About
About Miraje Consulting
With over 19 years in the field, I’ve developed expertise in intellectual property.
Experience #1
- 2,042 Claims (of 7 patents) that were approved by the patent office, which I consulted on (7,457,250 [126*], 8,155,012 [148*], 8,902,760 [219*], 8,942107 [125*], 9,019,838 [92], 9,049,019 [169*], 9,812,825 [68] = 947 (+ 1,095 Multiple Dependents)
- Dealt with (including read) 850+ Asserted Prior Art documents (Patents - U.S. & Foreign combined)
- Dealt with (including read) 550+ Asserted Prior Art documents (Non-Patents)
- Dealt with (including read) 100+ Standards (e.g., Network & Cabling Standards) & Defacto Standards
- Dealt with (including read) 50+ Settlement/Royalty Agreements (Including “Arms-Length” Agreements)
- Dealt with (including read) 50+ Prosecution Histories
- Dealt with (including read) 30+ Depositions
- Dealt with (including read) 20+ Legal Briefs (Plaintiff & Defendants)
- Dealt with (including read) 10+ Expert Reports (Plaintiff & Defendants)
Experience #2
Over 19 years in patent litigation and licensing. This included:
- 13 years of patent litigation with one of the large billions of dollars companies.
- Litigation using over a half a dozen patents essential to a billions of dollars industry.
- Worked with over a dozen patent law firms.
- Lots of Research
- Markman’s
- Infringement Analysis
- Correcting Legal Briefs (Plaintiff)
- Correcting Claim Charts (Plaintiff)
- Exposing the inaccuracies of Legal Briefs (Defendants)
- Exposing the inaccuracies of Claim Charts (Defendants)
- Education and support to Plaintiff patent attorneys
- Challenging Inventorship
- Venue arguments/importance
- “Preponderance of Evidence” vs “Clear & Convincing”
- Support for Claims in Specification
- Smallest Salable Unit
- Declarations
- Notice Letters (150+)
- 1449 Forms
- Been deposed twice
- Patent Troll arguments/ruling
- Minimize data storage cost
- Special Masters – reason to be concerned
- Reexam’s
- Mediation
- PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board i.e., “Death Squad”)
- IEEE Standards (e.g., 802.3 & 802.5)
- ANSI Standards
- RAND / FRAND
- PACER (Public Access To Court Electronic Records)
- IPR’s (Inter Partes Review)
- Exposing Bogus Drawings by Defendants
- Dealt with “Monopolization” arguments by Defendants
- Dealt with “Inequitable Conduct” arguments by Defendants
- Dealt with “Fraud” arguments by Defendants
- Dealt with “hiding documents and email arguments” made by Defendants
- Dealt with change of venue arguments made by Defendants
- Dealt with estoppel arguments made by Defendants
- Dealt with many plaintiffs’ “expert reports”.
- Dealt with the inherent weaknesses of technical experts.
- Dealt with having an “open patent application”.
- Dealt with the district courts failure to understand the patented technology.
- Dealt with the district courts ability to prevent you from having your day in court.
- Dealt with the district courts ability to conflict the factual evidence.
- Dealt with the district courts ability to conflict their own rulings.
- Dealt with the Federal Circuits ability to disregard the facts and law (Rule 36 > Judgment of Affirmance Without Opinion).
- Dealt with the laws change regarding domestic industry.
- Dealt with a myriad of misrepresentations of the prior art.
- Dealt with a company saying they stopped selling infringing products, but kept on selling infringing products.
- Dealt with being called a “Patent Troll” or NPA (Non-Practicing Entity).
- Dealt with getting a law firm to take infringement case on contingency.
- Dealt with getting a law firm to take infringement case on contingency on a lower than typical rate.
- Dealt with steps an inventor should take if he/she believes they have an invention.
- Dealt with IEEE, ANSI TIA/EIA, ISO IEC, ETSI, ITU and USB standards.
- Dealt with at least Ethernet, LattisNet, FDDI, SDDI, CDDI, Token Ring, USB, ISDN, POTS, David, MagicNet and ATM networks.
- Dealt with catching Defendants lying to the PTAB.
- Dealt with a myriad of deception and lies by technical experts.