Software Patent Expert Witnesses
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What is a software patent expert witness?
Software patent expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience in computer science, software development, computer forensics, electrical engineering, telecommunications, and/or information technology. A software engineer has expertise in programming languages, software development, and computer operating systems, and applies engineering principles to create software systems. A software forensic expert can analyze complex software source code to determine if there is evidence to reveal intellectual property infringement or theft. In addition to technical expertise, a software expert witness must possess the ability to explain complex software issues to a judge and jury.
What types of cases require a software patent expert witness?
The types of cases requiring software expert witness services involve intellectual property, notably patent infringement litigation. Representative matters that Cahn Litigation Services has searched for software patent experts include:
- reverse engineering of a Texas-based company’s healthcare software,
- Los Angeles e-commerce intellectual property dispute,
- backup/restore software, and
- software patent IPRs, among many others.
What litigation support work might a software patent expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a software expert witness could include computer software analysis, expert report preparation, depositions, and expert witness testimony in the courtroom. In addition, law firm clients may seek a software industry expert for pre-litigation consulting work.
Cahn Litigation Services has many years of experience locating expert witnesses to support software patent matters.
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Software Patent 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 Software Patent experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Software Patent landscape.
Expert Witness #243631
This expert is an experienced consultant, computer industry executive and software developer. In this expert’s international consulting practice, this expert has been engaged more than 200 times by clients seeking to select and implement new business computer systems (including hardware, software, networking, computer services, etc.) and/or needing assistance in dealing with major information and communications technology decisions, nearly all of which dealt with the evaluation, selection and implementation of ERM software, including several where the software needed to handle some sort of dispatching functionality. This expert has been engaged nationwide more than 100 times as a testifying and/or consulting expert in computer technology related cases by counsel on all sides of computer related disputes (including customers, vendors, implementers, patent holders, alleged patent infringers, former employers, current employers, etc.). Half or more dealt with the implementation and/or functionality of ERM type software. One of these dealt specifically with dispatching related software and dispatching functionality was an issue with some others. This expert has testified in Federal and state courts, including extensive courtroom and AAA arbitration hearing testimony throughout the United States and overseas. This expert’s areas of expertise include disputes related to:
Systems and software non-performance, including computer systems and software defects (ERM, CRM, SCM, etc.), including systems implementation issues.
Patent, trade secret and copyright (intellectual property) litigation related to business-oriented systems and software.
Software licensing and systems contracting.
This expert has worked as a computer and management consultant, and has executive level experience in software development, project management, and computer/software sales and marketing. This expert is one of fewer than 15 consultants in the world to have earned designation as both a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a Certified Computing Professional (CCP).
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #233213
This expert holds PhD and MS degrees in Computer and Information Science, with a doctoral dissertation on real-time distributed knowledge-based computing. This expert has had additional formal post-graduate education in project management, time management, public speaking, team leadership, sales, strategic corporate management, venture investment, and corporate finance. This expert has management experience and industry leadership in Internet, multimedia, and cutting-edge software design and service delivery.
This expert’s PhD in Computer & Information Science concerned distributed computing software for Internet client-server systems. This expert has extensively directed development of network services, client/server hardware, and software. This expert was a hands-on CTO overseeing all technology in Internet businesses including a billion-dollar broadband firm, a $100 million wireless firm, and the company managing most of Hollywood's film & TV digital assets on the Web.
This expert has many years of hands-on experience authoring & managing software, this includes CGI, HTML, web beacons e.g. single-pixel GIFs, URL augmentation, web page composition, web search forms/queries, "portlet" aggregation of content into a web page, Javascript and other scripting languages, GUI window stacking, log design & management, web cache design and implementation. This expert has led software teams, including design of Internet client & server software including GUIs with multiple remote stacked windows.
This expert founded an early web company and authored the CGI, HTML, & Web GUI software to put the a soccer store on the Web. This expert managed the incubator spinout firm that designed the Internet's first "portlet" software.
This expert’s engagements have included identifying infringement/non-infringement through extensive forensic analysis of software, totaling over a half-million files reviewed and successfully identifying specific evidence as to infringement/non-infringement. This expert has personally authored ~1 million lines of code across 30 programming languages, providing deep reliable insight in forensic analyses. Total expert reports authored, thousands of pages; total on-record testimony time, ~80 hours. This expert is comfortable with claim construction, in/validity and non/infringement, DOE & 101/102/103/112 analysis, etc.
This expert has extensive litigation experience.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #243655
Expertise: E-commerce Systems, Web-based technologies, Financial Systems, C++, Java, SQL, assembler, scripting languages, Control Systems, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, Quality Assurance and Test, Source Code Analysis
This expert's consulting focuses on software systems as intellectual property, especially in litigation cases of patent and copyright infringement. This expert's technical expertise is well-suited to the analysis of enterprise-scale software that is configured for web-enabled services, e-commerce systems, embedded systems, information management systems, and payment systems. This expert's engagements typically include source code analyses for software written in C, C++, C#, Java, Javascript, SQL, Fortran, Basic, Perl, Assembler, and other programming languages, as well as in markup languages such as HTML and XML applications.
This expert has served as an expert witness in 43 litigation matters, 11 of which have involved allegations of patent infringement. Several of the patent infringement cases included multiple patents-in-suit. This expert's work products have included infringement reports, invalidity reports, rebuttal reports, and expert declarations. Litigation venues have included federal and state courts, the Patent and Trademarks Appeals Board (PTAB), and the International Trade Commission (ITC). This expert's testifying experience includes 1 jury trial, 2 court hearings, and 9 depositions.
This expert has also conducted source code reviews in 35 litigation matters. Eight of the code reviews have involved websites and/or web-centric technologies on an enterprise scale.
This expert has consulted as a technical expert to evaluate previously unasserted patents in patent portfolios for their assertion potential. Technical domains of the patents have included software GUI inventions, client-server applications, and information processing in enterprise-scale computer systems.
The breadth of this expert's expertise covers a variety of subject matter domains. This expert possesses strong backgrounds in commercial software development, engineering best practices, core natural sciences, biology of neural networks, and mathematics of artificial neural networks. This expert's degrees are in physics and nuclear engineering from leading universities. This expert has served as a seasoned technical manager in roles that require effective communication skills. This expert has programmed as a software developer, configured networked computer servers as a hands-on supervisor, provided leadership as an executive manager, championed the adoption of new technologies in enterprise team settings, and taught technical curricula as an officer in the U.S. Navy.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #223022
This expert is the president of a premiere contract research and development firm and president of a leading provider of software intellectual property analysis. This expert is considered a pioneer in the fields of analyzing and synthesizing software source code, having created a program for synthesizing operating systems and a program for detecting software intellectual property theft.
This expert is the founder and former President of a Remote Backup Services firm. Having invented the concept of remote back-up, this expert set-up a remote backup system with a central file server and communication lines including ISDN. This expert also wrote the remote backup software for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 including a GUI, a backup scheduler and file compression, encryption, and communication routines. In addition, this expert has written several journal articles dealing with back-up/restore software and technologies and served as an expert witness in a major back-up software patent matter. This expert was responsible for analyzing the patents, examining the software and writing reports. This expert did not get to testify in this particular matter.
This expert teaches engineering and business courses at conferences throughout the world and is an experienced and well-regarded expert in intellectual property disputes related to software source code, microprocessor design, networking, and other technologies. This expert holds a number of patents and earned two bachelor's degrees, in physics and electrical engineering, and a master's degree in electrical engineering. This expert specializes in software development, software plagiarism detection, intellectual property, patent infringement, copyright infringement, trade secret infringement, embedded systems. This expert has extensive expert witness experience and has been deposed and testified.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #247985
This expert is a year veteran of the software industry, having worked on numerous projects involving source code and executables written in C++ and other languages. This expert has devoted a significant portion of this expert's consulting practice to expert witness services, supporting a near even mix of plaintiffs and defendants in over forty patent, software copyright, and trade secret matters where code review, reverse engineering, and computer software and hardware forensics are required. This expert has become patent savvy and understand the concepts behind patent litigation from claim construction, to validity contentions.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #261601
These experts represent members of a software expert witness team that provides source code reviews and technical support for product liability, patent infringement, software copyright, and trade secrets theft litigation.
Services include:
- Software source code discovery assistance- Source code review and analysis of related design documents- Run-time simulation and software analysis- Expert reports and depositions- Expert testimony at bench and jury trialsKnown as leaders in electronics and software development for safe and secure technology, these expert witnesses are professional engineers, software developers, and academics who are up-to-date and knowledgeable in both the theoretical and the practical applications of best-in-class hardware and software design. Their software analysis teams are custom-staffed with professional software development experts to meet the technical needs of each case. Teams range from a single software expert witness assigned to provide services from discovery through testimony to multi-person teams led by a testifying expert for more complex technology. Teams are staffed with key topic experts who use the most effective and cost-efficient analysis methodologies. The software analysis process that these experts follow allows clients to receive the highest level of technical support and analysis quickly and cost-efficiently.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #215714
This expert has many years of academic and engineering experience and has experience as an expert witness in computer science, software development, network streaming media, embedded systems, enterprise software systems, digital signal processing for audio and music technology. This expert has sustained a long and successful career at the cutting edge of software development and system design using multiprocessor/multi-core architectures for signal processing and control. This expert has been a Software Architect for multiple projects at various companies, and has consulted for a long list of technology companies. This expert provides computer technology consulting, software engineering, and litigation support to high-technology companies, internationally.
This expert has testified before the International Trade Commission, and before a jury in Federal Court, has testified at Markman claim construction hearings and Markman tutorials in Federal Court, been deposed over 10 times, and has authored more than 50 reports and declarations. Case types include patent, trademark infringement, copyright, trade secret misappropriation, and inequitable conduct. This expert has worked on complex international patent cases, and has provided expertise on such diverse areas as streaming media systems, handheld networked Personal Information Management (PIM) devices, enterprise email systems, software for factory automation, interactive databases, enterprise software for management of media libraries, MPEG audio compression, on-line gaming, composition systems, digital camera hardware and software, digital audio hardware and software technologies, compilers, file systems, operating systems, and more.
This expert has worked for companies that interfaced between portable and nonportable devices for sharing information and resources. Additionally, this expert has testified on matters regarding the protocol for having a portable device direct music to be transmitted to a sound system wirelessly.
This expert has published widely in various juried journals, and has authored three books including a two-volume text on the mathematics of music, and a collection of articles on artificial neural networks and music research. This expert taught graduate and undergraduate courses in computer science and digital audio, conducted computer systems research for digital audio, designed and built several networked digital media computer laboratories.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #226812
This expert holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and has extensive experience developing Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), semiconductor memories (DRAM and variety of other types), and Programmable Logic (FPGA and PLD) products used in the design of digital computer and telecom systems. This expert has developed Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software products based on behavioral (C, Verilog and VHDL) synthesis and ASIC/FPGA placement-route (physical design). This expert created an engineering design methodology and directed a world-wide operation that released over 3000 gate array (ASIC) designs. This expert was a key contributor in development of various memory (DRAM, SRAM, & serial memory) and logic products. Several patents in semiconductor processing and device structures and ?C to RLT? software compiler technology was issued along with multiple Technical Disclosure Bulletins. This expert?s experience includes various types of re-configurable (Field Programmable Gate Array) logic hardware & software products.
This expert created an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design methodology many years ago that incorporated scan test FlipFlops on IO cells that can be used to test internal operations of ICs. This ASIC design methodology was used to create over 3,000 IC designs, a few of which employed the expensive ?scan-test? capability.
This expert?s numerous expert reports and depositions in IC-related patent litigation cases have resulted in favorable settlements, and this expert has testified in court on IC cases as well. This expert has acquired extensive prior art documents and products over years in the industry. This expert has also provided technical background at the patent office during Re-Examination reviews and at court tutorials.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #209442
This expert holds a Ph.D. in computer science and is the co-founder of a leading software and technology consulting firm and a lecturer and researcher at a University. This expert provides advice on technical, business, and intellectual property strategy to e-commerce startups and also works as an expert witness on patent infringement cases. This expert’s research interests include electronic commerce, interoperability of heterogeneous databases, database integration, object-oriented databases, database implementation, databases on parallel computers, federated autonomous databases, database views including updates, incomplete information and nulls, software integration and reuse, and large system integration.
This expert has been:
Chief Technical Advisor of a software company, which was the technology leader in the Transactional Application Server market, providing a foundation for distributed computing. This company accelerated the development and deployment of high-performance distributed systems.
Co-Founder, COO and CFO of a company that developed applications for the business to business e-commerce market. Its applications address the challenge of creating, operating, and maintaining industry catalogs for Internet market makers.
Advisor to a company that created an integrated demand profit management system that captures real-time demand data and through patent-pending applications determines optimum inventory allocation and replenishment drivers in high velocity value chains.
Co-inventor of technology for a "do not spam" registry. This technology was licensed.
Co-founder of a company which provided free Internet access to hotel guests through their in-room Internet Appliance with proprietary software using a custom advertising delivery system.
Co-Founder and co-inventor of a startup that offered targeted promotions based on its purchase mining technology.
This expert managed a University’s efforts on collaborative engineering, workflow, and database security and coordinated relationships with industry. This expert was project manager for an effort that included research on searchable online catalogs, providing services over the Internet, and concurrent engineering. This expert collaborated on a project on integration of heterogeneous databases for information finding and distributed constraints, and collaborated on a project on version and configuration management and distributed constraints for collaborative design. This expert previously managed a project on interoperability of object-oriented and relational databases, a project on federated autonomous databases, a project performing research on databases on parallel computers, and the development of a formally specified, modular database system that includes multiple interfaces at multiple levels as well as support for database security and integrity.
Start Software Patent 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 Software Patent 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 Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #226042
This user interface/user experience expert holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from a public research university and has decades of experience in software development, licensing, computing devices, software applications, e-commerce, and Internet advertising.
This expert has served as a consultant and expert witness to the legal community on matters involving computing devices, software applications, e-commerce, Internet advertising, software-related disputes, and patent matters.
This expert has designed user interfaces for over 40 years, including small screens for portable terminals, mobile phone displays, and large-format screens for complex artistic layouts. This expert has developed interfaces for proprietary software products and for various clients.
This expert's copyright experience has involved alleged infringement related to source code, user interface design, and URL search terms. The work has included issues involving unauthorized copying of source code reflecting both functional logic and creative expression, as well as alleged infringement of user interface design elements such as layout, visual styling, screen architecture, and interaction patterns. This expert has also addressed issues involving the structure and selection of URL search terms designed for branding and algorithmic efficiency. These matters reflect the complex ways intellectual property can be appropriated in digital environments.
Start Software Patent 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 Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #268139
This gaming and entertainment software expert is a Professor Emeritus with over 20 years of teaching experience and has served as a founding academic leader of several computer science game programs.
Before teaching, this expert worked on vision and realization games produced for the U.S. military. This expert's publications include work on gaming models and the game design of entertainment and serious games. This expert is a frequent presenter at industry and academic conferences, holds numerous subject matter-related patents, and has numerous publications.
This expert has developed significant gaming software for commercial and military applications. This expert is an experienced patent infringement litigation expert witness with experience in lawsuits and IPRs involving gaming and software issues.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #268384
This PHP/source code comparison and code review expert is a computer scientist educated at a prestigious university and has over 10 years of experience as a testifying expert witness in technology cases. This expert has served as a consulting and testifying expert witness in software development, patent infringement, and commercial litigation matters for both plaintiffs and defendants, with the ability to translate complex software, patent, and technology issues for lay audiences.
This expert has consulted on significant antitrust cases in the travel industry. This expert has been responsible for PHP code review work, including comparing software products in patent infringement matters and evaluating allegations involving installation of web-based software products. This expert has experience coding and managing software development for PHP and web-based applications, including building numerous e-commerce sites for large and small stores and implementing order management, payment processing, and real-time tracking systems at private companies and a major financial institution.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #270508
This network monitoring expert has over 40 years of experience with storage devices, embedded software systems for industry and consumer products, and related systems, including flash memory such as solid state disks, memory cards, and flash drives; optical storage such as CD, DVD, WORM, and magneto-optical storage; magnetic storage such as hard disks, floppy disks, and tape; RAID and disk arrays; jukeboxes; USB; SCSI; iSCSI; IDE/ATA/ATAPI/SATA; Fibre Channel; PCMCIA; game programming; home appliances; and telecommunications.
This expert has written and designed device drivers, software, and firmware for Windows, Linux, VxWorks, QNX, and other embedded real-time operating systems (RTOSs). Professional roles have included software developer, project lead, seminar presenter, and technical writer. Technical experience includes programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, LabVIEW, C, C++, Delphi, C#, and assembly.
This expert has served as an expert witness and expert consultant in over 40 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action, and contractual disputes, as well as patent portfolio reviews involving file systems, game programming, home appliance technology, telecommunications, and television control software. These engagements have drawn on over 30 years of experience in the software storage industry and over 40 years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the consumer products, telecommunications, and storage industries.
This expert has written expert reports, been deposed, and provided courtroom testimony at trial. Engagements have involved source code analysis and comparisons, object code disassembly, benchmarking, computer media duplication, and forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase, FTK, and DiskJocky.
This expert has worked on over 50 expert witness matters and has testified by deposition and at trial multiple times. Career experience has included work on networks internal and external to computer systems, including international communication networks. Prior projects have included building a system that periodically pinged computers on a network to detect computer hardware theft, and similar technology has been used to measure the availability of web systems.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #278943
This cybersecurity expert's core research area is software and systems security, including malware analysis, vulnerability analysis, and research and development of novel defensive systems.
This expert has published several research articles on state-of-the-art dynamic malware analysis systems and techniques that have received over a thousand citations. This expert has also published on a novel defense system against cryptographic ransomware and has experience with patent litigation involving software patents and class-action suits.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #284744
This source code review expert holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from a well-regarded university, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from a public research university, and an MBS from a prestigious university. This expert has developed software professionally for Apple platforms for nearly forty years, including over 5 years managing engineers in Apple's applications division and over 5 years leading a software company founded following the announcement of the iPhone App Store.
This expert has worked extensively with iOS power management, application life-cycle behavior, and system-level edge cases. This expert has been retained as an expert in numerous matters involving mobile software, including personal-injury and wrongful-death cases, larger class actions, and patent disputes involving major technology and software companies.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #284744
This source code review expert holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from a well-regarded university, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from a public research university, and an MBS from a prestigious university. This expert has developed software professionally for Apple platforms for nearly forty years, including over 5 years managing engineers in Apple's applications division and over 5 years leading a software company founded following the announcement of the iPhone App Store.
This expert has worked extensively with iOS power management, application life-cycle behavior, and system-level edge cases. This expert has been retained as an expert in numerous matters involving mobile software, including personal-injury and wrongful-death cases, larger class actions, and patent disputes involving major technology and software companies.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #284744
This source code review expert holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from a well-regarded university, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from a public research university, and an MBS from a prestigious university. This expert has developed software professionally for Apple platforms for nearly forty years, including over 5 years managing engineers in Apple's applications division and over 5 years leading a software company founded following the announcement of the iPhone App Store.
This expert has worked extensively with iOS power management, application life-cycle behavior, and system-level edge cases. This expert has been retained as an expert in numerous matters involving mobile software, including personal-injury and wrongful-death cases, larger class actions, and patent disputes involving major technology and software companies.
Start Software Patent Expert SearchExpert Witness #284744
This source code review expert holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from a well-regarded university, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from a public research university, and an MBS from a prestigious university. This expert has developed software professionally for Apple platforms for nearly forty years, including over 5 years managing engineers in Apple's applications division and over 5 years leading a software company founded following the announcement of the iPhone App Store.
This expert has worked extensively with iOS power management, application life-cycle behavior, and system-level edge cases. This expert has been retained as an expert in numerous matters involving mobile software, including personal-injury and wrongful-death cases, larger class actions, and patent disputes involving major technology and software companies.
Start Software Patent 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.
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