Christian B. Hicks

Expert Testimony

Christian Hicks co-founded Elysium Digital in 1997 and served as its president until Elysium's acquisition by Stroz Friedberg in 2015. Christian has stepped back from full time employment with Elysium and now acts as an independent consultant. Christian has advised clients on more than 150 matters relating to intellectual property and computer forensics, including landmark cases such as U.S. v. Microsoft. His extensive experience as a testifying expert has included federal court testimony, numerous expert reports and affidavits, and depositions in several cases.

Before co-founding Elysium Digital, Christian worked as a consultant for the AT&T Consumer Lab, where he developed data mining techniques and researched Internet programs and protocols. He co-invented several patents on systems for unlocking remote electronic data.

Christian's undergraduate research at Princeton focused on artificial intelligence and earned him the Computer Science Senior Prize. He was also inducted into Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

Selected Publications

"Back-Propagation of User Innovations: The Open Source Compatibility Edge." C. Hicks and D. Pachamanova. Business Horizons 50 (2007): 315-324.
"Capturing Forensic Evidence When Employees Leave." TortSource 9, no. 4 (2007).
"Metamodeling with Perl and AMPL." C. Hicks and D. Pachamanova. Dr. Dobb’s Journal 30, no. 368 (2005).

Selected Patents

Remote authorization for unlocking electronic data system and method. Christian Bielefeldt Hicks and Peter Janssen Creath. US Patent 7,346,583, filed March 31, 2003, and issued March 18, 2008.
Remote authorization for unlocking electronic data system and method. Christian Bielefeldt Hicks and Peter Janssen Creath. US Patent 6,567,793, filed October 25, 1999, and issued May 20, 2003.
System and method for remote authorization for unlocking electronic data. Christian Bielefeldt Hicks and Peter Janssen Creath. US Patent 5,982,892, filed December 2, 1997, and issued November 9, 1999.

Selected Speaking Engagements

"Robotics and Intellectual Property." Christian B. Hicks. Presentation at We Robot: Getting Down To Business, Conference at Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA, April 2013.
"AOL’s Patent Portfolio: Visualization and Analysis." Christian B. Hicks. Continuing Legal Education seminar at several venues in Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA, October 2012 – March 2013.
"Big Data and the Threat to Personal Privacy." Christian B. Hicks. Continuing Legal Education seminar at Think Like a Lawyer, Talk Like a Geek Conference, Practicing Law Institute, New York, NY, November 2012.
"Best Practices and Solutions for Handling Challenges from the Massachusetts Data Security and Privacy Regulations." Christian B. Hicks. Seminar at K&L Gates, Boston, MA, June 2010.
"Navigating Source Code Escrow." Christian B. Hicks. Seminar at Fish & Richardson, Boston, MA, March 2010.
"Do You Know Where Your Confidential Information Is?" Christian B. Hicks. Seminar at Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, Cambridge, MA, October 2008.

Selected Appearances

"Experts Say Discarded Cell Phones Could Contain Loads of Sensitive Information." Christian B. Hicks and Jason H. Eaddy. CBS 2 News at 5 PM. Aired on November 17, 2014.
"iPhone Trade-In." Christian B. Hicks and Jason H. Eaddy. WCVB NewsCenter at 5. Aired on October 10, 2014.

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