Trade Secret Expert Witnesses
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What is a trade secret expert witness?
Trade secret expert witness candidates typically have backgrounds in intellectual property law (with a focus on trade secret law), economic damages, and/or forensic accounting. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may require a professional with prior expert witness testimony experience. Depending on the technology involved, experts with specific technical backgrounds, such as mechanical engineering or electrical engineering, could be called upon to support a trade secrets matter.
What types of cases require a trade secret expert witness?
Trade secrets encompass formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information that have value because they are not publicly known or easily ascertainable by anyone other than the trade secret owner. Employment contract provisions often include a restrictive covenant clause as an attempt to prevent departing employees from competing and soliciting its customers, or exposing the company’s confidential information.
Trade secret cases for which Cahn Litigation Services has located expert witnesses for have included:
- software development methodology trade secret misappropriation,
- valuation analysis in support of trade secret litigation held in a state court,
- unjust enrichment,
- patent infringement, copyright infringement, and theft of trade secrets case involving a New York corporation’s firmware,
- computer forensics support for a source code-related trade secret complex litigation,
- business practices and business information disclosure in Los Angeles,
- Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) claim,
- unfair competition, and
- confidential information exposure case in a Texas district court.
What litigation support work might a trade secret expert witness be expected to perform?
Trade secret litigation support services could include research, an expert report, arbitration, expert opinion, expert testimony and/or courtroom testimony. An economic damages expert may be called upon to provide valuation calculations such as reasonable royalty.
Cahn Litigation Services has many years of experience identifying expert witnesses that can support matters involving alleged misappropriation of trade secrets.
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Trade Secret Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Trade Secret experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Trade Secret landscape.
Expert Witness #266222
This expert is a Senior Director at a large intellectual property equity firm. This expert’s specific advantage comes from having earned both an MBA in finance as well as a JD, cum laude. This expert has deep experience in valuing intellectual property, and in calculating damages from claims of infringement, breach of contract and is well versed in the proper methods of calculation, royalty rates, and in all aspects of damages assessment. This expert has particular experience in clothing and apparel industry matters and has been engaged for patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and other intellectual property matters and has served as an expert witness.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #211495
This financial industry software expert holds a PhD and has extensive experience managing data used in the financial services industry, including a deep understanding of how financial services companies use data. This expertise includes developing and teaching graduate-level finance courses, founding an enterprise software company that provided software to professional services firms and financial organizations, and working as an expert in numerous software-related matters, including trade secret, contract dispute, and patent cases involving the financial services industry.
This expert understands data sources, the use of APIs and earlier tools, and the use of data in fixed income, futures, swaps, and options. This expert has worked with data licensing, including licensing financial market data from third parties, and has also been involved in building or managing security master databases.
Prior work has included developing and teaching courses related to the financial services industry in a graduate finance program at a well-regarded university and in professional financial certification programs. This expert also co-developed and taught a financial technology course through a prominent technology forum.
This expert has served as a consultant and expert witness in several matters involving the use of financial data by financial services companies. This work has included trade secret matters involving mortgage-backed securities trading, related systems, data flows, market activities, and software used in fixed-income trading, including databases sourced for use with the software.
This expert has also analyzed matters involving the use of financial data and related analytical tools by large financial services firms.
This expert has conducted research and published a peer-reviewed article regarding how a leading financial services company reengineered data flows and software systems to provide faster and better services to traders and other personnel.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #212147
This trade secret/software systems expert has over 30 years of experience in software system design, development, implementation, and small group management, including extensive experience with trade secret-related source code analysis.
This expert has worked on over 5 trade secret matters and over 10 patent matters for both plaintiffs and defendants. Much of this expert's career as a software engineer, architect, and expert witness has involved source code analysis, including comparing software source code to patent claims and analyzing asserted trade secrets and alleged misappropriation in source code.
This expert does not have direct experience with weather or agricultural sensors or networking hardware. Instead, this expert has applied expertise in algorithms, database design, graphical user interfaces, and system architecture to meteorological-related projects.
This expert has worked with meteorological data in several contexts over the years. In one role, this expert worked on optimum ship-routing algorithms and software using wind and wave data, ship characteristics, and input from staff meteorologists to support least-time and least-fuel ocean crossings and bad-weather avoidance. This expert also used weather data to create models of ocean wave generation and propagation due to winds and topography to predict wave statistics at offshore oil-platform sites.
In another role, this expert worked on a next-generation optimum ship-routing system using similar inputs, including winds, waves, currents, and ship characteristics, while integrating suggestions from meteorologists.
This expert has experience in software intellectual property litigation, including disputes involving patents, trade secrets, copyrights, the DMCA, and business practices.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #225323
This computer science/GPU expert holds a Ph.D. and is an academic professor specializing in computer science and engineering, with senior leadership experience at a private technology company. This expert has held adjunct academic appointments in biomedical engineering and advanced computing for art and design. This expert earned undergraduate degrees in computer science and Applied Mathematics from a well-regarded public university, followed by M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from another well-regarded public university.
This expert previously spent over 10 years as a researcher at a national laboratory, developing complex simulation codes and associated visualizations, and later led research efforts in scientific visualization, computer graphics, and virtual reality with substantial research funding. This expert's research interests include computer graphics, game technologies, serious games, games for health, virtual reality, real-time rendering, scientific visualization, and medical imaging.
This expert serves or has served on editorial and conference boards for prominent visualization, computer graphics, and related technical forums, including major publications and conference series in visualization and computer graphics. This expert has authored over 100 scientific publications and remains actively involved in the graphics community, including through membership in a prominent computer society. This expert also regularly consults on legal matters involving patents and copyrights, general programming issues, and .NET technologies.
This expert has served as an expert witness in numerous patent litigation and trade secret matters involving GPU architecture, shader pipelines, and graphics hardware acceleration. Roles have included authoring expert reports, providing deposition and trial testimony, and supporting counsel through technical analysis, claim interpretation, and code review. This expert has testified before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and has been deposed several times.
This expert's litigation experience includes ITC and district court matters, inter partes review proceedings, and trade secret matters involving GPU and unified shader architecture, graphics hardware acceleration, semiconductor design, graphics IP, software and hardware code analysis, software forensics, GPU compression technology, and related computer graphics technologies. This expert's work has included expert reports, deposition testimony, trial testimony, declarations, technical reports, technical review, and analysis of software and hardware code.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #226747
This USB expert is a software and embedded software/firmware developer and expert witness with over 40 years of experience, focusing primarily on copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation through source code comparisons.
This expert has experience with patent infringement involving computer storage devices, including hard disk drives and storage controllers with SCSI, IDE/ATA, SATA, Fibre Channel, and USB interfaces.
This expert has worked as an employee and consultant for many computer storage device manufacturers, developing firmware for connection interfaces and detailed device operations, and has held leadership and advisory roles in prominent technology professional organizations.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #245046
This patent expert is an attorney and CLP with over 50 years of experience in IP litigation, asset management, and technological development.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant who has served as a testifying expert in over 70 patent infringement, licensing, trade secret, and trademark matters. The work has covered issues such as reasonable royalties, infringement, validity, willful infringement, inequitable conduct, standards in licensing, patent malpractice, and fiduciary duties of officers and directors on IP issues.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #253417
This lidar technology expert holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from a prestigious university and is a leading expert in electro-optical systems, advanced sensors, and imaging technologies, with over 40 years of experience in research, product development, and intellectual property litigation. This expert founded a consultancy specializing in electro-optical system design and debug, proprietary product development, and expert analysis of patents and trade secrets embodied in complex hardware and software systems. This expert is the author of a best-selling textbook on building electro-optical systems. The technical work includes the design and prototyping of lidar, spectroscopic, imaging, and sensor systems intended for real-world, publicly accessible environments. This includes vehicle-mounted and mobile platforms such as vehicular lidar, bathymetric and obstacle-detection systems, and ruggedized optical instruments operating under vibration, temperature extremes, and ambient light. This expert's experience directly encompasses camera and imaging technologies, including low-light and high-dynamic-range optical detection systems and solid-state imaging receivers. This expert spent over 20 years at a major corporate research center, making foundational contributions to optical interconnection, imaging, spectroscopy, and manufacturing instrumentation, and authored numerous patents and publications. This expert is a Master Inventor and recipient of multiple major technical awards.
This expert has worked on vehicular sensors, including the design and installation of spark and heat detectors for use on cotton harvesters, as well as expert work involving radars, lidars, and cameras on cars. This expert has experience in patent and trade secret matters for both defendants and plaintiffs. This expert has also performed extensive reverse engineering of vehicle-mounted lidars. As an optics and electronics specialist, this expert has substantial knowledge of the design and use of cameras in many situations, including visible-light cameras in instruments, imaging lidar, thermal image sensors, and scanning systems.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has served as a testifying expert in over 30 patent and trade secret matters in U.S. district courts, the ITC, and USPTO proceedings, including high-profile, multibillion-dollar disputes, with extensive experience in reverse engineering deployed equipment and analyzing source code, firmware, and system behavior.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #263059
This software expert has over 30 years of experience in the software business, including co-founding a software company, working at several startups as a senior software developer and manager, and founding a software consulting business. This expert has provided litigation support in over 80 legal matters, primarily analyzing complex software systems in response to alleged patent infringement, copyright theft, and trade secret misappropriation.
These matters often require static analysis of thousands of lines of source code across complex software systems and a variety of computer languages and technologies, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, React, Swift, shell scripting, Tcl/Tk, TypeScript, and XML.
Recent engagements have included reviewing mobile application and server-side software, reviewing modem software, investigating self-driving car implementations in response to alleged trade secret misappropriation, reviewing set-top box and server-side software, and reverse engineering Android compiled software to assess allegations of copyright theft.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #264285
This warehouse robotics expert holds a PhD and has industry and academic experience focused heavily on automated systems, including conveyors, fixed-base and mobile robots, and automated storage and retrieval systems. This expert has also taught numerous courses in robotics, automation, and autonomy as an adjunct associate professor at well-regarded universities.
This expert has been involved in more than 90 intellectual property litigation and contract/trade secret matters, including numerous litigation matters in the warehouse automation and fulfillment domain.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #269887
This mobile systems/base station expert holds a Ph.D. in wireless communication and location technologies and is a recognized expert in mobile systems. This expert has over 30 years of expertise in wireless technologies, spanning base stations, smartphones, and IoT devices using 5G, 4G, 3G, 2G, WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and UWB. This expert's core focus is wireless PHY and MAC layers between base stations and user equipment, including messaging protocols, standards, architectures, algorithms, and performance. This expert also holds an M.Ss. in antennas and electromagnetics, with a focus on high-performance antenna systems in challenging operating environments, and is a prolific author and inventor with numerous publications and patents in wireless technologies, particularly smart antennas and location systems.
This expert has worked on the design, development, testing, and deployment of wireless transceivers in RAN base stations, including RRUs, for many decades. That development work includes system, algorithm, software, firmware, hardware, printed circuit board, integrated circuit, semiconductor, and ASIC levels. This expert guided development of digital cellular base stations at a prominent telecommunications research organization, including significant contributions to software, firmware, and DSP algorithm implementation. This expert also led product development of RAN smart antenna equipment, including transceivers and associated software and firmware, as a senior technology executive at a communications technology company.
This expert witness background includes supporting many cases involving 5G, 4G, and 3G RAN equipment, including work as a source code reviewer for software, firmware, and DSP issues. This expert has testified in federal patent infringement litigation involving complex 5G RAN RRUs with massive MIMO and has experience with trade secret matters, including criminal trade secret issues. This expert has many patents and publications related to wireless RAN, including transceivers, signal processing, and algorithms, and has co-authored technical textbook material on practical implementation of 3GPP UMTS High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), an advanced 3G technology.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #272979
This trade secret damages expert holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in economics from a prestigious university and a B.A. in statistics from a well-regarded university, and is a nationally renowned economist and financial consultant who presents analysis in simple terms that any trier of fact can understand. This expert is well-published, frequently presents at academic and industry conferences, is nationally renowned for expert-witness credibility, and has been featured in prominent business and legal publications, with substantial testimonial materials on file.
This expert has provided expert witness support, litigation consultation, and detailed economic and financial analysis required to quantify damages of all types, including all categories of intellectual property.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #275772
This code review expert has a Masters in Data Science, is a senior executive at a technology research and forensic firm, and has over 15 years of experience reviewing source code in patent, trade secret, and copyright cases.
This expert has worked on over 200 cases, including over 30 matters involving e-commerce websites. In these matters, this expert analyzed websites and both front-end and back-end source code to evaluate infringement positions, and has testified through declarations and depositions in several such cases.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #285112
This software code review expert holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from a well-regarded university and has held a leadership role at a boutique consulting firm providing IP litigation support involving trade secret, copyright infringement, and patent infringement issues related to software and source code.
This expert has performed hundreds of code reviews for many purposes, including reviews involving literal and non-literal copying or similarity, with experience investigating both direct copying and indirect copying involving algorithms, functions, functionality, data schemas, architectures, and related software elements. Similarity determinations can be made at one or more levels of software, from system-level analysis to line-by-line review.
This expert has performed these analyses alongside review of development artifacts such as revision histories, correspondence, planning materials, requirements materials, roadmaps, and process materials to assess how alleged misappropriation occurred, including analysis of past conduct and its later technical effects. This expert also has experience performing provenance analyses, including determining whether common code originated from public-domain sources rather than from misappropriation.
This expert has been involved with the software industry for over 20 years and has worked professionally in a variety of roles, including Solutions Engineer, Software Developer, Software Architect, technology executive, and company executive. This expert has published academic research on source code analysis and has taught software engineering at the university level.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant with substantial source code review experience in litigation. This expert has served as an expert witness in trade secret, copyright, breach of contract, patent, and other matters.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #289857
This code review and internet advertising expert has served as an expert witness and consultant in patent, trade secret, and copyright cases, with proficiencies in smart TVs and internet advertising technology, substantial code review and device testing experience, and litigation-support reporting experience.
For over 5 years, this expert has focused on software development, operating-system architecture, and backup storage devices, and has also provided technical research in computer science specializing in software development and code analysis. This expert has been recognized by attorneys in several cases for expert witness and forensic analysis work.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #296818
This trademark and copyright damages expert has over 30 years of experience in financial and litigation consulting, with expertise in intellectual property damages. This expert has provided financial analysis and valuation assessments involving patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright issues, and has testified numerous times in patent infringement disputes, trademark disputes, copyright disputes, and false advertising disputes in both state and federal courts.
Start Trade Secret Expert SearchExpert Witness #302726
This JavaScript/code review expert holds a PhD and has extensive experience in source code review, including reviews involving web technologies and JavaScript. This expert and associated technical teams have performed a large number of source code reviews, published research on source code analysis, worked as professional developers, taught software engineering, and provided testimony through declarations, reports, depositions, and trial appearances.
This expert has worked extensively with B2B applications and software as a service, including work involving the medical industry. This expert has professionally developed machine learning and AI applications and has worked on litigation matters involving those technologies, including copyright and trade secret matters.
This expert has substantial experience with Git and has helped develop protocols for recent AI-copyright litigation.
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