Expert witness telecommunications, network communications, wireless

Network Communication and Mobile Wireless Expert Witness

Dr. Lavian is a network communications and telecommunications expert witness who provides litigation and technology support in patent litigation. He served as an expert in over 60 patent-related cases. Dr. Lavian wrote expert reports and testified in depositions, in courts and in front of a jury. He testified in Federal courts, in USPTO PTAB IPRs, and in the ITC.

Dr. Lavian was retained as an expert witness in cases involving leading companies, including Google, Amazon, Motorola, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Huawei, HP, T-Mobile, Ericsson, LG, Facebook, Samsung, and Apple.

As an experienced educator, he is able to simplify and explain complex technologies in a format that juries, judges, and lawyers can understand. He provides expert research, analysis, reporting, and testimony.

What He Offers

With his name on more than 120 issued and filed patents—over 60 prosecuted pro se in front of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)—Dr. Lavian boasts an insider’s grasp of patents touching on telecommunications, network communications, Internet protocols, mobile wireless, and Internet web technologies.

Offering litigation support on patent infringement and invalidity as well as technology education in patent disputes, he provides expert witness services that include:

Testifying at Trial and by Deposition—to clarify complicated technical data so it’s accessible to judge, jury and legal counsel alike
Testifying in International Trade Commission (ITC) trials —investigation, preparing expert reports, testifying in depositions trials.
Investigating patent anticipation, obviousness, and subject matter eligibility—under 35 USC sections 101, 102 and 103)
Writing Inter Partes Review (IPR) & Common Business Method (CBM) Reports and Rebuttals—plus expert declarations for Patent and Trademark Board (PTAB)
Researching Patent Invalidity & Prior Art—by drawing on extensive academic and industry experience (and tapping sources as diverse as patent databases, technical periodicals and conference proceedings) to ensure prior art searches and invalidity assessments are both wide-ranging and exhaustive
Researching challenges in patent claims—such as “indefiniteness” and “means-plus-function”—plus compiling claim charts

IP Litigation Highlights

Communication Networks Expert Witness

Dr. Lavian provides expert witness services in network communications including:

Mobile Wireless
Expert

Routing and Switching Expertise

Prior art research, invalidity claim charts and investigation concerning network communication, routing, and switching technologies
Claim construction declaration for the defense on patents related to multi-protocol telecom routing optimization
Invalidation expert reports for the USPTO’s PTAB plus testimony in depositions on patents related to router switching fabric architecture and Ethernet pseudo-wire VPN
Analysis, claim terms, and Markman claim construction on patents governing multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) technology

Unified Communications Expertise

Inter Partes Review (IPR) reports and testimony in depositions on patents related to VoIP, short message service (SMS) and chat app
Prior art research and invalidation claim charts concerning iPhone, iPad, and other Apple mobile wireless products and technologies
Inter Partes Review (IPR) reports for the USPTO’s PTAB plus testimony in depositions on patents governing telecommunications architecture, PSTN and VoIP
Declaration regarding claim amendment on a video conference application program
Investigation of patents and invalidation analysis of computer network protocol for multimedia application

Internet and Cloud Expert

Inter Partes Review (IPR) reports and depositions regarding patents for telecommunications architecture, PSTN and VoIP
Inter Partes Review (IPR) and Covered Business Method (CBM) review reports plus testimony in depositions on web services and Internet technologies patents
Prior art research, invalidity claim charts and investigation concerning network communication, routing, and switching technologies
Invalidation expert reports for the USPTO’s PTAB plus testimony in depositions on patents related to router switching fabric architecture and Ethernet pseudo-wire VPN