Team Medical-Bringing New Medical Products to Life Logo
    Team Medical, LLC • 300 15th Street • Boulder, CO 80302 • Phone:  303-546-6400

Contact us at Team@TeamMedical.us
Consulting Services:
Medical Device Technology and
Healthcare Product Expert Witness
Expert Witness for Patent and Other Litigation

 
Warren P. Heim, P.E. – Medical Device Technology Expertise from over three decades of hands-on medical device engineering and R&D and over 25 U.S. patents
 
Warren Photo
 
 
Healthcare Device Engineering Expert
 
Medical Device Technology Expert
 
Healthcare Product Expert
 
Medical System Expert
Rendering
 
Aorta Flow  Simulation
Velocity spectrum
Automated Medical Device Assembly

 

 
 
Give me a call when you need a real hands-on expert on medical device technology and development.
 
My knowledge and experience from past and current medical product development activities enable me to respond quickly and efficiently to clients' needs.

Have prepared over a dozen declarations for medical device intellectual property cases including district court and IPR proceedings

 

Very comfortable with depositions and other testimony

 

Prepared hundreds of readily understood reports and briefings on technical topics for non-technical audiences including as

 
 

•

Medical Device Technology and Healthcare Product Engineering Expert Witness

 

•

Medical Device Expert for Patent Infringement and other Medical Device IP Litigation

 

•

Medical Device Intellectual Property Assessment

 

•

Medical Device Failure Analysis

 

•

Medical Device R&D Expert

 

•

Biomedical Engineering Expert Witness

 
 
 

 
Medical Device Engineering Expert Witness for Patent and Other Litigation
 
 

•

How unique is the product?

 

•

What design attributes or operating characteristics distinguish a product from others?

 

•

Validity Analysis

 

•

Infringement Analysis

 

•

Novelty Analysis

 

•

Obviousness Analysis

 

•

Capability Assessment

 

•

Alternative Design Feasibility


 

 
Hands-on experience produces accurate, insightful, timely, and cost-effective results for you.

 
 
 
Over 30 years of Medical Device Research and Development Experience that includes Medical Product Engineering, Production, Regulatory Compliance, and Patent Preparation and Review.
 
inventor on over 30 U.S. Medical Device Patents – well versed in patent prosecution and review and how R&D feeds into Medical Device IP strategy and filings.
 
Broad engineering skills and experience: mechanical, electronic, software, systems, and biomedical engineering, all have been applied to medical devices.
 
Experience designing around patents provides valuable perspective as a Patent Litigation Expert Witness regarding medical patent infringement and claim interpretation.
 
Medical Device Expert work includes surgical instruments, drug delivery, patient monitoring, cardiology, signal processing, and algorithm
 
 


 
 

•

Product experience includes operating room, critical care, therapeutic, diagnostics, and monitoring

 

•

Over 100 medical device engineering projects have been done

 

•

Hospital and alternate care site products

 

•

Mechanical, electronic, software systems

 

•

Domestic and overseas

 

 
rod_of_asclepius_18x80

Whatever happened to that guy you knew who loved science and technology and could explain anything?
 
He has been doing medical device R&D for over 30 years and has designed and evaluated over 100 products.
 
When you need to know the real story behind medical device design and operation call Team Medical at 303-546-6400 and ask for Warren P. Heim, P.E.

 
Cogent reports and briefings get to the core issues

Prepared hundreds of readily understood reports and briefings on technical topics for non-technical audiences including

 
 

•

Legal Professionals

 

•

Business Executives

 

•

Investors

 

•

State and Federal Regulatory Agencies

 

•

Legislators

 

•

White House Staff


 
 

Over 30 years of experience to give you facts
Medical Device Expert Engineering and Analysis


 

•

Decades of Medical Device R&D and patent experience enables efficient understanding of products and technology so you get facts that matter

 

•

Engineering calculations, models, simulations, prototypes to evaluate and anticipate performance - when getting real facts requires real engineering I have done that work for years

 

•

Medical Device Failure Analysis

 

•

Testing, Product Tear Down, and Analysis in our laboratory

 
 
 

Context matters and my experience enables me to put facts in the correct context

 

Product research and development, engineering, and production startup experience

 
 

•

detailed technical and engineering design for products and manufacturing processes

 

•

disposable and instrument design, invasive and non-invasive: I have done them

 

•

product requirements definition: experience defining clinical environments allows identifying product differences based on use

 

•

design reviews: detailed design review experience enables understanding critical distinctions between product designs and patent claims

 

Due diligence by reviewing or assessing technology, products, or businesses

 
 

•

technical feasibility, including using engineering analysis and laboratory testing

 

•

competitive position and business potential

 

•

intellectual property position

 

•

product development cost estimates

 

•

product development status and schedule

 

•

management and technical team requirements and skills

 

•

roadblocks to remove or miracles that need to occur before success can happen

 

•

probability of technical success (product produced at target cost) assessment

 
 


A short list of example products includes:

 

Surgical instruments

 
 

•

orthopaedic instruments, including RF ablation, cutting, and tissue shrinkage

 

•

monopolar and bipolar electrosurgical instruments and generators

 

•

minimally invasive surgical instruments

 

•

endoscopes -- cardiac, vascular, urologic

 

Cardiac and vascular care and monitoring

 
 

•

intracardiac catheters

 

•

multiparameter hemodynamic monitor

 

•

cardiac output

 

•

left ventricular assist device (LVAD)

 

Patient monitoring and support

 
 

•

noninvasive blood glucose meters

 

•

pulse oximeters

 

•

spirometers

 

•

implantable bioartificial pancreas

 

•

home hemodialysis system

 

Drug delivery systems

 
 

•

hospital infusion pumps

 

•

ambulatory infusion pumps

 

•

miniature infusion pumps


 

 

Medical Device R&D Expert Capabilities

Warren P. Heim Medical Device and R&D Expert Brochure (pdf file)

Call now for a free consultation. I love solving problems and a telephone call may be all that you need.



 Contact us

    Team Medical, LLC
    300-15th Street
    Boulder, CO 80302

    (303) 546-6400
  Team@TeamMedical.us

Team Medical is managed by Warren P. Heim, P.E., inventor on over 30 issued U.S. patents, successful entrepreneur with over 30 years of medical device experience, who has provided consulting services to many firms, including Abbott Laboratories, C.R. Bard, Baxter, Edwards Life Sciences, Linvatec (division of Conmed), Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, Johnson & Johnson, Smith+Nephew, Valleylab (Covidien)-Medtronic. Liberal arts and engineering degrees from Dartmouth College in 1973, 1974, 1975
Warren on Pawnee Peak Summit