David L. Lyon

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David L. Lyon

Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067-3450 Email: [email protected] Mobile: +1.619.246.5966

1996 - Present CEO, Sage Strategies®

Founded and have continuously operated this technology consulting firm from its inception.

Assignments have included targeted technical projects, interim executive management and long term

Board roles at growth oriented companies, as well as testifying expert witness assignments and

technology consulting in intellectual property litigations.

A partial list of current and past non-litigation clients follows: Cohere Technologies, Libit Signal

Processing (pioneers in DOCSIS), Ozmo Devices (pioneers in Wi-Fi Direct), Orca Systems,

Quantance , RFAxis, RFMD (now Qorvo), Sansay (pioneers in specialized security gateways for

VoIP), and Sidense (best of class OTP IP). A listing of recent consulting relationships can be found

further below.

Patent litigation firms that have retained me as testifying witness or technical consultant on behalf of

their clients include Alston & Bird, Baker & McKenzie, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel,

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff, Quinn Emanuel, and Steptoe & Johnson. A list of cases

can be found further below.

The firm’s websites can be found at www.sagestrategies.net and at www.sagepatents.net.

2004 – 2008 VP/GM , RF MicroDevices, Inc.

Negotiated the acquisition of Silicon Wave by RF MicroDevices in May of 2004. Silicon Wave (see

below) then became the Wireless Personal Area Networking (WPAN) product line within RFMD’s

Wireless Connectivity Business Unit (WCBU). In December of 2006 I helped to negotiate the sale of

RFMD’s WPAN assets to Qualcomm which consequently brought them the Bluetooth technology

which they have subsequently integrated into their broader IC product lines.

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Served as general manager of RFMD’s WCBU from 2005 through 2007. The unit was comprised of

three growth stage product lines: WPAN, GPS IC solutions, and radio front end components for

WLAN & WiMax. Average annual revenue of the unit climbed to approximately $50M and the

revenue growth rate was over 50% per year. Subsequently served as VP of corporate business

development.

1997 – 2004 CEO, Silicon Wave Inc.

Having served Silicon Wave as a technical and management consultant during its formative stages, I

became Chairman of the Board in October of 1997 upon initiation of operations. A year later the

Board recruited me to become the company’s CEO. Subsequently staffed all of the senior operating

management positions, led all subsequent funding rounds, and helped to establish key relationships

with customers and foundry partners. The company was an established technology leader in the field

of wireless personal area networking, in particular the Bluetooth standard.

1987-1996 CEO, PCSI

Co-founded PCSI (Pacific Communication Sciences Inc), was employee #1, and the chief executive

from inception through merger/acquisition with Cirrus Logic (Nasdaq:CRUS) in 1993 and for three

years thereafter while it operated as a wholly owned subsidiary. Served on the Cirrus Logic Board of

Directors from 1993 through 1996.

PCSI was known for its technology leadership in digital telecommunications systems and was a

leading provider of packetized voice multiplexer systems, radio frequency and digital chipsets for

Japanese Personal Handyphone Systems. PCSI helped to pioneer the first packet data designs and

standards for mobile cellular systems (CDPD) and also developed some of the first mobile data base

stations (MDBS) and “smartphones” to use those digital packet data networks. In early 1993 when

PCSI was acquired by Cirrus Logic annual revenue was ~$25Million and headcount was ~150

people. Revenue in FY96 had grown to ~$140Million, headcount was ~500 and the subsidiary was

operating profitably.

1982-1987 VP/GM, Linkabit Div of M/A-Com Inc.

Having been recruited by Dr. Andy Viterbi, I initially served as assistant vice president of

engineering responsible for the commercial engineering staff of Linkabit (a group numbering about

400). At the same time managed the initial product development of the industry’s first successful

Ku-Band very small aperture satellite communication system (VSAT), which was delivered to

Schlumberger Oil Field Services. Later combined the Schlumberger production work into a broader

product group spread across all of M/A-Com and led the creation of the Personal Earth Station (PES)

product line. Subsequently in late 1987 the PES business unit was sold by M/A-Com to Hughes and

was an integral part of Hughes Network Systems.


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1981-1982 Director of Engineering, Novation Inc.

Managed all product engineering and R&D activities for this southern California company which had

pioneered telephone line modems for personal computers. Helped to capture design wins and

production orders from both Apple Computer and IBM’s PC Division for internally integrated

modems.

1972-1981 Director of Research & Product Management, Intertel Inc.

Joined the company upon completing my education at MIT, and then led the research and

development of state-of-the-art telephone line modems and network control systems. My team

perfected the design of a series of equalized modems which were integrated into a comprehensive

automated control system that was geared to meet the needs of enterprises such as banks, airlines, and

package delivery companies. Invented a number of novel techniques in both modem and network

control designs that were awarded five US patents. The company was later acquired by Teleglobe, the

international record carrier of Canada.

1967-1969 Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Three work assignments as part of the VI-2-A cooperative study program of MIT’s EE department

brought me to the Indian Hill, Holmdel, and Murray Hill sites of Bell Labs. The project at Indian Hill

was focused on software synthesis of automated test programs for telephone switching systems. The

project at Holmdel was related to long haul data communications systems over copper lines. At

Murray Hill I worked on problems related to laser pulse sources for future optical fiber

communication networks.


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Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD(’72), MS(’70), BS(’70); all in Electrical Engineering

Doctoral thesis entitled ‘Collisional Relaxation Mechanisms Governing Operation of High Pressure

CO2 Lasers’; September, 1972. Primary thesis advisor: Professor Hermann Haus. Software

simulations of these laser systems confirming theoretical modeling of the mechanisms governing

their optical output and achievable efficiency.

Master of Science thesis entitled ‘Transitions Between Mode-Locked States in Phase-Modulated

Lasers’; written while on cooperative study assignment at AT&T Bell Labs and submitted October,

1969. Thesis advisors: Dr. Tracy Kinsel (Bell Labs) and Professor Hermann Haus (MIT).

Characterization and mathematical modeling of a problematic phenomenon in mode-locked laser

light sources.

Hertz Foundation Fellowship (1969-1972), Scott Fellowship (1968-1970).

Teaching Experience

2002 Lecture on The Lessons Learned in Startup Companies delivered at the Wharton

School’s west coast MBA program in San Francisco

2001 Lecture on Telecom Ventures across the Pacific at University of California (Berkeley)

Haas Business School as part of special MBA course on Asian IT and Entrepreneurship.

1997 Lecture on Wireless Communication Chip Development and International Collaboration

as part of Stanford University School of Engineering’s series in Topics in International

Technology Management

1995-97 Lecturer on wireless technologies for the MIT Sloan School Executive short course for

CNOs: Managing the IT Infrastructure for Global Competitiveness

1994 Video taped lecture on What Digital Engineers Need To Know About Wireless

Communications; produced and distributed by University Video Communications as

part of their Lecture Series VII.

1983 Co-wrote and co-taught extension course Digital Communications and Satellite Systems

(X498.2) with Dr. Paul Moroney in the University of California (San Diego) Electrical

Engineering & Computer Science Department

1974-5 Taught graduate level course Principles of Communication (6.451) in the MIT Electrical

Engineering & Computer Science Department. Wrote original class notes describing

application of theory to the practical design of high speed data communication devices

1970-72 Teaching assistant and lecturer in MIT EE department’s Applied Optics Lab.

Recognized with EE department outstanding teaching award in 1972


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Litigation Experience

June 2010 to February 2011

Consultant to Sony Electronics

Retained by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Case: Bandspeed, Inc. vs Sony Electronics Inc. et al

Western District of Texas; Civil Action No. A09CA593 LY

July to September 2010

Consultant to 724 Solutions, Inc.


Case: Openwave Systems, Inc. vs 724 Solutions, Inc.

Northern District of California; Case No. 09-CV-03511 (RS, HRL)

January 2011 to October 2012

Consultant to EON Corporation IP Holdings, LLC

Retained by Reed & Scardino LLP

Case: EON vs T-Mobile USA, Inc. et al

Eastern District of Texas; Case No 6:10-cv-00379-LED

Filed expert reports and gave deposition testimony

March 2011 to March 2012

Consultant to Ceres Communications Technologies, LLC

Retained by Russ August & Kabat, PLC

Ceres v Atlantic Broadband et al; Case No. 1:10-cv-01062-UNA

Ceres v 8X8, Inc et al; Case No. 1:10-cv-00855-JCJ

September 2011 to December 2011

Consultant to Tramontane IP, LLC

Retained by Russ August & Kabat, PLC

Case in the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division

Tramontane v Garmin et al; Case No: 1:11-cv-00918-LMB-TCB

October 2011 to January 2012

Consultant to RFMD Inc.

Retained by Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

Case in the Eastern District of Texas

Inductive Design, Inc. v Broadcom et al; Case No. 1:11-cv-00421

July 2012 to August 2012

Consultant to MediaTek, Inc. and Ralink Technology Corp.


Case before the US International Trade Commission

LSI Corp & Agere Systems Inc v Funai et al; Inv. No. 337-TA-837


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October 2012 to January 2014

Consultant to British Telecommunications

Retained by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Cases in the District of Delaware

BT v CoxCom et al (#10-658-SLR), Comcast et al v BT (#11-843-SLR)


February 2013 to present

Consultant to Prism Technologies LLC

Retained by Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Cases in the District of Nebraska

Prism v AT&T, Prism v Sprint, Prism v T-Mobile, Prism v USCellular, Prism v Verizon

Civil Action Nos. 8:12-cv-122 to 8:12-cv-126

Filed expert reports, gave deposition testimony,

and have testified at three trials (Prism v AT&T, Prism v Sprint, Prism v T-Mobile)

April 2013 to May 2015

Consultant to EON Corporation IP Holdings, LLC

Retained by Reed & Scardino LLP

Case: EON vs Aruba Networks, et al

Northern District of California; Case No 12-cv-01011-JST


December 2013 to January 2014

Consultant to British Telecommunications

Retained by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Case in the Northern District of Texas

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC et al. v. BT Americas, Inc., Civil Action No. 12-1712

Filed expert report

May 2014 to July 2015

Consultant to Mediatek

Retained by Quinn Emanuel

Case: CSIRO v Mediatek et al

Eastern District of Texas; Case 6:12-cv-00578-LED

Filed expert report and gave deposition testimony

June 2014 to present

Consultant to VTech Communications, Inc. and Uniden Corporation

Retained by Steptoe & Johnson and Baker & McKenzie

Cases: Spherix v VTech and Spherix v Uniden

Northern District of Texas; Cases 13-cv-3494 (VTech) and 13-cv-3496 (Uniden)

PTAB Inter partes review, Case IPR2014-01431

Filed declarations and gave deposition testimony

November 2014 to July 2015

Consultant to Finjan, Inc.

Retained by Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

Case: Finjan v Blue Coat Systems

Northern District of California; Case 13-cv-03999-BLF

Filed expert report, gave deposition testimony, and testified at trial


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August 2015 to present

Consultant to ASUSTEK

Retained by Alston & Bird LLP

Case: Avago v ASUSTEK

Originally in Eastern District of Texas; Case 2:15-cv-00239-JRG

Since December 2015 in Northern District of California; Case 3:15-CV-04525-EMC

Also PTAB Inter Partes Review, Case IRP2016-00647

Have filed expert reports, given deposition testimony and filed declarations

September 2015 to May 2016



Case: Finjan v ProofPoint

Northern District of California; Case 3:13-CV-05808-HSG

Filed expert report and gave deposition testimony

November 2015 to September 2016



Case: Finjan v Sophos

Northern District of California; Case 14-CV-01197-WHO

Filed expert report, gave deposition testimony, and testified at trial


Consultant to Nokia

Retained by Alston & Bird LLP

Case: Huawei v Nokia

Eastern District of Texas; Cases 2:16-CV-0055-JRG-RSP and

2:16-CV-0057-JRG-RSP

Also PTAB Inter Partes Reviews: Cases IPR2017-00590, 00591, 00660, 00661

Submitted declarations in support of IPR petitions

September 2016 to present



Case: Finjan v Blue Coat Systems

Northern District of California; Case 5:15-cv-03295-BLF-SVK


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Other Recent Consulting Relationships

July 2003 to October 2012

Advisor and consultant to Amimon, Inc.

Pioneers in WLAN technology for HD Video using OFMD and MIMO techniques

www.amimon.com

April 2008 to present

Member of Board of Directors, Sidense Corporation

Designers of best of class One Time Programmable (OTP) memory

www.sidense.com

October 2008 to March 2010

Acting CEO & consultant to Ozmo, Inc.

Pioneers in Wi-Fi Direct technology.

http://ir.atmel.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=727959

November 2008 to October 2009

Executive Chairman & consultant to Sand 9, Inc.

MEMS technology for high accuracy timing sources

www.sand9.com

November 2009 to May 2010

Consultant to Quantance, Inc.

High efficiency power supplies for RF amplifiers

www.quantance.com

May 2010 to May 2016

Advisor and consultant to RFaxis, Inc.

Single chip CMOS RF front ends for Wi-Fi and cellular

www.rfaxis.com

June 2010 to September 2011

Advisor and consultant to Fusion Wireless, Inc.

Communications modules for Internet of Things (IoT) applications

http://www.u-blox.com/en/fusion-wireless-joins-the-u-blox-family.html

November 2010 to September 2015

Advisor and consultant to Sansay, Inc.

Pioneers of Session Border Controller technology for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

networks. SBCs are specialized security gateways.

www.sansay.com


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January 2014 to present

Advisor and consultant to Cohere Technologies, Inc.

Pioneers of advanced WAN RF data communication technology

www.cohere-technologies.com

September 2014 to present

Advisor and consultant to Orca Systems, Inc.

High efficiency single chip solutions for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

www.orcasystems.com


Advisor and consultant to China Entropy Ltd. Co.

Telecommunications infrastructure integrator and supplier

http://chinaentropy.com/EN_home.html


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Issued Patents (USA)

3,955,141 D. L. Lyon, J. L. Holsinger, D. E. Williams; Synchronizing Circuit for Modems in a

Data Communications Network; 4 May 1976

4,037,049 D. L. Lyon; Modulator and Demodulator for Data Communications Network;

19 July 1977

4,055,808 J. L. Holsinger, D. L. Lyon, D. E. Williams, F. B. Lezotte, D. I. Falkenstein;

Data Communications Network Testing System; 25 October 1977

4,545,011 D. L. Lyon, R. E. Huettner, J. L. Holsinger, D. I. Falkenstein, I. Piracha, D. T. Ching;

Enhanced Communications Network Testing and Control System; 1 October 1985

4,545,013 D. L. Lyon, R. E. Huettner, J. L. Holsinger, D. I. Falkenstein, I. Piracha, D. T. Ching;

Enhanced Communications Network Testing and Control System; 1 October 1985

5,838,727 D. L. Lyon, C. Poonpol, M. A. Montgomery, J. E. Neeley;

Method and Apparatus for Transmitting and Receiving Digital Data over a Bandpass

Channel; 17 November 1998

6,175,599 D. L. Lyon, C. Poonpol, M. A. Montgomery, J. E. Neeley;

Method and Apparatus for Transmitting and Receiving Digital Data over a Bandpass

Channel; 17 November 1998


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Publications and Presentations (sole author unless noted)

‘Transitions between mode-locked states in intracavity phase-modulated lasers’; D. L. Lyon

and T. Kinsel; Applied Physics Letters; February, 1970

‘Observation of spontaneous mode-locking in a high-pressure CO2 laser’; D. L. Lyon, E. V.

George, and H. Haus; Applied Physics Letters; December, 1970

‘Digital simulation of transversely excited high-pressure CO2 laser operation’; Third

Conference on Chemical and Molecular Lasers; May, 1972

‘Comparison of theory and experiment for a transversely excited high-pressure CO2 laser’;

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics; January, 1973

‘Unified analysis of synchronous digital-modulation schemes’; D. L. Lyon and J. L.

Holsinger; IEEE International Conference on Communications; June, 1973

‘Sampler timing recovery in equalized data communication systems’; IEEE International

Conference on Communications; June, 1974

‘Practical signal space coding for the telephone channel’; National Electronics Conference;

September, 1974 (served as organizer and moderator of session)

‘Timing recovery in synchronous, equalized data communications’; IEEE Transactions on

Communications; February, 1975

‘How to evaluate a high speed modem’; Telecommunications Magazine; October, 1975

‘Envelope derived timing recovery in QAM and SQAM systems’; IEEE Transactions on

Communications; November, 1975

‘Bell’s claims for DDS unsubstantiated’; Computerworld; November, 1975

‘Elimination of DC offset by MMSE adaptive equalizers’; IEEE Transactions on

Communications; November, 1976

‘Diagnostics and the distributed intelligence network’; Communications International;

December, 1976

‘Coping with the downtime dilemma in on-line networks’; IEEE Networks and

Telecommunications Conference; December, 1976

‘Testing modem performance in polled operations’; Data Communications Magazine’ April,

1977


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‘Advanced techniques in real-time data networks’; IEEE Networks and Telecommunications

Conference; December, 1977 (served as organizer and moderator of session)

‘The role of network control in data communications systems’; Communications Networks

Conference; January, 1979

‘Telephone lines speak out for compatible modems’; Electronic Design; April, 1980

‘How network control curbs downtime’; Data Communications Magazine; July, 1980

‘Network control: a view from the DEC’; International Conference on Computer

Communications’; October, 1980

‘Combining data base management and network control’; Communications Networks

Conference; January, 1981

‘Network management systems’; Interface Conference; March, 1981

‘Second order equalizer training methods’; J. Liu and D. L. Lyon; IEEE Communications

Conference; June, 1981

‘Data base management streamlines network management’; Data Communications

Magazine; July, 1981

‘Personal computer standards for dial network communications’; IEEE Conference on

Consumer Electronics; June, 1982

‘Networking over the space channel’; Infocomm Conference; April, 1983

‘The technology of small aperture satellite systems’; IEEE Information Theory Workshop;

June, 1984

‘VSAT technology readiness’; VSATCOM Conference; April, 1985

‘Personal computer communications via Ku-band small earth stations’; IEEE Journal on

Selected Areas in Communications; May, 1985

‘Ku-Band earth stations for data communications’; Ninth Data Communications

Symposium; September, 1985

‘Interference issues affecting Ku-band small-aperture satellite systems’; F. Mohamadi and

D.L.Lyon; AIAA 11th Communication Satellite Systems Conference; March, 1986

‘VSAT technology at M/A-Com Linkabit’; VSATCOM Conference; April, 1986

‘Design features of a VSAT network’; EASCON Conference; September, 1986

‘Effects of solar transit in Ku-band VSAT systems’; F. Mohamadi and D.L.Lyon; IEEE

Global Telecommunications Conference; December, 1986


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‘Effects of solar transit in Ku-band VSAT systems’; F. Mohamadi and D.L.Lyon; IEEE

Transactions on Communications; July, 1988

‘Case Study: Pacific Communication Sciences, Inc.”; MIT Enterprise Forum (San Diego);

13 June 1990

‘Technical Advances and Challenges in Wireless Communications’; M. Lubin and D. Lyon;

Telecommunications; December, 1990

‘Digital Voice and Mobile Systems”; IEEE Communication Society Meeting (San Diego);

25 June 1991

‘A survey of data communications techniques’; Schlumberger Systems Lecture Series;

April, 1992

‘Telecommunications technology overview’; UCSD Connect Conference on Issues

Affecting the Growing Communications Company; March, 1993

‘Voice compression technologies’; DDI (Japan) Seminar Series; May, 1993

‘Cellular digital packet data’; IEEE Hot Interconnects Conference; 1994

‘Smartphones and CDPD’; CTIA Conference opening plenary session; March, 1994

‘What digital engineers need to know about wireless communications’; University Video

Communications Distinguished Lecture Series VII; May, 1994

‘The convergence of wireless and the Internet’; panel discussion at CTIA Conference

plenary session; March, 1995

‘Launch of the Personal Handy Phone System in Japan’; IEEE Conference on Personal,

Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications; September, 1995 (invited keynote speaker)

‘Telewars: the battle for the telephone market’; Emerging Markets in Telecommunications

Conference; May, 1996 (moderator)

‘Trends in digital wireless communications’; Device Research Conference; June, 1996

(Plenary speaker)

‘Overview of digital wireless communication’; Proceedings of SPIE; October, 1996

‘What is required to meet wireless consumer demands’; Dataquest Conference on the

Wireless Future; January, 1997

‘Select topics in telecommunications technology’; MIT Executive Short Course for Chief

Network Officers; May, 1995, 1996, & 1997

‘Personal networking: integrating smart devices’; UCSD Connect & SDTC Conference on

Evolving Markets in Telecommunications; June, 1999 (moderator, organizer and speaker)


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‘Introduction to the Bluetooth standard’; SD IEEE Communications Society; March, 2000

‘Comparing short range wireless technologies’; panel discussion at Futuretech Forum at the

University of Michigan Business School; January, 2001

“Wireless LANs and PANs’; panel discussion at the Headliner event of the San Diego

Telecom Council; July, 2001

‘The future of wireless personal area networking’; Pervasive Computing Outlook;

December, 2001

‘The Lessons Learned in Startup Companies’; Executive Speaker Series – Wharton

Executive MBA West Program; January, 2002

‘Bluetooth – Standard, products, and applications’; Joint session of the SD IEEE

Communications Society and Signal Processing Society; February, 2002

‘What is Bluetooth?’; Albuquerque IEEE chapter invited speaker; March, 2002


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