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Expert, and his company, are a virtual, multi-national company primarily engaged in consulting on, and execution of, intellectual property licensing programs. As Certified Management Consultants, their primary market thrust has been toward licensing and commercialization since 1991. They also provide the same zeal and experience to the strategic planning and general management consulting projects they undertake for clients in a variety of industries.

Current and past clients include Chevron, UNOCAL, the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Energy and Justice, other major U.S. Federal laboratory entities, the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center, and the Small Business Development Center of the University of Houston (UH). They also work with individual inventors and conducts litigation support for attorneys on patent infringement or other cases. His company has consulted for as many as 50 to 100 inventors and entrepreneurs each year. The extent of work for a client can vary. It can be as complex as their long-term contract with UNOCAL, in which the company managed UNOCAL’s entire portfolio of 40 to 50 out-licensable technologies and executed the program with limited legal and technical support. It could also be as simple as advising an individual inventor how to commercialize his/her invention with the inventor doing most of the execution or acting as a sounding board for the inventor. They also perform strategic planning or general management consulting tasks depending on the needs of the client.


Expert was a long term independent contractor to the UNOCAL Corporation(>10 years). He handles UNOCAL's third party licensing program in its entirety. Expert's work included marketing, license negotiating, license writing, collecting royalties and enforcing license terms. When Chevron acquired UNOCAL, expert continued as an independent contractor in charge of the UNOCAL portfolio for 10 years for Chevron.He has worked on licensing and product commercialization with several small companies, individual inventors and entreprenreurs. His company will coach, execute or provide both to satisfy the wishes of the client. Expert's company has provided litigation support for several law firms on licensing practices and license value.Company has provided commercialization and licensing seminars at the University of Houston Institute for Enterprise Excellence.Expert, who is a formally trained mediator and arbitrator, has done mediation for the BBB and courts of Houston and arbitration for the State of Texas.