Expert Witness &
Legal Support
Dr. Lawrence M. Boyd provides expert witness and legal-support services in matters involving medical device design, intellectual property, device testing, risk management, and accepted industry practice.
With nearly 70 U.S. patents issued and an extensive background in education, he can explain complex technical issues clearly to both legal and nontechnical audiences.
WHY DR. BOYD
Industry substance. Teaching-based clarity.
Dr. Boyd's value in legal matters comes from the combination of hands-on industry experience and an educator's ability to make complex technical issues understandable. He has spent more than 30 years working across medical device design, testing, design controls, risk management, regulatory approval, and commercialization.
As a Professor of the Practice at Clemson University, he teaches and mentors students through the same frameworks and deliverables used in industry — including design controls, intellectual property, risk assessment, biocompatibility, sterilization, human factors, labeling, and documentation.
This combination allows him to evaluate the substance of complex device-development issues and explain them clearly to attorneys, judges, juries, and technical stakeholders.
AREAS OF ENGAGEMENT
Where Dr. Boyd's experience is most relevant for your case.
Engagements are accepted based on matter fit, technical relevance, and the absence of conflicts.
Intellectual Property & Technical Analysis
Dr. Boyd's innovation record includes nearly 70 issued U.S. patents and extensive experience working with engineers, surgeons, and patent counsel.
He provides technical analysis and expert witness support in legal matters involving medical device patents, product design, invention history, prior art, claim charts, design alternatives, and the relationship between technology and design features and claimed inventions.
Design Controls, Risk Management & Development Process
Many medical device disputes center on the development process itself. Dr. Boyd evaluates design history files, design inputs and outputs, verification and validation activities, trace matrices, risk analysis, design changes, documentation, and development decision-making. His experience leading and teaching medical device development provides a practical basis for explaining how design-control and risk-management principles are applied in real product-development settings.
Medical Device Product Liability
Dr. Boyd provides medical device engineering analysis in matters involving product design, development process, testing, risk management, and product performance.
His background is especially relevant where questions arise about whether a device was reasonably designed, whether hazards and failure modes were appropriately identified, whether risk controls were adequate, whether verification and validation testing addressed the right questions, and whether the development process reflected accepted medical device industry practice.
Dr. Boyd’s experience includes decades of hands-on work with design controls, risk assessment, testing strategy, regulatory-facing development, and cross-functional product decisions.
Testing, Verification & Validation
Dr. Boyd provides engineering analysis in matters involving medical device testing, verification and validation, performance claims, failure analysis, and the use of testing to support product-development decisions.
His review may include test methods, protocols, acceptance criteria, test results, design inputs, risk analyses, failure investigations, and the relationship between testing and the device’s intended use.
Dr. Boyd’s perspective is grounded in decades of hands-on medical device development experience, including mechanical testing, animal-study planning, verification and validation strategy, design controls, risk management, and regulatory-facing development work.
Orthopaedics, Spine, Sports Medicine, Biomaterials & Biologics
Industry experience across orthopaedic and neurosurgical devices, peripheral nerve stimulation, bone growth stimulators, spine technologies, sports medicine, foot and ankle implants, biomaterials and biologics, and technologies related to the repair and regeneration of bone, tendon, cartilage, and intervertebral disc.
Dr. Boyd’s experience is relevant in matters involving implants, instruments, biologic repair technologies, spinal devices, orthopaedic fixation, and related medical technologies.
Clear Technical Communication for Legal Audiences
Expert witness work requires more than technical knowledge. It requires the ability to explain complex issues clearly, credibly, and at the right level for the audience.
Dr. Boyd has taught in multiple academic and professional settings. His teaching has reached undergraduate students, graduate students, physicians, entrepreneurs, industry teams, and professional audiences.
That breadth of teaching experience reinforces his ability to explain complex medical device issues to attorneys, judges, juries, and other technical or nontechnical audiences.
WHO WE WORK WITH
Retained by legal teams handling complex medical device matters.
•Law Firms
•IP Attorneys
•Product-liability attorneys
•Corporate legal departments
•Plaintiff and Defense counsel
RETAIN DR. BOYD
Discuss a matter, confidentially.
Initial inquiries typically include the nature of the matter, the technology involved, the jurisdiction, key dates, and any potential conflicts. Dr. Boyd will respond to determine whether the engagement is an appropriate fit.