William B. Sweet

William B. Sweet, COO, Inflexion Point Analytics
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billsweet@ip-strategy.com

Bill Sweet is COO of Inflexion Point Analytics, LLC, which provides expert support to
Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC, an intellectual property investment bank involved in
buying, selling and investing in strategic IP assets and IP-intensive businesses.
Inflexion Point Analytics assembles and manages highly focused teams of
technical experts, market analysts and patent search specialists on a project-by-
project basis to support Inflexion Point Strategy on both buy-side and sell-side
engagements.

Prior to founding Inflexion Point Analytics , Bill served as CEO of a venture-backed
software company involving secure access controls for Internet distribution of
electronic content. Bill’s 25 years of experience include some of the landmarks of
Silicon Valley business history.

From 1982 to 1998, Bill was the founder and CEO of Technology Marketing
Consultants, one of the country’s leading providers of marketing and new product
development expertise to Silicon Valley clients, including Teklicon, Synthesis,
Kinetics, National Semiconductor, Excelan, Cisco Systems, ITT Information
Systems, Voysys, Centigram, Atalla, and Tolerant Systems.

For example, during the 1990’s, Bill led a large team of consultants for client
National Semiconductor in the development and marketing of secure
microcomputer chips for electronic security and digital rights management
applications. Bill brought in hardware, software and cryptographic security experts,
built a business plan, staffed a 45-person business unit, and then took the
technology to market, obtaining large orders from the U.S. Department of Defense
for Internet security PCMCIA cards, and from Circuit City.

As a seasoned expert witness, Bill has opined on a wide range of intellectual
property issues such as the effectiveness of design-around alternatives in avoiding
patent infringement and the impact of uncited prior art on patent validity.
Bill has managed project teams for clients in litigation involving e-commerce,
computer and microcomputer patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation
claims, and marketing and product development disputes. His clients have
included Mitsubishi, Dell, Tandy/Radio Shack, Toshiba, Zenith, and AT&T. In the
series of patent infringement suits filed by Texas Instruments against the personal
computer industry in the mid-1980’s, he was the project manager on the defense
side and devised a new concept in patent lawsuits—a sharable library of prior art
that each defendant could contribute to and use in its defense and settlement
negotiations, but which was legally unavailable to the plaintiff in case any defendant
settled out of court. Bill’s team produced a substantial amount of prior art that was
crippling to the asserted claims.

Bill served as chief expert witness for Data General in a major antitrust suit brought
against the company by Fairchild in the early 1980s. He recruited and managed a
team of experts that sifted through the mountains of discovery evidence to find
critical facts and formulate technical and marketing case theories that eventually
led to a settlement that was millions of dollars less for Data General than it
otherwise would have been.

Bill began his career with General Electric and has held management positions at
Concurrent Computer, National Semiconductor, Zilog and Computer Automation.

Bill earned a BS (with honors) in Electrical Engineering and a MS/MBA in Industrial
Administration from Purdue University

Inflexion Point Team