Gds Expert Witnesses
Gds expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on gds. The gds expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Electronics, Intellectual Property, and Travel & Tourism.
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David Chapman
Electronic Design Automation/Semiconductor Expert
San Jose, California
Intellectual Property, Electronics
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Software, Electronic Design Automation, EDA, Semiconductor, GDS, GDSII, OASIS
David Chapman is an experienced software developer who has written over 1,300,000 lines of code in C/C++ and other languages. He has written software for many areas of semiconductor electronic design automation: mask data preparation, design rule checking, circuit extraction, circuit delay characterization, logic synthesis, physical synthesis, placement, routing, Intellectual Property identification, and transistor level layout generation.
He has over 20 years of consulting experience and was the chair of the Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley in 2018-2019. He has 12 U.S. patents granted.
His expert witness work to date has focused on discovery/analysis of semiconductor layouts (GDS/GDSII, OASIS), especially for patent infringement. His sharp eyes plus his understanding of semiconductor processing and design tools mean that if it's there, he can find it.
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Michael F Stone, CPCU, CTIE
Travel & Tech Executive: Operations & Distribution
Gestation, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Travel & Tourism
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Travel Agency, Tour Operator, Travel Technology, Airline, Cruise, OTA, Host Agency, Independent Contractor, Standard of Care, Duty of Care, Contract Breach, Travel Fraud, Fiduciary Duty, Seller of Travel, Fulfillment Dispute, Travel Insurance, Hotel, Forensic Analysis, Merchant of Record, GDS
Areas of Expertise
• Travel Industry & Tourism Standards: Standard operating procedures (SOPs), industry standard of care, duty of care, fiduciary duties, consumer disclosures, and merchant-of-record (MOR) compliance.
• Travel Creation, Pricing & Sales Lifecycle: Product manufacturing, packaging, dynamic pricing infrastructure, distribution, marketing, and omni-channel sales (online, B2B and B2C networks, and brick-and-mortar) for airlines, cruise lines, and tour packages.
• Travel Sellers & Host Agency Networks: Traditional retail travel agencies, Host Agencies, Online Travel Agencies (OTAs), independent consultant (IC) programs, independent contractor agreements, commission/override structures, and consortia networks.
• Travel Technology & Distribution Systems: Global Distribution Systems (GDS), central reservation systems (CRS), booking engines, API integrations, data infrastructure, and proprietary travel management software.
• Risk Management & Liability: Travel insurance stru...
