Prof Ian Cullimore's Website

email me at ian@iancullimore.com: Click here to send an email to me

Silicon Valley:
228 Hamilton Avenue, 3rd Floor
Palo Alto
CA 94301

Also in Herefordshire U.K.


Specialities: Software/Hardware Patents, IP (copyright, source code infringement), Computer Forensics, Expert Witness, hands-on software/firmware/hardware developer, and electronics design

Technology Expert Witness

• 38 Expert cases to date
• 27 Expert Reports written to date
• 13 Depositions given
• 5 IPRs (US PTAB)
• 3 at Trial or Testimony or Attendance (Old Bailey - Central Criminal Court, London; American Arbitration Association, San Francisco; United States District Court, Oakland CA)
• 10 granted patents to my name Click here to see a list or see below

• Aaron Frankel, Kramer Levin NY
• Alston & Bird, Atlanta GA
• Armstrong Teasdale LLP, St. Louis MO
• Arnold & Porter, San Francisco CA
• Cooley LLP, Palo Alto CA
• Covington & Burling, Redwood City CA
• Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Minneapolis MN
• Farella Braun+Martel, San Francisco CA
• Fenwick & West, Mountain View, CA
• Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP. Washington DC
• Fish & Richardson, Atlanta GA; Houston TX; Washington DC
• Her Majsety's Government, London UK
• Hogan Lovells, Washington DC
• Jones Day, San Francisco CA
• K&L Gates, Los Angeles CA
• Kenyon & Kenyon, NY
• LTL Attorneys, Los Angeles CA
• Morrison Foerster, San Francisco, CA
• O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, CA
• Origin Ltd, London UK
• Proskauer Rose, Boston, MA
• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan NY
• Steptoe & Johnson, Washington DC
• Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Chicago, IL
• Wilkinson Kimbers, London UK

• Acer
• Adobe
• Apple
• Blackberry
• Bumble
• Dell
• Gateway
• Hewellet Packard
• Honeywell
• Intel
• King.com
• Lenovo
• Lyft
• MediaTek
• Microsoft
• Motorola
• Phoenix Technologies
• Realtek
• Samsung
• Starbucks
• Target
• Texas Instruments
• Tom Tom
• Toshiba
• US Government
• VMware
• Walmart

Pocket PC Inventor and Software & Hardware Developer:

Software and Hardware Development Consultant

• I specialise in Embedded C (ARM, x86, MIPS)
• Also C++, C#, Java, Python, VHDL, and most other programming languages
• Linux servers (LAMP, general Frameworks)
• 'Bringing up' hardware boards
• Hardware design and prototyping (ARM, x86, MIPS); Eagle CAD; Xilinx FPGA
• Communications: TCP/IP stack development, Serial, SPI, I2C
• Device drivers

Major Past Full-time Employment Highlights:

• British Aerospace (Brooklands, Weybridge, UK - Software Programmer) - I even did a tiny amount of work on Concorde
• Thorn EMI, Soho, London - Video games programmer (Atari)
• Psion, London - Video games programmer and one of the developers of the Psion Organiser handheld computer
• Digital Research/Novell - DR DOS and NetWare PalmDOS lead developer
• Xircom, California - Software Director
• Two Way TV, London - Interactive TV, CTO
• EPOC32/Symbian - Operating System architect
• Peavey Electronics & Music

Education

• Degree in Mathematics from King's College London
• PhD in Cognitive & Computer Science from the University of Sussex, UK
• Had a spell as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK
• Started an MSc in Computer Science at Imperial College, London, but became too busy with my successful startup 'D.I.P.' where I invented the Atari Portfolio...
• Currently a Visiting Professor at the new Hereford University (NMITE), UK
• Discovery of the Higgs Boson (University of Edinburgh/Open University/FutureLearn)
• Philosophy of Science (University of Oxford - Further Education)
• Attended Astrophysics at University College, London, as part of my undergraduate course

Patents and Provisionals to my name:

My University of Sussex Thesis 'An Analysis and Implementation of Informal Human-Computer Interaction':

My University of Sussex 'White House Papers':