Internet Expert Witnesses

What is an internet expert witness?

Internet expert witness candidates may have extensive experience as an SEO expert, in software engineering, website development, computer science, information technology, broadband, and/or web applications. Internet trade secrets expert witnesses and internet applications expert witnesses can work in tandem to support litigation related to internet intellectual property. A skilled Internet technologies expert witnesses have the expertise and knowledge to support technological applications in Web-based technologies. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, the lead attorney may require a testifying expert with prior experience.

What types of cases require an internet expert witness?

An internet expert witness could be engaged to provide expert witness service for intellectual property matters, such as a patent litigation in federal court or a trade secret dispute. It could be a patent infringement case in the District Court or an Inter Partes Review (IPR) in the PTAB. A computer forensic expert can analyze software or hardware to determine if there is evidence to reveal intellectual property infringement or theft. Fraud, identity theft, and other cybercrimes often utilize internet experts.

Internet expert witness case examples

Cahn Litigation Services is often called upon by law firm clients to locate expert witnesses that can provide litigation support in matters involving:

• cybersecurity,
• internet marketing,
• defamation,
• malware,
• cell phone information security,
• computer forensics,
• web page design,
• computer software, and
• computer systems.

What litigation support work might an internet expert witness be expected to perform?

Expert witness services by an internet expert witness could include research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and expert witness testimony at deposition and in the courtroom. In addition, clients may seek an internet technology professional or computer scientist for pre-litigation consulting expert work. An internet expert witness needs to not only have expertise, but also possess the ability to explain technology and evidence to lay people, including a jury.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an internet expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Internet 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.

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Internet experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Internet landscape.

• Expert Witness #208883

  This expert holds a BS in Computer Science. As the principal of a highly successful consultancy, this expert conducts investigations of Intellectual Property issues regarding software and source code and subsequently testifies as a Technical Expert Witness.

  This expert specializes in:

  - software and systems

  - analysis and technical presentation

  - patent and copyright infringement

  - digital rights management

  - trademarks, trade secrets and contractual compliance

  - neutral technical advisor to the court

  - Special Master services

  This expert was an early implementer of Z39.50 systems. The efficacy of such systems took off with the advent of GUI under interfaces, and HTML/browsers. This expert knows the history of the tools, such as crawlers used to construct databases of content. This expert worked on multilingual clinical systems where the user at the screen may be native to one language while producing content for end users native to another language. This expert has hands-on background on internet search and retrieval; designing catalogs, indexing, Z39.50 Internet search protocol, Unicode, and has developed a multilingual laboratory automation system.

  As a pioneer in litigation data science, this expert developed a comprehensive Intellectual Property database that serves as a tool in evaluating patent portfolios. This expert is co-author of a guide for attorneys and courts in interpreting and assessing the meaning of patent claim terminology.  

  
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• Expert Witness #211008

  This expert is a Scientist, educator, and technologist with many years of experience and a Ph.D. This expert is currently Fellow and lecturer at a College of Engineering. Additionally, this expert is Principal Scientist and Investigator for an internationally renowned consulting and litigation firm specializing in mobile devices, smartphones, wireless LAN (WLAN), routing, LAN/WAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, IP, VoIP and web. This expert translates cutting edge research into practical products while integrating science, engineering, and innovation. This expert builds patent portfolios, consults on patent-related litigation and generates intellectual property.

  As a consultant, this expert provides expertise in network communications, telecommunications, Internet protocols, and mobile wireless technologies such as:

  - Communication networks: Internet protocols; TCP/IP suite; TCP; UDP; IP; Ethernet; network protocols; network software applications; data link, network, and transport layers (L2, L3, L4), data center network architecture, LDAP and server/network monitoring

  - Routing/switching: LAN; WAN; VPN; routing protocols; RIP; BGP; MPLS; OSPF; IS-IS; multicast, DNS; QoS; switching; packet switching; network infrastructure; network communication architectures, applications switches

  - Unified Communications: PSTN, circuit switching, IP telephony, VoIP, SIP, SS7, video and audio conferencing, streaming media, e-mail, instant messaging (chat)

  - Internet software: Internet software applications; distributed computing; cloud computing; Web applications; FTP; HTTP; Java; client-server; file transfer

  - Mobile wireless: wireless LAN; 802.11; cellular systems; mobile devices; smartphone technologies

  This expert has published over 25 scientific papers and has been designated as an inventor on more than 120 patents; over 60 prosecuted pro se in front of the USPTO.

  This expert has served as an expert in over 60 patent-related cases where this expert wrote expert reports and testified in depositions, courts and in front of a jury. This expert has testified in Federal courts, in USPTO PTAB IPR, and in the ITC.

  
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• Expert Witness #256600

  This expert compiled a "guide" to the Internet. This expert is known for the ability to distill complex concepts and make them easy to understand which is why this expert has more than 100 radio show guest appearances, and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences. Besides Search Engine Optimization, this expert frequently writes on Domain names including setting up domains with InterNIC. This expert has extensive experience as an expert witness having been deposed over 30 times and testifying at court or JAMS 7 times including in patent and trademark matters where aspects of the internet were germane to the outcome.

  
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• Expert Witness #257571

  This expert is a Senior Digital Marketing Executive and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Professional with many years of proven search engine optimization and internet marketing experience, social media marketing experience, SEO, Domain Name, and Online Reputation Management Expert Witness. This expert has specific experience in "corrective advertising", this expert has designed and implemented successful plans to clean up or change/correct internet reputation using advertising and/or generating internet content, including social media campaigns. This expert has proven an ability to develop search engine marketing and social media marketing strategies and implement them successfully using search engine optimization best practices.

  
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• Expert Witness #217512

  This expert heads an internationally recognized consultancy providing Expert Witness Services to law firms involved in litigation related to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) technology or business. This expert has been working in the areas of computing, Software development, Cyberspace, Internet/Ecommerce, SEO, and PPC.

  CONSULTING PRACTICE

  Internet Technology

  Ecommerce & Conversions

  Online Marketing

  Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

  Social Networking

  Online Advertising/Pay Per Click

  Web Development

  EXPERT WITNESS

  Internet-Technology Patents, Inter Partes Re-exams, CBM/Post-Grant Challenges

  Trademark/Copyrights

  Ecommerce-related Unfair Business Practices

  Domain Names

  Online Defamation/Online Libel

  Internet Fraud

  SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

  Founder of an eBusiness Service Provider

  Founder of an Internet-enabled publishing firm

  VP of Web Solutions for a national ISP

  VP of Marketing for a Web-applications company

  ecommerce consultant, VP of Business & Corp. Development for e-commerce startup

  Extensive authorship related to Internet, technology

  working in all areas of online business

  AUTHORSHIP

  Dozens of Internet & Technology books

  Hundreds of Internet & Technology newspaper & magazine articles

  
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• Expert Witness #231631

  Focusing on video convergence, this expert is an invited scientist in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at a prestigious engineering school. This expert is also a collaborator at a Communications Futures Program where work on Social TV has received a lot of attention. Specializing in architecture, design and implementation of end-to-end streaming and progressive download including devices, software, simulations and protocols, this expert participates in Internet standardization efforts at TISPAN, ATIS IIF, DVB, PacketCable and IETF. This expert's most recent work has centered around an innovative approach to Internet data, video and TV in a mobile, IP and social world. The work builds on Internet technologies, converged services, devices and networks and common platforms to build both innovative application and ensure the reliability of the solution. The work uses locality, caching and composition of networks; in other words, content production, dissemination and protection. This expert is a recognized and award-winning video distribution, streaming media, social media, wireless devices and IP networks systems innovator, with years of experience in architecture, embedded systems, wireless networks, mobile applications and wireline broadband technologies. This expert's in-depth knowledge of wireless (3/4G, WIFI, UWB), IMS and other IP architecture and protocols including recent applications of network coding for authentication make this inventor an innovator in the field of converged and social television. This expert holds a Ph.D. in EECS. This expert is a member of the IEEE Standing Committee on DSP and a collaborator to the ETSI BSM working group on aspects of convergence. This expert has received awards for the development of a multi-screen and multi-network video mobility system and also for a 3-screen TV experience allowing to start a show on any PC/mobile/STB, pause it and pick it up on another device.

  
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• Expert Witness #233211

  This expert is a Ph.D. in Computer and information Science. This expert has spent a career as an innovator in the field of multimedia, broadband, web commerce and distributed computing. This expert was the CTO of a billion-dollar publicly traded broadband company, including its Internet-over-cable subsidiary and satellite Internet company. This expert has hands-on experience in CATV head-end systems configuration, broadband, and Internet. This expert has extensive experience in many Internet multimedia firsts, including seminal streaming media work, contemporaneously knowledgeable of development of interstitial ad insertion in streaming media. This expert personally designed, built, field-deployed, and provided service for the industry's first Hi-Def Set Top Box used by most major Hollywood film & TV studios for dailies screening, while CTO/CIO of the principal digital dailies service provider firm. This expert is very knowledgeable about set top boxes, content management, and content and ad delivery. As an expert witness, this expert has had about a dozen engagements, with approximately 60 hours of on-record testimony, and has authored several thousand pages of expert reports.

  
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• Expert Witness #256912

  As a technology expert with many years of litigation experience in over 50 cases, including 17

  patent infringement cases and 25 IPR/CBM/GPR cases, this expert has authored reports and declarations, generated over 100 claim charts, inspected tens of millions of lines of source code, and examined numerous systems. This expert has a Master of Science in Computer Science as well as many years of experience in engineering, development, consulting, and management in data networking, monitoring, Web/Internet, software, and systems. This expert’s professional background includes cofounder of an Internet company providing human communication online rating and evaluation tools and services; cofounder and president of a provider of automated Web-based telecommunication test services; cofounder and CEO of an Internet eCommerce and portal company; general manager of data storage business unit and general manager of data networking business unit at a supplier of data storage and data networking systems; founder and president of a supplier of data storage manufacturing systems; and many years as telecommunication engineer and software developer.

  This expert has extensive experience with networking and test and monitoring systems. As general manager of a data networking business unit, this expert was responsible for a data networking analysis tools business unit that designed and built network protocol analysis and monitoring products sold, under OEM agreement, by the largest network protocol analysis and monitoring products supplier. These products, among other capabilities, could trap and record IP addresses and data packets matching criteria in the various layers of the TCP/IP stack.

  This expert designed data storage test systems and was involved with data storage protocol analyzers and monitoring products, including the best-selling data storage protocol analysis and monitoring products. For several years, as an engineer, this expert designed and implemented computer networks, data communication systems, test systems, and monitoring systems. This expert also has many years of experience in and deep understanding of Web/Internet technologies.

  This expert has litigation experience with several cases and IPRs involving data networking cases and monitoring. This expert worked for a year on a trade secret and copyright case dealing with data networking load balancers.

  
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