Dr. Christopher M Daft
San Francisco, CA 94115
Office: 415-800-3734
Award winning, Oxford Educated scientist whose areas of expertise include medical imaging, electronics, semiconductors, medical devices, sensors, MEMS, signal processing and image processing.
- Dr Daft has deposition and trial testimony experience including district court, ITC and PTAB matters.
- Extensive Intellectual Property experience including patent development, analysis, licensing, and litigation.
- Serial inventor holding 27 U.S. Patents with 16 pending.
- Diverse industry experience including multi-nationals such as GE, Medtronic, Fujifilm, Samsung and Siemens as well as several start-ups.
- Well published.
- Winner of grants from National Institute of Health.
- Extensive international consulting experience.
- IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Senior Member since 2004.
- Three years’ experience teaching electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois.
Holds BA and MA in Physics from Oxford University as well as a Doctorate from Oxford in Materials Science.
- Design Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electromagnetic Engineering
- Electronics
- Intellectual Property
- Medical Devices
- Microelectronics
- Patents
- Physics
- Semiconductors
- Software
- Software Engineering
- Technology
- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A: BA (Oxford University, UK) with First Class Honors
MA (Oxford University, UK)
Doctorate (Oxford University, UK) - Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
- A: Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
- A: 3 years of teaching Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Frequent presentations at conferences - Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
- A: No
- Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
- A: 11
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Wearable electronics -- patent infringement
Medical imaging systems -- patent infringement
Medical devices -- patent infringement
Surgical device -- medical malpractice
Medical product liability - Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
- A: 50
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
- A: 50
- Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
- A: 13
- Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
- A: August 2023
- Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
- A: 5
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
- A: 7
- Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
- A: Consulting, patent review, reports, testimony at deposition and trial, source code review.
- Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
- A: $575
- Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
- A: $575
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
- A: $575
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
- A: $575
- Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
- A: none
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