Streaming Media Expert

Expert testimony services for Streaming Media Patent Litigation

Dr. Lavian offers expert witness services in patent litigation cases, including expert testimony, expert witness reports and declarations, and patent analysis involving, VoIP, SIP, and streaming media. Dr. Lavian provides courtroom presence, clear testimony, and an ability to effectively distill complex concepts into understandable basics and commonsense.

Dr. Lavian’s academic background and practical industry experience provide him with a profound depth and breadth of knowledge regarding network communications, multimedia, streaming, and audio/video conferencing. He is highly experienced in different aspects of the relationships between Internet Protocols (TCP/IP), streaming applications, protocols, and services, and their underlying communications service architectures, designs, and implementations.

Expert Witness Services

As an expert in VoIP, audio/video conferencing, and streaming media, Dr. Lavian offers expert witness services in patent litigation cases, including:

Expert testimony in United States District Courts, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), International Trade Commission (ITC), and other courts across the United States and Canada.
Testimony before USPTO PTAB, including Inter partes review (IPR), Covered Business Method (CBM), Post Grant Review (PGR), Ex-Parte Re-Examination, and PTO Interference.
Testimony at depositions, oral hearings, and trials.
Technology education for claim constructions and Markman hearings.
Expert reports and declarations, including infringement analysis, validity analysis, claim terms constructions, and interpretations.
Articulation of technical material for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Product and technology analysis related to patent portfolios, claim charts, prior art investigation, and patentability research.

Streaming Media Technologies

Dr. Lavian has extensive experience with network communications components which are part of the Internet architecture. He is intimately familiar with the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) and has a proficiency in networking and communications technologies, including:

Multimedia, audio, and video streaming, video/audio conferencing, streaming media, music streaming over TCP/IP protocol stack using standard Internet protocols such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, HTML, and Web services.
Integration of VoIP and streaming media with SIP, Internet protocols (TCP/IP), and PSTN, VoIP systems as the backbone of unified communicants.
Integration of such protocols and services with short messages technologies, including text messaging, SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging (IM), and chat applications.
Implementing such technologies over handsets, mobile devices, smartphones, cellular networks, wireless technologies, architectures, standards, systems, and backend infrastructure.
Streaming protocols, VoIP protocols, IP telephony, SIP, RTP, H.323, MGCP, and codecs (such as G.711. G.722, G.729).
Bandwidth, Quality of Service (QoS) as related to conferencing and media streaming.

Dr. Lavian’s extensive experience with VoIP systems and protocols, audio/video conferencing, and streaming technologies, primarily as implemented through the TCP/IP protocol suite, gives him a keen understanding of the logic behind VoIP and streaming and their component application, transport, network, data link, and physical layers. He worked on multiple projects and solutions based on PBX, IVR systems, using Asterisk, SIP, and VoIP.

Audio/Video conferencing, and Streaming Media Technologies - Past Expert Witness Cases Including:

VoIP, short message service, SMS, and chat apps patents (IPR, deposition).
iPhone, iPad, and other Apple mobile wireless products and technologies (Prior art research and invalidation claim charts).
Telecommunications architecture, PSTN, and VoIP patents (IPR, depositions).
Video conference application program (Declaration regarding claim amendments).
Computer network protocol for a multimedia application (Patent prior art investigation and invalidation analysis).
Firewall and secure multimedia communications (IPR).
Access and security of data networking attached devices, Network Firewall, Proxy Server, Network security (IPR).

Expert Witness Services

As an expert in VoIP, audio/video conferencing, and streaming media, Dr. Lavian offers expert witness services in patent litigation cases, including:

Expert testimony in United States District Courts, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), International Trade Commission (ITC), and other courts across the United States and Canada.
Testimony before USPTO PTAB, including Inter partes review (IPR), Covered Business Method (CBM), Post Grant Review (PGR), Ex-Parte Re-Examination, and PTO Interference.
Testimony at depositions, oral hearings, and trials.
Technology education for claim constructions and Markman hearings.
Expert reports and declarations, including infringement analysis, validity analysis, claim terms constructions, and interpretations.
Articulation of technical material for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Product and technology analysis related to patent portfolios, claim charts, prior art investigation, and patentability research.