Scientist, Telecommunications, Networks Software & Systems, Internet, Patents Litigation Support, Expert Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area
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- CET Faculty, Industry Fellow and Lecturer - College of Engineering at UC Berkeley - Engineering
- Scientist at Innovations IP Consulting
- Past
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- Principal Scientist at Nortel Labs
- President at Java User Group - Mountain View /Silicon Valley
- Principal Architect at Bay Architecture Labs
- Software & Networking Leader at Aptel Communicaiton
- Software developer, Network leader at Scitex
- Software Engineer at Shaleve Robotics
- Education
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- University of California, Berkeley
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Tal Lavian, Ph.D.’s Summary
Scientist, inventor and educator in the areas of computer science and electrical engineering related to telecommunications. Over 20 years of experience, including Principal Investigator for DARPA and visiting scientist at UC Berkeley’s RAD Lab.UC Berkeley CET Industry Fellow and lecturer, School of Engineering.
Litigation support, expert consulting and technology simplification
Technology consulting: Data networking, telecommunications, Internet, Web, network protocols, TCP/IP, VoIP, and wireless.
Patent consulting: Infringement analysis, validation/invalidation analysis, prior art search and review. Prior art in publications and Ph.D. dissertations to support validity and obviousness.
Prolific inventor and technologist. Over 60 inventions, co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed publications.
Tal Lavian, Ph.D.’s Specialties:
Telecommunications, Data Communications, Internet Networking, Patents, IPR
Litigation Support, Expert Consultation
Tal Lavian, Ph.D.’s Experience
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CET Faculty, Industry Fellow and Lecturer - College of Engineering
UC Berkeley - Engineering
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Center of Technology and Entrepreneurship (CET)
http://cet.berkeley.edu/
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/index.htm
This semester teaching IEOR 190G - Patent Engineering -
Scientist
Innovations IP Consulting
(Research industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Patent infringement consultation, focused on scientific and engineering aspects of patents, Prior Art, Claim Charts, and Obviousness.
Builds patent portfolios for startups. Mines the “golden nuggets” hidden within ideas and evolves them into inventions and innovations. Incubates novel ideas into patents and product deployments.
Angel Investor – invests in incubation of innovative ideas in the areas of telecommunications, networking, internet, and general computer science.
Professional Affiliations
* ACM
* IEEE
* IEEE-CNSV
* SFIPLA - SF Intellectual Property Law Association
* SVIPLA - Silicon Valley IP Law Association
* SLATA - Stanford Law And Technology Association
* FEWA - Forensic Expert Witness Association
* Silicom Ventures Angels -
Principal Scientist
Nortel Labs
(Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)
May 2000 — April 2007 (7 years)
Academic & Industrial Research
• Led research interaction with UC Berkeley under the RAD Lab academic umbrella, including Google, Microsoft Research, HP Labs, SUN Labs, IBM Research, and Oracle
• Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley with focus on Datacenter communication
• Researched technology horizon and academic world to predict technological trends well in advance
Patent Leadership
• Technical researcher of prior art with track record of defeating competing patentability
• Evaluator of competitive products relative to Nortel’s patent portfolio • Technical advisor for patent litigation evaluating technology patent infringement
• Facilitated creation of continuous stream of innovation; focal point for IPR capturing
Technologies:
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Network Communications, Network Architecture, Computer Networks:
• Network protocols: OSI Layers, TCP/IP suite, TCP, UDP, IP, IP-v4, IP-v6, FTP, Network Applications, Data Link, ICMP, ARP, ICMP, DNS, SNMP, Multicast, Unicast, SMTP, POP,
• Routing/Switching: routing protocols, RIP, BGP, DNS, Quality of Service (QoS), NAP, MPLS, Switching, Packet Switching, Circuit Switching, LAN, WAN,VPN, Network Infrastructure
• Wireless: 802.11xx, CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, GSM, UTMS, LTE, WiMax, 2.5G, 3G, Mobile IP, and cell.
Internet: Intranet, Extranet, Web, Web Applications, HTTP, HTML, URL, Java, C, C++, Grid Computing,
•Client Server: Unix Communications, Sockets, ports, IPC, PRC, File Transfer
• Intellectual Property, IP, IPR, Inventions, Patents, Innovations, Litigation Consultant -
President
Java User Group - Mountain View /Silicon Valley
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — January 2001 (2 years 1 month)
President of the Java User Group with over 800 active members.
Http://www.mtvjug.org -
Principal Architect
Bay Architecture Labs
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Bay; Computer Networking industry)
March 1996 — May 2000 (4 years 3 months)
Principal Investigator for US Department of Defense Research Agency projects (DARPA)
• Conceived concept, wrote proposal, and completed three research projects: Active Networks, DWDM-RAM, and a project for Air Force Research Lab (AFRL)
• Built collaborative teams of Ph.D. students, professors and high-level industry researchers
Technology Innovation
• Proactively identified prospective business ideas leading to creation of new profitable networking products
• Researched technology horizon and academic world to predict technological trends well in advance
• Analyzed and determined potential success of new technologies in effort to reduce development risk associated with R&D investment
Software Architect. Led Opentlab.org -
Software & Networking Leader
Aptel Communicaiton
(Computer Networking industry)
August 1993 — August 1995 (2 years 1 month)
Start-up company, developing wireless Spread-Spectrum PCN/PCS.
Software Engineering Lead
Responsible for the design and development of software network product
• Chief Architect for Personal-Communication-Network(PCN) /Personal-Communication-System (PCS)
• Responsible for decisions relating to Operating System, hardware, programming language, software development tools and development environment
• Brought 2-way paging product from concept to development -
Software developer, Network leader
Scitex
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SCTX; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1990 — August 1993 (3 years 8 months)
Software Engineer, Team Lead
Flagship of the Israeli high tech industry
$2B software/hardware printing company acquired by Hewlett Packard
• As Technical Leader, interfaced the Eastman Kodak Proofer to the Scitex Prisma system
• Member of Technology Innovation group
• Invented a parallel SIMD Architecture -
Software Engineer
Shaleve Robotics
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1986 — December 1989 (4 years)
Robotics Start-Up.
Developed algorithms for robotics.
Tal Lavian, Ph.D.’s Education
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University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. , Computer Science , 2000 — 2006
Additional Information
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Tal Lavian, Ph.D.’s Interests:
Litigation Support, Expert Consultation, Patent Analysis, IP Commercialization, Intellectual Property
Tal Lavian, Ph.D.’s Honors:
# Over 40 patents issued and pending
# Over 25 scientific publications
# Top Talent Award Nortel Networks
# Top Inventors Award Nortel Networks EDN
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