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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
 
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Healthcare Device Engineering Expert
 
Medical Device Technology Expert
 
Healthcare Product Expert
 
Medical System Expert
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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

 

 
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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