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Chris Furlough is a Director in the Specialty Services group of Ocean Tomo, a part of J.S. Held. He combines technical excellence, patent expertise, and business acumen to partner with in-house corporate intellectual property (IP) groups, outside counsel, and financial institutions to dig into complex systems. Chris provides technical service support related to software/firmware development and reverse engineering. Chris has over 30 years of experience in embedded firmware extraction and analysis, software code analysis, coding/processing firmware extraction and analysis, system and applications software analysis, and enterprise data flow across various programming languages.
His experience across software applications, including processor security, operating systems, networking, user interface, and device drivers across a diverse array of products and software, including mobile devices, tablets, set-top boxes, headphones, HDTVs, slot machines, video game consoles, point of sale terminals, smart boards, smart speaker systems, cyber security software, and many others, has resulted in deep technical understanding.
Chris is skilled at partitioning or distributing system functions across various hardware blocks and firmware and software within devices or other products. His ability to understand and analyze these devices and systems requires a system-level approach where hardware analysis (such as circuit or process analysis) is complemented by system-level analysis, such as functional testing, firmware analysis, and software analysis. He understands how hardware and firmware/software work together to perform desired functions or tasks, which is an important enabler in unlocking the value of the intellectual property in the systems.
He is regularly called upon to conduct product teardowns, functional testing, firmware extraction and analysis, and system and software analysis.
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