Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc.

Filing 229

MOTION for Summary Judgment OF INVALIDITY OF US PATENT NO. 6,613,101 by Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc.. (Attachments: #1 Affidavit Declaration of Alexander Solo in Support, #2 Exhibit 1, #3 Exhibit 2, #4 Exhibit 3, #5 Exhibit 4, #6 Exhibit 5, #7 Exhibit 6, #8 Exhibit 7, #9 Text of Proposed Order, #10 Affidavit Declaration of John Levy in Support, #11 Exhibit 1, #12 Exhibit 2)(Solo, Alexander) (Additional attachment(s) added on 7/2/2010: # 13 Text of Proposed Order) (sm, ).

Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc.

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JOHN LEVY, Ph.D.
505 Mesa Road, Suite 1, P.O. Box 1419, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 415 663-1818 http://johnlevyexpert.com [e-mail]

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE Dr. Levy is a technical leader in the computer, software and hard disk industry with over thirty years experience; his Ph.D. in Computer Science is from Stanford University. His areas of expertise include: Bus design ­ system bus - local area network ­ LAN ­ bus bridge Standards - ATA ­ ATAPI ­ IDE - 1394 FireWire I-Link - SCSI - Futurebus Computer design ­ CPU ­ multiprocessor ­ cache ­ memory controller Hard disk - storage networks ­ SAN ­ NAS Internet protocol ­ http ­ cookies Software - firmware - embedded systems Operating systems - file systems ­ input/output ­ I/O controller Simulation - performance - benchmark He is an inventor on seven patents and has authored several published technical papers. He has been disclosed as an expert witness in over 30 cases, has testified in deposition and at trial. He has been a technical advisor to two Federal District Court judges. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1999 to Present John Levy Consulting & 1982 to 1992 Management Consultant Management of engineering of computers, software and storage devices. General business consulting for small firms, both for-profit and nonprofit. Expert witness in intellectual property and contract dispute cases. 1993 to 1998 Quantum Corporation Director, Systems Engineering

Hired and managed an engineering organization of 27 people; Made Quantum a leader in hard disk interface technology - ATA/33, /66, SCSI-160M; Developed software/hardware tools for firmware & system validation; Led disk drive performance enhancements in caching, system performance modeling & simulation, Windows 98/NT software drivers. 1979 to 1982 Apple Computer, Inc. Engineering Supervisor

Hardware & firmware development of local area network, Lisa development team; design of hardware/firmware interpreter for Pascal p-machine.

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JOHN LEVY, Ph.D.
505 Mesa Road, Suite 1, P.O. Box 1419, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 415 663-1818 http://johnlevyexpert.com [e-mail]

1977 to 1979 Tandem Computer, Inc. Senior Engineer

Advanced development of next-generation multi-processor systems; work on rollback-recovery in distributed databases. 1972 to 1977 Digital Equipment Corp. Consulting Engineer

Development of computer hardware & operating system software; I/O subsystems development; bus design for high-speed I/O channels and for minicomputer systems. EDUCATION Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 1973 M.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1966 B. Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1965 LITIGATION RELATED EXPERIENCE ­ Please see separate summary PUBLICATIONS "If Extreme Programming is Good Management, What Were We Doing Before?" EDN Magazine, November 13, 2003. "Twelve Things to Ask Your Software Development Team," ComputerWorld Online, September 22, 2003. "A File Structure for Non-Erasable Media," with Wayne Wang, Ninth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, pp. 72-76, 1988. [also published as "An Operating System-Independent WORM File System" in Software for Optical Storage, Meckler Corp., 1989, pp. 23-54] "Small Image Retrieval System," with Wayne Wang, Ricoh Technical Report No. 16, pp. 93-95, 1987. "Buses, the Backbone of Computer Structures," chapter 11 of Computer Engineering, ed. by Bell et al., Digital Press, 1978. "Computing with Multiple Microprocessors," (Ph.D. Thesis) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Report No. 161, 1973

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JOHN LEVY, Ph.D.
505 Mesa Road, Suite 1, P.O. Box 1419, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 415 663-1818 http://johnlevyexpert.com [e-mail]

U.S. PATENTS Patent Number Year Issued 4,245,303 4,229,791 4,232,366 4,045,781 1981 1980 1980 1977 Title Memory for Data Processing System with Command and Data Buffering Distributed Arbitration Circuitry for Data Processing System Bus for a Data Processing System with Overlapped Sequences Memory Module with Selectable Byte Addressing for Digital Data Processing System Drive for Connection to Multiple Controllers in a Digital Data Secondary Storage Facility Secondary Storage Facility for Data Processing Systems Drive Condition Detecting Circuit for Secondary Storage Facilities in Data Processing Systems

4,007,448

1977

3,999,163 3,911,400

1976 1975

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & AWARDS Association for Computing Machinery Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ­ Computer Society National Lecturer on bus design Forensic Expert Witness Association UNIVERSITY-LEVEL TEACHING University of San Francisco, Fromm Institute 2008 & 2006 The Digital Revolution in the Home 2009, 2007, 2005 Computers - the Inside Story 2006 High Tech Business in the Era of Globalization San Francisco State University 1980-81 Computer Input/Output Architecture, upper-division course

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