Gamecaster®
Gamecaster, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, California, is a designer, manufacturer and supplier of virtual camera control technology for the film, television and video game industries, and an organizer and producer of video game tournaments and related television programs for broadcast worldwide in multiple media.
Management
David MacIntosh
President and CEO |
Mr. MacIntosh has over nine years of management experience with branding and identity; live event development and production; television program development, production and licensing; technology research, development and licensing; intellectual property procurement and protection; contract negotiation; corporate and securities matters; and raising capital. Under Mr. MacIntosh's leadership, Gamecaster developed and launched a legitimate brand, two world class video game tournaments, a television pilot, an eight-part television series, and three generations of Gamecaster virtual camera control technology, which enables camera operators to film within virtual environments with the precision and fluidity of real-life camera equipment. Additionally, Mr. MacIntosh developed Gamecaster's substantial intellectual property portfolio, the depth and breadth of which includes granted patents and registered trademarks encompassing domestic and international territories. Prior to founding Gamecaster, Mr. MacIntosh was the Director of Broadcast Operations at Horizon, one of the largest churches in Southern California with over one hundred organizations around the world. Prior to his position at Horizon, Mr. MacIntosh worked at the motion picture visual effects company Digital Domain, and attended the UCLA Extension Film and Television Program. In his early years, Mr. MacIntosh wrote, produced, directed and edited commercials, music videos, a documentary, an infomercial, and an independent feature film.
Mitchell Abrams
Director of IP Licensing and Alliances |
Mr. Abrams has extensive experience creating and maintaining business relationships. Prior to joining Gamecaster, Mr. Abrams was a Director of Intellectual Property Licensing at Hewlett-Packard. As a member of HP's Corporate Intellectual Property Licensing department, Mr. Abrams headed teams of senior technologists, business leaders, and legal experts to capture and monetize HP's IP. This included traditional joint opportunity "carrot" licensing programs, legally intensive assertion "stick" programs, and standards based licensing. Mr. Abrams was responsible for opportunity development, valuation, initial contact, licensing contract development, and all subsequent negotiations. Mr. Abrams also held Global Alliance Management and Supply Chain Development roles at HP in support of advanced technology and market development. Mr. Abrams received a BSME from the University of Michigan, a MBA from Colorado State University, and is a member of the Licensing Executives Society, Inc. (USA and Canada). Mr. Abrams holds four US patents.
James Jacobs
Director of Manufacturing |
Mr. Jacobs has 25 years of experience in manufacturing operations specializing in process improvement, demand flow implementation, supply chain management, strategic planning and business process cycle time improvement. Since the early 1980s, Mr. Jacobs has served in senior level management positions at ITT, Honeywell, Teledyne and AVX Kyocera. These executive level job assignments have ranged from Director of Quality Assurance to Vice-President and General Manager of North America. Mr. Jacobs received a bachelor's degree in engineering from The United States Military Academy at West Point, and a MBA from Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida.
Advisory Board
George Elliott
Mr. Elliot is the President of Elliot Animation, a full-range animation studio located in Toronto, Canada. With a staff of approximately 150, Elliott Animation is an artist owned and operated studio with a strong creative agenda and a primary, but not exclusive, focus on long-format, series-based animated television series’. Elliott Animation has worked on such productions as the 3D animated feature films Happily Never After™ and Carebears: Journey to Joke-A-Lot™, the 2D animated feature film Rescue Heroes: The Movie™, and the 3D animated TV series' Backyardigans™, Sitting Ducks™, and RollBots™.
Jericca Cleland
Ms. Cleland is the CEO of Twenty One Inc, a cross-media development, preproduction, and previsualization studio that offers services for live-action, stop-motion, and cg-animated films and other media. Prior to founding Twenty One Inc, Jericca developed as a filmmaker in the story-centric environment of Pixar Animation Studios. An experienced CG Cinematographer, she designed the filming and staging of the popular and critically acclaimed films Toy Story 2™ and Finding Nemo™. She has also worked as Cinematographer for Director-Producer Barry Sonnenfeld and designed the cinematography for the in-progress Weinstein animated feature, Escape from Planet Earth™.
IP Advisors and Counsel
Sam Khoury, Ph.D., M.B.A.
IP Licensing
Dr. Khoury has over 20 years of experience in Intellectual Property (IP) valuation and licensing. Dr. Khoury provides guidance to Gamecaster in the valuation of its IP, and the development and implementation of its IP licensing program. Dr. Khoury worked as the Senior Intangible Asset Appraiser of The Dow Chemical Company, and developed training courses on technology assessment and valuation. Dr. Khoury started his career as a researcher in the Central Research Organization, and received eight patents during his work in research, two of which moved to pilot plant scale where he supported the development of those products through the Technical Service & Development function. Dr. Khoury is a trustee of the Licensing Executive Society (LES) and served as the Chairman of the Valuation Committee. Dr. Khoury is a candidate member of the American Society of Appraisers.
Thomas Foster, Esq.
IP Attorney
Mr. Foster has over 15 years of experience in Intellectual Property law, focusing primarily on patent and trademark prosecution, patent and trademark litigation and related counseling. Mr. Foster supervises the prosecution of Gamecaster's international patent and trademark applications, and provides guidance to Gamecaster in its IP portfolio management and enforcement. Mr. Foster is registered to practice before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) as well as numerous federal and state courts. Mr. Foster is admitted to practice in California.
Patrick Bright, Esq.
IP Litigator
Mr. Bright has been licensed to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office for more than 40 years, holding license No. 24,318. Mr. Bright is licensed to appear before the PTO in all proceedings, including representing inventors, and parties challenging the inventions of others, in PTO patent reexamination proceedings, PTO patent re-issuance proceedings, and PTO trademark applications and related proceedings.
From 1976 to date, Mr. Bright has focused on patent solicitation and patent/trade secret litigation involving complex technology issues. In over 30 years of patent litigation, Mr. Bright and his firms have represented companies ranging from large multinationals such as Litton Industries, now Northrop Grumman Corp., Teledyne, Sulzer Medical, Unova, Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. and Digital Instruments, now a part of Veeco, a major manufacturer of atomic force and other scanning electron microscopes. Mr. Bright was co-counsel for an individual who obtained one of the larger damage awards for an individual patentee in Coyle v. Sega, a case which resulted in a $44 million payment for willful patent infringement. Mr. Bright was second chair in the Litton v. Honeywell patent infringement case which provided a jury verdict of $1.2 billion for willful infringement. Mr. Bright represented Litton in the US Patent and Trademark Office in successfully obtaining reissuance of this patent for Litton, strengthening the patent, before Litton sued Honeywell for infringement. Mr. Bright has also had lead responsibility in several Markman litigations (claim interpretation tried to District Courts pursuant to the Federal Circuit Markman decision) in the years since Markman issued.
Mr. Bright was co-counsel in a patent infringement suit against AT&T and Rockwell, settling with AT&T, and recovering a multi-million judgment after jury trial against Rockwell. Mr. Bright was also lead trial counsel in a case entitled Core-Vent Corp. v. Implant Innovations Inc., reported at 53 F.2d 1252 ( Fed. Cir. 1995), which is a leading Federal Circuit case on finality of judgments. Mr. Bright successfully represented an individual inventor in a patent infringement suit against Apple Computer in CD CA District Court, settling the suit for several million dollars. Mr. Bright has been principal trial and patent counsel for two corporations that were acquired in the 1990's by larger corporations for sums in excess of $400 million. Mr. Bright had principal responsibility for solicitation and enforcement of the patents of these entities.