Articles
Patent Continuations, Product Lifecycle Contraction and the Patent Scope Erosion. – A New Insight Into Patenting Trends., Southern California Law Associations Intellectual Property Spring Seminar (2007)
The Technical Requirements For Multichannel QAM RF Modulators, NCTA Technical Proceedings, New Orleans, May 3, (2004)
Delivering On The 256 QAM Promise, Invited Paper, Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, New England Chapter Meeting, October 23-24, (2002)
Specifying and Measuring Aggregate Broadband Noise of CATV Modulators and Upconverters (with Steven I. Rubin, Andre Basovich, and Brani Petrovic), Society of Cable Telecommunications Enginieers, Cable-Tec Expo, San Antonio TX, June 5-7, (2002)
Statistical Properties Of Composite Distortions In HFC Systems And Their Effects On Digital Channels, NCTA Technical Proceedings, New Orleans, LA., May 7, (2002)
TV Modulator Phase Noise- Meaningful Performance Criteria, Specification And New Measurement Methods, NCTA Technical Proceedings, Atlanta, GA, May 4, (1998)
Digital Broadband Descrambling Technology - A Compatible Access Control Solution To The Ever-Growing Consumer Electronics Interface Problem, NCTA Technical Proceedings, San Francisco, CA., June 6, (1993)
Unpublished Papers
Presentations
Patenting Strategies Under a Proposed First-To-File Patent System, Statement at the Federal Trade Commission's Hearings on The Operation of IP Markets (2009)
The Perfect Storm of Patent Reform?, Fenwick & West Lecture Series Inaugural Symposium, UC Davis School of Law, November 7 (2008)
Digital Media Server for Multiple Digital TV Appliances Utilizing Native Signals Carried on Coaxial Home Wiring Networks, U.S. Pub. No. 20080046947, February 21, (2008)
Memorandum of Amicus Curiae Pro-Se in Opposition to USPTO's Motion to Strike Exhibits, Tafas/GSK v. Dudas et al. U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. Case No. 1:07-cv-846, Doc. 271, February 5, (2008)
Brief of Amicus Curiae Pro-Se in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment,, Tafas/GSK v. Dudas et al., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. Case No. 1:07-cv-846, Doc. 235, January 10, (2008)
Declaration - Exhibit 1 to Amicus Curiae Brief, Tafas/GSK v. Dudas et al., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. Case No. 1:07-cv-846, Doc. 235-2, January 10, (2008)
Defects In The Economic Impact Analysis Provided By The USPTO For Its New Claims and Continuation Rules. Appendix E to Amicus Curiae Brief, Tafas/GSK v. Dudas et al., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. Case No. 1:07-cv-846, Doc. 258-5, January 10, (2008)
New Insights and Characterization of Patenting Trends in the United States, Southern California Law Associations Intellectual Property Spring Seminar, June 8-10 (2007)
Panel Moderator 'Do Not Fix That Which is Not Broken in The US Patent System', Southern California Law Associations Intellectual Property Spring Seminar (2007)
Strategies for IP and Technology Standards, Technology Standards and Their Impact on Valuation and Licensing Revenues, Licensing Executives Society, January 10 (2006)
Comments On A Proposed Change For EuroDOCSIS Specifications, CableLabs' DOCSIS DRFI Working Group (2005)
Rational Frequency Synthesizers Employing Digital Commutators, U.S. Pat. No. 6,934,731, August 23, (2005)
The Case Against A Proposed Relaxation Of Out-Of-Band Noise And Spurious Specifications For DOCSIS Edge-QAM RF Devices, CableLabs' DOCSIS DRFI Working Group (2005)
CATV Modulator Return Loss Effects On Headend Combining Isolation, CableLabs' DOCSIS DRFI Working Group (2005)
Multichannel Digital Signal Generation Method and Apparatus, U.S. Pat. No. 6,731,757, May 4, (2004)
Measuring Composite Distortion Using A Coherent Multicarrier Signal Generator, U.S. Pat. No. 6,724,178, April 20, (2004)
A Case For Including Harmonic Distortion Components in DOCSIS’ RF Specifications For Non Aggregating Spurious Components, CableLabs' DOCSIS Ad-Hoc RF Working Group (2004)
Injection Locked Oscillator Automatic Frequency Centering Method And Apparatus (with Brani A. Petrovic), U.S. Pat. No. 6,580,330, June 17, (2003)
Getting the Biggest Bang for your IP Buck, Intellectual Property group of the San Diego Telecommunications Council (2002)
Method andApparatus For Level And Phase Control Of A Plurality Of RF Signals, U.S. Pat. No. 6,175,630, January 16, (2001)
Multichannel Digital Signal Generation Method And Apparatus, U.S. Pat. No. 6,148,320, November 14, (2000)
Injection Locked Oscillator Automatic Frequency Centering Method And Apparatus (with Brani A. Petrovic), U.S. Pat. No. 6,121,847, September 19, (2000)
Broadband Television Scrambling And Descrambling System, U.S. Pat. No. 5,864,621, January 26, (1999)
Simultaneous Multichannel Television Access Control System And Method, U.S. Pat. No. 5,754,650 (1998)
Multichannel Television Signal Scrambling And Descrambling System And Method, U.S. Pat. No. 5,430,799 (1995)
Ex Parte Letter in FCC Notice Of Proposed Rules on Consumer Electronics Compatibility, ET Docket No. 93-7 (1994)
Reply Comments to FCC Notice Of Proposed Rules on Consumer Electronics Compatibility, ET Docket No. 93-7 (1994)
Comments submitted to FCC Notice Of Proposed Rules on Consumer Electronics Compatibility, ET Docket No. 93-7 (1994)
Determination Of Time Of Execution Of Predetermined Data Processing Routing In Relation To Occurrence Of Prior Externally Observable Event (with Roy A. Griffin, III; James N. Esserman; Steven E. Anderson; and Steven R. Hart), U.S. Pat. No. 5,249,294 (1993)
Supplemental Reply Comments to FCC Notice Of Inquiry on Consumer Electronics Compatibility Rules, ET Docket No. 93-7 (1993)
Reply Comments to FCC Notice Of Inquiry on Consumer Electronics Compatibility Rules, ET Docket No. 93-7 (1993)
Comments submitted to FCC Notice Of Inquiry on Consumer Electronics Compatibility Rules, ET Docket No. 93-7 (1993)
Optimal Signal Synthesis For Distortion Cancelling Multicarrier Systems, U.S. Pat. No. 5,125,100 (1992)
System For Communicating Television Signals Or A Plurality Of Digital Audio Signals In A Standard Television Line Allocation (with Paul Moroney and Allen W. Shumate), U.S. Pat. No. 5,091,936 (1992)
Metering Retrieval Of Encrypted Data Stored In Customer Data Retrieval Terminal, U.S. Pat. No. 5,010,571 (1991)
Determination Of Sequential Positions Of Video Fields Derived From Film (with Edward A. Krause), U.S. Pat. No. 4,998,287 (1991)
Receiver Access Interface To Service Components In Television Channel (with Christopher J. Bennett, James M. Hobza, and Gordon K. Walker), U.S. Pat. No. 4,908,859 (1990)
Digital Audio Companding And Error Conditioning (with Gordon K. Walker, Paul Moroney, and Karl E. Moerder), U.S. Pat. No. 4,809,274 (1989)