Leon McCaughan
Integrated Photonics Research Group
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Patents
- U.S. Patent applied for, WARF #P09149US, "Integrated Miniaturized Fiber Optic Probe" 11/2010.
- U.S. Patent #7,865,048,B2 "Nested Waveguides," 1/2011.
- U.S. Patent #7,515,801 "Bright, Tunable, CW Coherent THz Source," 4/2009.
- U.S. Patent #6,951,120 B2 "Machining of LiNbO3 by Laser Ablation" 10/2005.
- U.S. Patent #6,848,428 B2 "Thin film LiNbO3 and method of producing the same," 1/2005.
- U. S. Patent #6,545,791 "Electro-optic Elements," 4/2003.
- U. S. Patent #6,433,919 "Method and apparatus for wavelength conversion and switching," 8/2002.
- U. S. Patent #5,227,913 "Co-deposition of erbium and titanium into LiNbO3 and optical amplifier produced thereby," 07/1993.
- U.S. Patent 4,997,245 "Polarization Independent Optical Switches," 3/1991.
- U. S. Patent #5,020,872 "Method of Operating an Electro-optic Modulator," 06/1991; European patent issued 4/1990.
- U.S. Patent #4,968,112 "Guided Wave Apparatus for Providing Depolarized Light," 3/1991; European patents issued 1/1990.
- U..S. Patent #5,020,872 "Wavelength-broadened Polarization-independent Optical Switch," 11/1990; European patent issued 4/1990.
- U.S. Patent #5,020,772 "Method of Operating an Electro-optic Modulator to Eliminate Drift;" 6/1991; European patent issued 4/1990.
Patent-related Experience
- Actively involved in drafting the claims of all of the patents listed above.
- Served as consultant to a Fortune-500 company. Over a 2 ½ - year period:
- Planned and conducted patent portfolio searches: evaluating over 300 core technology patents;
- Assessed viability of patents with respect to potential infringement and applicability to core technologies of company;
- Identified potential patent infringement situations and advised re. litigation & licensing;
- Reverse-engineered several devices and subsystems of potentially offending companies;
- Constructed several patent claims "maps" for licensing negotiations.
- Served as a testifying expert witness in patent infringement case against an optical imaging manufacturer. (Subsequent verdict resulted in a willful infringementjudgment against the defendant.)
- Based on my patents issued 2003 – 05, a start-up company, Pandanus Inc., was formed to develop high performance integrated optic devices for the telecommunications market.
