Dr. Lavian provides scientific and technical support for patent litigation. He is a highly skilled scientist providing patent infringement consultation, focused on technical aspects of patents, Prior Art, Claim Charts, Invalidation, and Obviousness in the area of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Networking and Internet.

• His practice focuses on analyzing Ph.D. dissertations as Prior Art to support Obviousness, KSR ruling and TSM test
• Teaches a Patent Engineering course at UC Berkeley School of Engineering

Dr. Lavian is exceptionally skilled at bridging research, engineering, innovation and patents to provide tangible value in advanced technologies. With 20+ years of experience in high tech industry, he brings expertise in multidisciplinary areas including: networking, communication, grid computing, software and systems. Background:

• Technical advisor for patent litigation evaluating technology patent infringement
• Defeated competing patents by finding prior art through technical research
• Founded Nortel's Enterprise Data Patent Committee and served as its Technical Chair
• Key advisor for hundreds of invention ideas spawned by engineers
• Conceived 63 invention disclosures, issued 16 patents, with an additional 11 patent applications published
• Published over 20 peer reviewed Journal and conference technical papers
• Bridges research, innovation, invention and patent law for building strong patent portfolios

Areas of Expertise:

• Intellectual Property Research
• Patent Analysis and Evaluation
• Prior Art Search
• Expert Witness
• Network Communications
• Routing Switching
• Network Protocols
• TCP/IP UDP Suite
• Building strong patent portfolios

Dr. Lavian is currently a member of:

• ACM, IEEE, IEEE-CNSV, and SVC-PACE
• SFIPA, SVIPA, LES, Inventors' Alliance
• Band of Angels, and Silicom Ventures Angels