Jean Renard Ward
Areas of Expertise: Information Technology
MIT-educated technical and software consultant. Highly experienced expert witness in patent and technology litigations. Areas of expertise include touchscreen and tablet hardware, capacitive touch and proximity sensors, styli/electronic pens, haptics; gestures, user interfaces (UIs), touchscreen graphics, and accessibility user interfaces (blind/visually-impaired); digital
rights management (DRM), digital encryption (PKI), and malware detection; programming/coding, source-code analysis, trade-secret analysis, and firmware. Public speaking experience for non-technical audiences. Author of technical reference bibliography (see www.ruetersward.com) cited by USPTO, academic dissertations and technical publications by others. Clients include Google, Samsung, Ericsson, Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, and Lucent Technologies. Granted multiple US patents, additional published patent applications.