BACKGROUND
Scientist, educator, and technologist with 30 years of experience and a Ph.D. from UC. Berkeley in the fields of telecommunications, network communications, and mobile wireless technologies. I provide expert witness services for patent litigation cases involving telecommunications, wireless networks, and mobile cellular technologies.
Applies academic and industry experience to simplify technical ideas and terminology for a non-technical audience. I have published over 25 scientific papers and have been designated as an inventor on more than 120 patents.
Served as an expert in over 60 patent-related cases where I wrote expert reports and testified in depositions, courts and in front of a jury. I have testified in Federal courts, in USPTO PTAB IPR, and in the ITC. The cases involved leading companies including Google, Motorola, Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, HP, T-Mobile, Ericsson, LG, Facebook, Samsung. and Apple.
EXPERTISE
Network communications, telecommunications, Internet protocols, and mobile wireless:
• Communication networks: Internet protocols; TCP/IP suite, TCP, UDP, IP, Ethernet, 802.3, network protocols, network software applications, data link, network, and transport layers (L2, L3, L4), packet switching, data center network architecture
• Mobile wireless: Wi-Fi, 802.11 (a/b/g/n/ac), MAC, PHY, OFDM, DSSS, Wireless LAN (WLAN), CDMA, FDMA, TDMA, SMS, instant messaging (chat), mobile devices, smartphone
• Internet/cloud: Web applications, HTTP, e-mail, SMTP, POP, IMAP, Java, C/C++, file transfer FTP, client-server, cloud computing, distributed computing
• Routing/switching: LAN, WAN, VPN, routing protocols, RIP, BGP, MPLS, OSPF, multicast, DNS, QoS, network infrastructure, network communication architectures
• Unified Communications: PSTN, circuit switching, IP telephony, VoIP, SIP, RTP, SS7, carrier Ethernet, SONET, SDH, WDM, TDM, video/audio conferencing, streaming media
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Served as Principal Investigator (PI) for three US Department of Defense (DARPA) projects
-- Directed networking computation project for the US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
-- PI of a wireless research project for an undisclosed US federal agency
• Led and developed the first network resource scheduling service for grid computing
• Managed and engineered the first demonstrated transatlantic dynamic allocation of 10Gbs Lambdas as a grid service
• Development and successful demonstration of the first wire-speed active network on commercial hardware
• Inventor of over 120 patents; over 60 prosecuted pro se in front of the USPTO
• Created and chaired Nortel Networks’ EDN Patent Committee
LITIGATION SUPPORT SERVICES
Dr. Lavian’s services have been retained in over 60 cases, and his experience qualifies him to provide each of the following services:
• Serve as an expert witness in federal courts, USPTO IPR, and the ITC
• Testified over 50 times in depositions, ITC, PTAB, Judges, and Jury
• Produce skilled articulation of technical material for both technical and non-technical audiences
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