Peo­ple be­hind TIPAG

Over 25 years of man­age­ment ex­pe­ri­ence, in­clud­ing roles as Busi­ness Unit Manager

More than 15 years as Gen­er­al Manager

Non‑executive di­rec­tor in sev­er­al companies

Ex­ten­sive lead­er­ship ex­pe­ri­ence in:

• Process en­gi­neer­ing

• Plas­tics and alu­mini­um processing

• In­dus­tri­al met­al processing

• Cof­fee and pro­fes­sion­al cof­fee ma­chine technology

Long‑standing R&D en­gi­neer and sci­en­tist with a strong “out‑of‑the‑box thinker” mindset

Deep ex­per­tise in cir­cuit de­sign and analysis

Ex­cel­lent knowl­edge of pow­er electronics

Over 20 years of ex­pe­ri­ence as a patent an­a­lyst and re­verse engineer

Broad ex­per­tise in circuit‑related patents, including:

• Pow­er supplies

• Video, au­dio, and data transmission

• Sen­sors

• User in­ter­faces

• Codec stan­dards

• Me­chan­i­cal structures

• Re­verse analy­sis of in­te­grat­ed cir­cuits (ICs)

Long‑standing ex­pe­ri­ence in prepar­ing patent in­fringe­ment evidence

Tech­ni­cal ex­pert in patent li­cens­ing discussions

Many years of reverse‑engineering ex­pe­ri­ence in:

• Pow­er supplies

• Con­sumer electronics

• Com­mu­ni­ca­tion products

Deep knowl­edge of broad­cast­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion stan­dards, including:

• DVB

• H.264

• WiFi

• Blue­tooth

• DOCSIS

• DSL

• Ad­di­tion­al trans­mis­sion standards

Ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence as de­vel­op­ment en­gi­neer in:

• Pow­er electronics

• Dig­i­tal TV technology

Par­tic­i­pa­tion in projects involving:

• E‑payment

• EV charg­ing technologies

• Auto‑navigation

Fo­cus on patent analy­ses for prov­ing and de­fend­ing against patent infringement

Tech­ni­cal sup­port in patent­ing and li­cens­ing procedures

Con­tributed to the suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of dozens of li­cence agreements

Reverse‑engineering ex­per­tise, including:

• IC trac­ing

• Cir­cuit analysis

Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of patent in­fringe­ments in mul­ti­me­dia stan­dards such as:

• DVB‑x / DVB‑x2

• ATSC 3.0

Par­tic­i­pa­tion in var­i­ous tech­no­log­i­cal de­vel­op­ments as tech­ni­cal expert

Long‑standing pas­sion for mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tions and wire­less technologies

Ten years of in­ten­sive in­volve­ment in mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tion patents

Deep un­der­stand­ing of “smart­phone bat­tles” and the as­so­ci­at­ed risks and opportunities

Proac­tive tech­ni­cal ad­vi­sor to clients

Par­tic­i­pa­tion in nu­mer­ous rounds of patent dis­cus­sions with li­censees and ex­ter­nal patent attorneys

Fa­mil­iar with a wide range of in­dus­try stan­dards, including:

• 3G

• 4G (PHY to RRC)

• MPEG‑4

• WiFi

• DVB

Ex­pe­ri­ence in soft­ware hack­ing and IP traf­fic manipulation

Spe­cial­ist in mem­o­ry ex­trac­tion and con­tent analysis

Ex­trac­tion of mem­o­ry dumps using:

• Log­ic analysers

• Soft­ware tools run­ning on tar­get devices

De­vel­op­er of cus­tom content‑analysis software

Ex­pert in ac­cess­ing Linux‑based de­vices such as:

• Dig­i­tal TVs

• Set‑top box­es

• Mo­bile phones

Strong back­ground in soft­ware hacking

Fa­mil­iar with DVB trans­mis­sion tech­nol­o­gy, especially:

• HbbTV

Over 20 years of ex­pe­ri­ence analysing and doc­u­ment­ing patent infringements

Tes­ti­fied in Ger­man courts and suc­cess­ful­ly sup­port­ed le­gal teams

Ear­ly fas­ci­na­tion with con­sumer elec­tron­ics, lat­er lead­ing to a tech­ni­cal career

Over 20 years as an en­gi­neer spe­cial­is­ing in in­fringe­ment analysis

Broad an­a­lyt­i­cal ex­pe­ri­ence in:

• OSD and user interfaces

• Hard­ware and bus systems

• Mem­o­ry management

• Video com­pres­sion (MPEG‑2, MPEG‑4, HEVC)

Work on me­chan­i­cal implementations

In­ves­ti­ga­tion of net­work tech­nolo­gies such as:

• WiFi

• Blue­tooth

• NFC

• LAN

• WAN

• In­clud­ing analy­sis of re­lat­ed stan­dard documents

Ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in patent discussions

Eval­u­a­tion of large patent port­fo­lios (over 1,500 patents)

Over two decades of ex­pe­ri­ence analysing patents and map­ping claims to CE prod­ucts, including:

• TVs

• Set‑top box­es

• PVRs

• Cam­eras

• Mo­bile devices

Cre­ation of tech­ni­cal in­fringe­ment evidence

Ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence with stan­dards and tech­nolo­gies such as:

• DVB

• ARIB

• In­ter­net transmission

• GUIs

• Record­ing technologies

• Net­work solutions

Sup­port­ed suc­cess­ful li­cence agreements

Par­tic­i­pat­ed in patent dis­cus­sions with li­censees, pro­vid­ing tech­ni­cal in­sights to le­gal teams

Led a small team across projects for Eu­ro­pean and Asian markets

Eval­u­at­ed patent port­fo­lios for ac­qui­si­tion or sale

Re­cent system‑engineering ex­per­tise in:

• Mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tion in dis­trib­uted net­works with lim­it­ed bandwidth