Consumer Products Expert Witnesses
What is a consumer products expert witness?
Consumer products expert witness candidates typically have a background in an engineering discipline, marketing or consumer behavior, economic damages, or product design. An expert witness should not only have substantive expertise, but also possess the ability to explain technology and evidence to a judge and jury. In high profile cases, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, law firms may require previous expert testimony experience.
What types of cases require a consumer products expert witness?
A consumer products expert witness could provide expertise in intellectual property matters such as a patent infringement litigation, trade secret disputes, or trademark infringement allegations. Product liability and personal injury cases could also utilize the support of a consumer electronics expert witness.
The United States Consumer Product Safety Act has an extensive definition of consumer products:
The term ‘‘consumer product’’ means any article, or component part thereof, produced or distributed (i) for sale to a consumer for use in or around a permanent or temporary household or residence, a school, in recreation, or otherwise, or (ii) for the personal use, consumption or enjoyment of a consumer in or around a permanent or temporary household or residence, a school, in recreation, or otherwise; but such term does not include— (A) any article which is not customarily produced or distributed for sale to, or use or consumption by, or enjoyment of, a consumer.
Consumer products expert witness case examples
Whether a case involves:
- a consumer product liability class action suit,
- accident reconstruction for a consumer safety matter,
- product recall or product design issues,
- lost profits relating to consumer confusion, or
- an inter partes review to support a patent litigation.
What litigation support work might a consumer products expert witness be expected to perform?
In a litigation scenario, an expert can expect courtroom testimony, as well as other expert witness services such as a prior art searches, failure analyses, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, forensic engineering, and related consulting activities. A law firm may also request an expert for pre-litigation expert consultant work.
Over the years, Cahn Litigation Services has been approached by many attorney clients to locate expert witnesses that can support matters involving consumer electronics products and technology. Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a consumer products expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Consumer Products Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Consumer Products experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Consumer Products landscape.
Expert Witness #259336 & 259344
This team leads a full-service consumer, public opinion and business-to-business market research company, and services corporate and law firm clients. Their team of in-house analysts, telephone researchers and in-field researchers has conducted over 1,800+ qualitative and quantitative research projects across a wide range of categories throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. These include diverse subject matter for the following industries:
- Automotive OEM and Dealership Industry- Foodservice Products/Services- Grocery Retail Chains- Hospitality Providers- Mass Media Products/Services- Restaurants Chains- Retail Food Products/Services- Litigation/Judicial Services- Mass Media Products/Services- Mass Merchandiser Retail- Commercial Product/Services- Consumer Products/ServicesThey provide professionally trained In-Field Researchers located throughout the United States. Their services include: Telephone Surveys, On-Site/In Store Surveys, On-Line Surveys, Focus Groups/One-On-One Intercepts, monitoring/validation, Cell Phone Mix, Stratified Sampling, and Random Digit Data.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #124247
This expert is a consultant to national and international corporations in the areas of product development, manufacturing, packaging, warnings and instructions. This expert has consulted on more than five thousand matters involving human factors, safety, personal injury and product liability. A licensed P. E. with a specialty in Safety Engineering and Design, this expert has many years of experience consulting to insurance companies, municipalities, government agencies and the legal profession. In addition to participating in numerous product liability cases, this expert has authored and presented on the topic extensively. In addition, this expert holds a PhD in Chemistry, has many of experience in polymers and is the named inventor on numerous U.S. patents involving plastics that have been commercialized, including protective headgear and numerous household products. This expert's areas of specialty include new product development, human factors, OSHA, safety, voluntary standards, statutes, labeling, custom and practice, technology and cost in relationship to the hazards, and dangers and risks involved in the use and application of consumer products. An active member of the ASTM for years, this expert has been involved in the creation of the standards and testing involved with polymeric products. Directly involved with the safety and design analysis of consumer products, warnings and instructions, this expert has created and pioneered an innovative approach for evaluating the adequacy and communication effectiveness of the warning and instructional materials associated with any product. This expert has created and critiqued warnings and instructions for a large variety of products and standards used throughout the world. This expert is well published in the areas of plastics, safety engineering and design, and household and industrial product safety. In addition to participating in numerous product liability cases (testified 9 times, deposed 20+), this expert has authored and presented on the topic extensively.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #261253
This expert is the principal designer and founder of an executive creative consulting business focusing on branding, development and design. This expert has considerable experience in intellectual property matters and as an expert witness in design infringement matters, trademark and unfair competition matters, and serving as a consultant for design through manufacturing of consumer goods in Chinese and Hong Kong factories. This expert lived in Hong Kong to complete a project for a luxury handbag line and created the overall brand strategy for the Chinese investors/factory owners.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #258595
This expert brings to the table many years of domestic and international hands-on experience formulating, testing, developing and manufacturing superior personal care products. This expert has held senior-level positions at Fortune 500 companies. As the inventor or co-inventor of more than 29 U.S. patents, this expert's expertise blends an understanding of consumer needs with in-depth knowledge of hair care/skin care formulation technologies and testing methodologies across the full spectrum of products including hair coloring, shampoos, conditioners, leave-on products, aerosol and pump hairsprays, mousses, gels, permanent waving, hair straighteners, ethnic hair relaxers, and skin care products.
This expert leads a highly successful consultancy offering full service hair and skin care product development, testing services and manufacturing for the Personal Care Industry. Partnering with clients needing a technical partner to develop superior personal care products based on an in-depth understanding of consumer needs, this expert provides services such as:
- Developing customized formulations according to customer specific requirements.- Providing small scale manufacturing and filling on site, and expertise to support large scale contract manufacturing.- Substantiating product claims via swatch testing.- Conducting salon testing among target segments- Conducting product stability testingThis expert has served as an expert witness for litigation on three matters.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #247540
This expert has many years of experience as an industrial designer in corporate, consulting and academic environments. Experienced in design within multiple markets, including infant products, exercise equipment/accessories, consumer/commercial electronics and housewares, this expert is the founder and Principal of a highly sought-after consultancy. This expert has worked with startups to Fortune 500 companies. This expert also works as an expert witness in Design patent cases and teaches Design Thinking in several schools. Previously this expert was a Business Development Manager, where this expert practiced Design Thinking methods on small and large corporations. This expert has also taught Industrial Design and Design Thinking at a polytechnic university. This expert's background in design and new product development spans both large and small corporations as well as consulting. Prior to teaching, this expert worked in the consumer and commercial electronics, infant products and sporting goods industries. This expert has been working with manufactures and clients in Asia and Europe, and holds 14 design patents and 4 utility patents in the US and Europe. This expert is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America. This expert holds a BED in Industrial Design, and a Masters of Design. Knowledgeable in design patent and trade dress law, this expert has served in several prior litigation matters providing expert research, report writing and deposition.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #125982
This expert is a rare combination of an expert who has both substantial experience as a senior executive in industry and as a distinguished and accomplished academician. This expert's branding, advertising, marketing, media techniques, and intellectual property expertise coupled with a depth of experience in consumer confusion services makes this expert a highly sought-after authority. This expert has been called a "branding guru" and "consumer behavior expert" by the media and is known for academic and empirical research on the subject. This expert has experience teaching as a tenured full professor of Marketing, where this expert regularly lectures on branding, trademark, media and survey issues, makes this expert adept at explaining difficult concepts to lay judges and juries with minimal experience in branding, marketing, consumer behavior and media techniques. This expert has significant litigation support experience, having been engaged as a testifying expert in over twenty-five district court matters including advertising-related strategies and tactics, intellectual property, branding and brand management, and consumer behavior or confusion research. This expert has been a guest on a television morning show on consumer behavior in the retail environment and is a frequent speaker and industry and academic conferences. This expert is well written and speaks eloquently.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #261242
This expert is the principal design engineer in an eponymous consulting firm dealing with design, usually from an intellectual property standpoint. This expert has designed many household appliances and their accessories. This expert has extensive experience working with Chinese manufacturers to ensure the correct production of new or redesigned products. This includes traveling to China to meet with executive general managers and production engineers of over 30 Chinese manufacturing plants. This expert has analyzed manufacturing capabilities and ways to align their capabilities with the designs, or vice-versa. This expert has experience reviewing the first test production pieces, providing feedback of changes to the tools before full production begins.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #247351
This expert is a practicing product design consultant with many years of experience designing industrial, medical, and consumer products for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. This expert’s expertise includes product design, human factors (ergonomics), graphic and packaging design, and user interface design. This expert holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design. This expert has received numerous design awards.
The holder of 57 US design patents and 11 US Utility patents, this expert is an active member of the Industrial Design Society of America, the Design Management Institute, and the American Institute of Graphic Artists, and has spoken on design at conferences around the world. Additionally, this expert has significant prior litigation experience, including report writing, deposition and testimony.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #249894
This expert brings to the table many years working experience in electronics/firmware product development of various and diversified technologies. This expert is intimately familiar with PCMCIA card technology, having designed with this technology numerous times requiring this expert to be familiar with all aspects of operation (timing, DC/AC characteristics, etc.). This expert designed a unique memory card based headphone for a client which won an Engineering Innovation Award. This expert has managed and implemented the invention technologies yielding numerous patents in consumer, industrial, medical, and military products. This expert designed all circuit hardware containing microcontroller, FLASH memory, SRAM, D/A and A/D converters, instrumentation amplifiers, custom power supply to medical isolation specification levels. This includes high speed FLASH memory, SRAM and both serial and parallel I/O interfaces for Clinical Diagnostic Products. This expert has also designed Telecomm Security Devices for National Defense Centers utilizing DRAM DIMMS, FLASH SIMMS, Battery Backed SRAM, PCMCIA, USB, Fast Ethernet, and high speed Enhanced Serial Communications Controllers performing Timing Analysis and Verification under Chronology Timing Designer. This expert has prior litigation experience including deposition.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #266379
This expert has a background in electronics, software, and systems design. This expert’s career journey includes designing lab instrumentation, medical devices, smart battery systems, ultrasonic welding and cleaning, and semiconductors. This expert’s engineering consultancy worked in multiple industries with varied applications: including LED lighting, sensors and motor control, medical devices and consumer devices. Every job change has been an industry change: from lab instrumentation to medical devices, from ultrasonic plastics welding to smart batteries, from sensor design to semiconductors. This expert’s varied experiences and interests give a unique and valuable perspective on problem solving both technically and in business. This expert has spent most of a career in OEM product development, focused on embedded systems, experiencing the role of engineering in many different markets: from consumer electronics to industrial controls, from medical products to LED lighting, and much more. This expert is a named engineer on 5 patents and has done his masters work in Computer Science, holds a Six Sigma Black Belt, and is a certified Scrum Master.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #266431
This expert has been a design engineer for many years on products electrical, mechanical, and electronic. This expert is a consultant and expert witness in the analysis of video game designs, GPS devices, Hybrid Vehicles and more. This expert has a deep focus on video games for consumer use as well as arcades and casinos, many of them utilizing joysticks as part of their controllers. This expert has served as a testifying expert specifically in video games, and across the spectrum of technology, has provided deposition and trial testimony on numerous occasions. This expert is the named inventor on fifteen US patents – some of which are on video games / displays, and one is on a controller for computerized aircraft simulators. This invention utilized a joystick – the first for a P.C. This expert has written and reviewed over a million lines of code for utilization in designs and analysis.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #225920
This trade dress, product design, and human factors engineering expert is a CHFP and leads a human factors and design research firm focused on complex products and services. This expert has over 45 years of experience consulting for leading global clients and holds a BS in Industrial Design from a well-regarded design college and a Master's degree in Ergonomics from a well-regarded university.
This expert specializes in product design and development methodology, industrial design, design research, usability engineering, usability testing, and consumer decision-making. This expert has category experience across many major product categories, including infant support products, consumer products, medical products, commercial products, and other products.
This expert has served as a consulting and testifying expert in over 75 major cases involving intellectual property issues, including utility patents, design patents, trade dress, copyright, and trademark issues related to product design and development. This expert has represented major corporate clients at trial and before the ITC, prepared responses to USPTO Office Actions, and has extensive experience in demanding venues and circuits.
This expert has also held leadership roles in design protection and design science policy organizations.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #247523
This consumer products design expert is a practicing product design consultant with over 30 years of experience designing industrial, medical, and consumer products for clients ranging from start-ups to large companies. This expert has received numerous design awards for product design work, including well-regarded design excellence awards, and holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from a university. This expert also has deep experience in litigation support.
The holder of over 55 U.S. design patents and over 10 U.S. utility patents, this expert is an active member of professional design associations and has spoken on design at conferences around the world. This expert has extensive experience designing consumer products, including tools and garden equipment.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #256967
This consumer products design expert holds a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA with an emphasis in product development, is a licensed professional engineer and a certified safety professional, and has experience with multiple types of folding consumer products, including camping chairs, picnic tables, hammock stands, and canopies.
This expert is an inventor on a patent for collapsible picnic table technology and is familiar with kinematics and linkages, including designing linkages for exercise equipment, garbage trucks, custom lifting equipment, and similar products. This expert has been retained as an expert on over 40 patent cases involving infringement and invalidity, including matters in the ITC, PTAB, and District Courts.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #264811
This consumer products design expert has spent over 25 years focusing on the design of novel features, functionality, and business models for consumer products, with a primary concentration in aesthetics.
Experience includes the design of cookware, including pots, lids, and handles, as well as medical sterilization devices used to sterilize surgical instruments, involving analogous issues of sealing and heating. This expert has also designed pod coffee makers involving heating and sealing elements relevant to consumer product and patent design issues.
This expert is a named inventor on over 40 U.S. design and utility patents and has served in a design protection leadership role for a prominent industrial design association. This expert has been engaged as an expert witness in design litigation involving consumer products, trade dress, and utility patent cases dealing with functional issues.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #282754
This consumer products design expert holds a PhD, is a PE, and has extensive experience in consumer product design and development, as well as technical expertise in patent-related matters.
This expert has been retained in several cases involving folding and collapsing consumer products, including children's play yards, mobile phone cases, and sockets for mobile electronics. In an academic professor role, this expert taught principles behind foldable products, including linkage design, material selection, fastener selection, and safety requirements, and advised design projects related to foldable devices such as camper slide-outs, folding automotive roof racks, and wheelchairs.
This expert's industrial experience included serving as an engineering director at a consumer products company, where responsibilities involved directing product development activities in a marketing-driven environment. Aesthetics and user functionality were important product aspects because those features often drove sales of personal care products such as hair dryers, electric shavers, and related products. This expert is therefore well positioned to identify functional and ornamental design elements.
This expert has been retained as an expert in patent matters in over 40 cases and has never been excluded as an expert because of a Daubert motion. This expert has given deposition testimony many times, testified before the ITC in patent-related matters, and supported IPR and PGR matters before the PTAB.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #283812
This human factors, warnings, labels, and instructions expert specializes in human factors, human performance, human perception, industrial and occupational safety, and consumer product design and use. Human factors is the scientific field of research dealing with the capabilities and limitations of people as they interact with systems made up of products, tools, technology, information, organizations, environments, and other people.
This expert is a consultant with substantial experience in the investigation and prevention of accidents and injuries related to consumer products, warning labels, instructions, and training. This expert has over 20 years of experience in both forensic and proactive work.
This expert has assisted in the selection and development of safety systems for consumer and industrial equipment and has performed hazard and risk assessments for consumer products, industrial machines and systems, auditory warnings and signals, and medical devices. This expert has deep experience as an expert witness and has testified in depositions and at trial.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #290284
This PFAS testing and exposure expert is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) with over 20 years of experience and holds a senior technical leadership role at an environmental health consulting firm providing scientific, technical, and managerial resources for complex environmental remediation projects, consumer health and safety matters, and chemical and manufacturing plants.
This expert evaluates exposures to chemicals and potential health risks in consumer products, workplaces, and the environment. Specifically regarding PFAS in consumer products, this expert has assisted with understanding testing data, recommending and facilitating product testing through accredited third-party analytical laboratories, analyzing results with respect to various regulations, and estimating potential health risks. These products have included cosmetics, food packaging, and recreational equipment.
This expert has also provided deposition testimony regarding historic exposures to PFAS chemicals and potential health risks.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #290827
This mechanical engineering/product design expert holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and has over 15 years of experience in product design. This expert is an inventor on several issued patents with several more under review, and was the primary mechanical designer on over 20 products brought to market.
This expert has significant experience designing a range of consumer products, including security products, consumer electronics, products with heaters and fans, and other product design projects.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #298112
This engineering expert is a licensed mechanical Professional Engineer with B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees from a well-regarded public university and over 20 years' experience in engineering and product design, standardization testing, safety, and human factors. In a current engineering consulting role, this expert focuses on design, safety, and human factors related to accidents, injuries, and industrial and consumer products.
This expert has over a decade of experience analyzing the design and failure of consumer products, including testing, with experience involving issues such as warnings, temperature set points, automatic shutoff mechanisms, timers, heating-element placement, and product designs that may allow temperatures to exceed surrounding water temperatures. This expert's experience also includes analysis of consumer products that failed due to environmental exposure.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Consumer Products Expert SearchExpert Witness #300085
This mechanical engineering expert holds a PE credential and has more than 20 years of engineering consulting experience involving the design of various consumer products. This expert has consulted and testified in multiple consumer product cases and intellectual property cases.
This expert's consumer product experience includes the design and analysis of mechanisms that apply forces uniformly and in a controlled manner to products used in consumer kitchens. Relevant work includes a patented jar opener produced by a major appliance manufacturer, where pressure and force management is critical, as well as another product incorporating force and pressure control features that is entering production. This expert can discuss the general mechanics of the design.
This expert is well-qualified to provide opinions on force transfer and stabilization and to provide testimony in federal court.
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