and Technical Support Services contract.
18. The SAIC contract was with NASA, and during the time. Herman was employed by
SAIC, Herman worked on the contract at NASA's Langley Research Center (ld., ý 3).
19. Herman's work through SAIC was directly related to his doctoral dissertation
(Herman Ex. 2005, 14). 1
20. One of Herman's dissertation advisors was Barnes, who worked for NASA at
Langley, and who apparently worked on the same contract at the time of the events (ld., 16).
21. Herman testified that on 12 March 1998, while working on his dissertation, he alone
conceived of the invention', entitled "Method and Apparatus for Producing a Coherent Terahertz
Source" (Herman Ex. 2003, 14).
22. On 18 March 1998, Herman prepared a paper describing his conception (referred to
as the invention disclosure document - "IDD") (Herman Ex. 2006) which was notarized 24
March 1998 (Herman Ex. 2003, 18).
23. On 17 March 1998 Herman disclosed the invention to Gary E. Halama (Halama).
24. Halarna testified that Herman described to him an idea for a phase matching
technique in gallium phosphide (GaP) to produce terahertz radiation using non-linear material
characteristics (Herman Ex. 2017, 15).
25. Halama testified that Herman described certain equations and graphs to him that were
the same as those disclosed in the notarized IDD (Herman Ex. 2017, IT 6-7).
26. Halama further testified that Herman drew a dispersion curve for GaP (ld., 111).
' "The invention" conceived on 12 March 1998 does not apparently include all 32 counts.
For example, Hennan later testified that at least counts 25 and 26 were conceived during the
week of January 8-15, 1999 (Herman Ex. 2021 at 40-43).
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