This expert later held senior patent counsel leadership roles at a spine surgery company focused on spinal implants, instrumentation, and biologics.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #282640
This product design expert has been involved in product design and development for over 35 years across a wide variety of products, including audio products, personal care products, home appliances, kitchen accessories, car accessories, sunglasses, home goods, wearable items, and medical devices. This expert has extensive knowledge of product engineering and patent matters, with experience across concept development, industrial design, mechanical design, electrical design, acoustics, manufacturability, and moldability for injection-molded parts.
As a registered US Patent Agent, this expert has worked independently and with outside counsel on patent searches, patent applications, patent prosecution, and patent litigation. This expert is a named inventor on over 60 patents and has provided support in numerous litigations.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #283242
This medical device and fluid dynamics expert holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD in Mechanical Engineering and provides engineering consulting services related to medical device engineering, particularly fluid mechanics.
This expert has built a professional career devising medical devices involving blood and other body fluids. Work within a healthcare corporation included designing devices and leading transfusion medicine projects focused on innovation in blood technologies.
This expert developed an engineering group focused on fluid mechanics for measuring and managing the flow of fluids with various viscosities, flow standards, and drug delivery systems. Experience includes syringes, blood and blood components, valves, fluid mechanics and dynamics, reservoirs, chambers, and needles.
This expert has served as an adjunct professor of engineering and has experience supporting patent matters.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #284447
This medical device manufacturing expert has worked in the medical devices field for over 25 years designing, developing, and launching medical devices, including surgical devices for spinal bone repair.
This expert has specific experience developing surgical tools such as retractors, drainage devices, and suture devices. This expert also has an extensive portfolio of patents and has authored 510(k) submissions. This expert has patent litigation experience serving as an expert witness and providing testimony in multiple cases in the medical device field.
Start Medical Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #284662
This microbiology expert has over 30 years of experience covering medical devices, quality assurance, microbiology, and pharmaceutical industry research, and has held a leadership role in a nonprofit scientific and educational forum focused on the exchange of information on microbiological issues.
This expert has served as an expert witness in patent litigation involving microbiology, general physiology, and statistics, including consultation, patent review, fact finding, discovery, expert opinion, deposition, and trial testimony.
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