Nenad Medvidović, PhD

Summary of Qualifications

• Internationally known in the computer science research community for his extensive scientific contributions in the fields of software engineering and distributed systems over the last two decades.
• Has been deposed and testified at trial numerous times, primarily in patent infringement cases.
• Has authored hundreds of scholarly works, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, magazine articles, and other publications.
• Has received millions of dollars in grants from corporations and government agencies for scientific research.
• Has taught dozens of software classes and seminars at universities, companies, and government agencies.
• Received the National Science Foundation CAREER (2000) award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2005), the IBM Real-Time Innovation Award (2007), and the USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2010).
• Served as Program Co-Chair of the 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011).
• Co-authored the ICSE 1998 paper titled “Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution,” which was recognized as that conference’s Most Influential Paper.
• Co-authored “A Classification and Comparison Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages,” which was the single most-cited journal article in software engineering published in 2000.
• Co-authored “Software Architecture: Foundations, Theory, and Practice,” a widely-used textbook on software architectures, and has edited several other books.
• Member of ACM, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society.
• Received his Ph.D. from the Department of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine in 1999.

Areas of Expertise

• Software architecture

  Architectural styles (client-server, P2P, pub-sub), software connectors (IPC mechanisms, FTP, SOAP), deployment architectures, systems engineering, systems-of-systems, run-time adaptation, self-managing systems, reliability estimation, quality-of-service properties

• Engineering and design processes

  Requirements engineering (elicitation, specification, evolution), design and development paradigms (waterfall, spiral, agile), COTS integration, component-based development, design patterns, cost estimation, domain-specific software engineering, architecture recovery, model checking, modeling and simulation

• Distributed systems

  Web applications (Apache, Python, PHP, REST), cloud computing, grid systems, decentralized computing (MapReduce, tile assembly model), email (IMAP, POP, SMTP), encryption (TLS, SSL, SSH), network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP), data distribution and storage (RDBMS, SQL), ultra-large-scale systems

• Languages, platforms, and frameworks

  Operating systems (UNIX, Linux, Windows, Mac OS), middleware (CORBA, Java EE, .NET), object-oriented languages (Java, C/C++), development frameworks and compilers (Eclipse, Visual Studio), aspect-oriented languages, architecture description languages (UML, AADL, DSLs)

• Mobile, handheld, and wireless systems

  Smartphones and tablets (Android, iOS, Java ME, Brew), disconnected operation, energy consumption estimation, unmanned autonomous systems, embedded real-time systems, resource-constrained computing

Litigation Experience

• In the Matter of Certain Electronic Imaging Devices

  Oct 2012 – Mar 2013
  Jurisdiction: International Trade Commission
  Counsel: Goodwin Procter LLP
  Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property – Patent

• Finjan Inc. vs. Symantec Corp.

  Mar 2012 – Dec 2012
  Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
  Counsel: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
  Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property – Patent

• Finjan Inc. vs. Websense, Inc.

  Sept 2011 – Dec 2012
  Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
  Counsel: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
  Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property – Patent

• j2 Global Communications Inc. vs. Easylink Services International Corp.

  Apr 2011 – Dec 2012
  Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  Counsel: King & Spalding LLP (until 10/12) and Perkins Coie LLP (since 10/12)
  Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property – Patent

• Gabriel Technologies Corp. and Trace Technologies LLC vs. Qualcomm Inc., Snaptrack Inc., and Norman Krasner

  Oct 2010 – Sept 2012
  Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  Counsel: Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
  Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract

• Inter Partes Reexamination of U.S. Patent No. 7,366,919

  Sept 2011 – Dec 2011
  Jurisdiction: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  Counsel: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
  Nature of Suit: Intellectual Property – Patent

• Marla Tidenberg vs. Bidz.com Inc.

  Jun 2009 – Apr 2010
  Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  Counsel: Gordon & Rees LLP
  Nature of Suit: Class Action