Charles A. Kohl, Ph.D.

IP Litigation Consulting

Dr. Charlie Kohl is a manager specializing in intellectual property litigation at Elysium Digital. Charlie's work has included an expert report on misappropriation of trade secrets; infringement analysis of software products in the iOS, Android, Linux, and Windows operating systems; damages analysis; design of workarounds for potential infringement; and forensic analysis and reporting. Charlie's doctoral research involved rule-based systems for the interpretation of natural images.

Prior to joining Elysium Digital, Dr. Kohl managed software development efforts as CTO, Chief Architect, and Vice President of Engineering at a number of early and mid-stage companies. At Open Learning Exchange, he developed open-source software for the creation and sharing of global K-12 educational materials. At X-Rite, he managed the development of over 15 standalone and enterprise products for color management. At Context Media, he was responsible for the design and development of enterprise content management, and at Amerinex Applied Imaging, he led the contract development of image understanding software for DARPA, as well as the creation of commercial software tools for image processing.

Selected Publications

"Solving Diverse Image Understanding Problems Using the Image Understanding Environment." John Dolan, Charles Kohl, Richard Lerner, Joseph Mundy, Terrance Boult, and J. Ross Beveridge. In Proc. DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, February 1996.
"Towards a Unified IU Environment: Coordination of Existing IU Tools with the IUE." Charles Kohl, Jeffery Hunter, and Cynthia Loiselle. In Proc. 5th International Conference on Computer Vision, June 1995.
"A Stellar Application of the IUE: Solar Feature Extraction." Charles Kohl, et al. In Proc. DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, January 1994.