Dr Ian Cullimore

Dr Cullimore is an experienced hi-tech CTO-level person, yet still very hands-on (architecting, coding). He has a vast experience both in the UK and California (Silicon Valley & LA) in companies ranging from small startups to large corporations, and in building and managing software and hardware teams. He graduated in Mathematics from King's College London, and gained a PhD in Cognitive and Computer Science from the University of Sussex.

He specialises in; IoT, embedded, handhelds, smartphones, mobile, operating systems, device drivers, communications, ultra-low power systems, interfacing to the Cloud. Entrepreneur; start-up and young company specialist. Raised angel and VC rounds. Taken startups to Exit. Comfortable interfacing with the Board, Investors, and sales/marketing/bizdev.

Dr Cullimore is an experienced Patent Expert Witness, (14 cases, 10 Reports written, 4 depositions, 1 court case at trial). Clients have included Motorola, Tom Tom and Microsoft. Main areas covered are copyright infringement, intellectual property and data retrieval.

Dr Cullimore has been providing expert witness evidence since 1985. Notable cases include providing evidence in The Crown v Dye et al (for the Plaintiff); Computer Forensics Expert Witness in Old Bailey (Central Criminal Courts, London).

Summary of expert witness cases
Ian Cullimore PhD
Shirlheath Farmhouse, Kingsland, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 9RJ, UK
829 George Court, Brentwood, CA 94513, USA
UK Landline: +44 1568 709129; UK mobile: +44 7765 232258;
US cell: (408) 769 3204
Skype: iancullimore
email: ian@iancullimore.com

Patents/Forensics/Licensing Expert Witness Work:
2015 - Phoenix v VMware (for the Defendant). Morrison Foerster (San Francisco), ref Diana Kruze. Re software license agreement. Expert Report on technology issues written. Code Review undertaken. Deposition given. Court case pending (Nov/Dec 2016).

2015 - Papst Licensing GmbH v Hewlett Packard Corporation (for the Defendant). Fenwick & West (Mountain View, CA), ref Charlene Morrow. Re infringement. Technical analysis undertaken.

2015 - Smart Skins LLC v Microsoft Corporation (for the Plaintiff). Proskauer Rose LLP (Boston, MA). Ref John M. Kitchura, Jr. Re infringement and invalidity. Claims Construction Expert Report written. Validity Expert Report written. Infringement Expert Report written. Deposition given (April 2016). Expert Report written for IPR proceedings.

2013 - 14 Monec v Samsung (for the Defendant). Fish & Richardson (Washington DC). Expert Report written. Deposition given. Ref Linhong Zhang, Chris Winter, Joseph Colaianni. Re Smartphone design issues.

2013 - Cradle IP v Texas Instruments (for the Defendant) Covington & Burling (Redwood City, CA). Expert Report written. Ref Anupam Sharma, Hyun Byun. Re Power management issues.

2012 - St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, Inc., v. Motorola Mobility Inc. (for the Defendant). (Representing Motorola Mobility; case stayed).

2012 - Zynga v King.com (for the Defendant). Origin Ltd, London. Ref Peter Langley, Colm MacKernan.

2011 - Optimum Power Solutions LLC v Apple, Inc. (for the Defendant). Hogan Lovells (Washington DC) Ref Joseph Rafferto, Celine Crowson.

2011 - St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc. v Acer America Corporation, Acer Inc, Dell Inc, Gateway Companies Inc, Gateway Inc, Intel Corp, Lenovo (United States) Inc, Microsoft Corporation, Toshiba America Inc, Toshiba America Information Systems Inc,, and Toshiba Corporation (for the Defendants). Fish & Richardson (Washington). Expert Report written. ref Scott Elengold. ‘The Function Call Monitoring Patents’. (Power management issues). Also counter claim led by Microsoft: Microsoft Corporation v St Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc. For the Plaintiff.

2011 - St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants v Apple Inc. (for the Defendant). Cooley LLP (Palo Alto) Ref Timothy Teler.

2008 - Microsoft Corporation v Tom Tom; SPT v Tom Tom; Garmin v Tom Tom; Bosch v Tom Tom. (for the Defendant). Expert Report written. Origin Ltd, London. Ref Peter Langley, Colm MacKernan

2008 - Symbol Technologies Inc. v Janam Technologies LLC (for the Defendant). Expert Report written. Deposition given. Kenyon & Kenyon, New York, ref John Kenny.

2004-5 - Khyber Technologies Corporation v Hewlett Packard Company (for the Defendant). Expert Report written. Deposition given. Kenyon & Kenyon, New York ref Michael J Lennon

1986-87 - The Crown v Dyer et al. (for the Plaintiff). Expert Report written. Computer Forensics Expert Witness in Old Bailey (Central Criminal Courts, London) case, largest drugs bust case to that date. Defendant had saved deleted data on his computer, which I was able to retrieve.

1985 - For Wilkinson Kimbers (London). Copyright infringement case concerning video games ROM code. Extracted ROMs from motherboards, did forensic examination on code to show copying had taken place.
One Court appearance (UK)
Four Depositions given (USA)
Ten Expert Witness Reports written.
Multiple hardware and software projects giving in-depth technical advice to patent lawyers.

Patents Held:
Ultra-Low Power Single-Chip Firewall Security Device, System and Method (US 8,875,276 B2)
Massively Multicore Processor and Operating System to manage Strands in Hardware (US 8,607, 086 B2)
TCP/IP Stack-Based Operating System (US 8,335,864)
Apparatus and method of communicating with RFID tags (US 7,455,217)
Method of RFID Data Tracking (US 7,040,532)
Computer Power Management System (US 5,560,024)
Computer Power Management System (US 5,428,790)
Compact Portable Computer, EP 0479915
Annotation in a Computer System (application) (US 2002/0154120)