Michael Lebby is an accomplished Elite Expert witness with IMS ExpertServices. He was born in 1961, London, UK, and is an Anglo-American entrepreneur and intrapreneur in the fields of optoelectronics/photonics electronics and semiconductors. He holds over 450 issued international patents in photonics and electronics, that have been derived from over 200 issued USPTO utility patents. He has been cited by the USPTO to be in the most prolific 75 inventors in the USA from 1988-1997. He is an accomplished technical expert witness with over 60 IP/litigation cases, 10 trials, 30 depositions, and many expert reports/declarations.
Dr. Lebby worked at AT&T Bell Labs (1985-1989) in photonics and drove the development of the VCSEL diode laser at Motorola in the 1990s (which is now used in laser mice, 3D sensing/FaceID in mobile phones, optical interconnects; where volumes of the laser are over 1B units today). From 2005-2010 he led the USA trade association in optoelectronics (OIDA) and represented the optoelectronics industry on Capitol Hill. He has run technical start-ups and currently is CEO of Lightwave Logic (LWLG: OTCQB). He is currently a technical expert to the European Commission. He is a Fellow member of IEEE and OSA and has been a member of the London Guild of Spectacle Makers.
