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

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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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• Expert Witness #218696

  This packet monitoring expert holds a PhD and is a professor at a prestigious university, as well as head of a computer systems and networks performance engineering lab. This expert's research contributions span high-speed networking and packet switching, the Internet, cloud computing and data centers, multimedia streaming, information service engineering, and computer systems security.

  This expert has been deposed over 10 times, has testified in court, has prepared reports from multiple perspectives, and has provided technical tutorials to judges.

  
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• Expert Witness #225868

  This cellular technologies expert holds a PhD and is internationally recognized in high-speed communication and computing, as well as the development of semiconductor devices for related applications. Before joining a well-regarded university, this expert spent a number of years at a telecommunications research organization as a lead systems engineer helping regional telephone companies transition from voice-centric networks to multi-service networks suited for the Internet era. This expert received an outstanding achievement award for those contributions. This expert designed one of the earliest nationwide, commercial-scale code division multiple access, or CDMA, networks after winning a cellular communication license through a highly competitive national selection process, and was the leading author of the technical blueprint for that wireless cellular network. Since then, this expert has continuously researched 3G UMTS, 4G LTE, 5G IoT wireless networks, and various generations of WiFi technology. During that work, this expert's team used RF coverage software to optimize base station placement on a nationwide scale. This expert later worked closely with several U.S. carriers to design metro-scale radio access networks.

  This expert's research areas include switching, routing, performance control, and security in communication networks. This expert and associated researchers invented and implemented methods of high-performance switching, including multi-channel switches that alleviate the speed and performance constraints of electronic switches. The pattern-matching engines developed by this expert's research group are used for processing complex instructions embedded in communication packets at billions of packets per second. The content search engine developed by this expert's research group has been incorporated into numerous cybersecurity systems in active networks and is being developed for machine learning and data mining in applications including cybersecurity and the Internet of Things (IoT).

  This expert is also actively involved in the development of virtualized cluster computing networks and has developed algorithms to control code downloading from network servers to end-user units. Based on these algorithms, applications running on smartphones and portable devices can run much faster without consuming excessive battery power. By quantifying information related to usage patterns, large amounts of user data can be stored, helping improve mobile applications significantly.

  This expert also focuses on future generations of wireless technology and has developed methods that enable coordinated transmission and reception of wireless signals among multiple base stations. Previously, radio signals from multiple base stations were considered interference. Leveraging this research, a cluster of base stations can work together as a single resource, enhancing the quality of radio signals across extremely noisy wireless channels. This research is critical in accommodating the next generation of the Internet and wireless networks, which integrates numerous Internet of Things (IoT) devices as part of intelligent networks. This expert holds multiple U.S. patents, has published extensively in the wireless and network fields, and has founded and managed multiple companies.

  This expert is a highly experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. This expert has testified extensively in both state and federal courts on issues of patent and copyright infringement in communications technology.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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• Expert Witness #226479

  This cloud storage expert holds a PhD, is a Professor of Computer Science, and conducts research in the broad area of parallel and distributed systems. The work focuses predominantly on edge and cloud computing, mobile computing, Internet of Things, and high-performance computing, with subtopics including storage systems, resource management, and security.

  This expert has consulted on a range of technical and legal projects, including expert analysis, patent examination, intellectual property, and industrial projects, in the areas of Internet applications, mobile computing, distributed systems, and cloud computing.

  
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• Expert Witness #252450

  This SEO/domain/online reputation expert is a noted search engine optimization (SEO) and internet technology professional who has been widely cited for work in industry trade and national news. This expert is a frequent speaker at prominent internet conferences and writes on internet marketing topics for several news and information services.

  This expert has worked as a technology and advanced development department leader at a communications company, managing programmers and designers responsible for the design, maintenance, and application development of a website. In that work, this expert assisted an IP department in identifying infringing websites and domain squatters, as well as obtaining and configuring domain names for various products, services, and websites. This expert has experience in internet programming, including technical aspects of how domain names function in setting up web applications, and is an inventor on a number of patents.

  This expert founded a search marketing agency providing SEO consulting, local search optimization, social media management, and online reputation repair. As part of that work, this expert has obtained, purchased, and configured many domain names on behalf of clients, helped clients monitor for infringing domain names, and assisted with brokering prominent domain names. This expert has significant litigation experience involving domain names, trademark infringement, and misappropriation of domain names, and has been deposed in many cases in federal, state, and international courts.

  
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• Expert Witness #256635

  This network/communications technologies expert is a world-renowned researcher who has published over 55 technical books and over 295 papers and has made over 80 conference presentations. This expert has many years of technical hands-on and managerial experience in planning, designing, deploying, and operating secure IP/IPv6, VoIP, telecom, wireless, satellite, and video networks for major global carriers and financial companies.

  Previous roles have included senior technology leadership for a technology assessment and enterprise cybersecurity firm, general management and ground systems engineering leadership for a major satellite services provider, network architecture leadership for a major financial services company, chief technology leadership for a communications group, and packet-services executive leadership for a telecommunications company. This expert has published and lectured extensively on network security, satellite systems, wireless networks, IP/IPv6/Metro Ethernet, video/IPTV/multimedia, VoIP, M2M/Internet of Things, IT/Enterprise Architecture, and network/Internet architecture and services.

  This expert has taught IT and telecommunications courses at a well-regarded private university, a prominent technology institute, and local colleges and universities, and has appeared at industry conferences as well as on radio and TV technology programs.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #283906

  This digital forensics/hacking crimes expert serves as a senior digital forensics analyst and expert witness for a highly regarded cybercrime consultancy, with forensic work experience, profound technical knowledge, and extensive experience testifying and explaining technical information to non-technical audiences.

  This expert has over 20 years of experience with search engines and emerging technologies related to web browsing and search engine capabilities, including searching the internet for specific images and data. This expert has experience as a government and private cyber investigator and has expertise with numerous web-capturing tools, including the Wayback Machine and other internet archives.

  This expert is also a collegiate educator conducting research and delivering education on internet investigations and copyright laws in relation to cyber law.

  
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• Expert Witness #284844

  This data security/intrusion expert is a computer scientist and cybersecurity specialist who leads a professional practice addressing matters such as data breaches, computer crime, and the use of data in litigation. This expert has been engaged in criminal, civil, administrative, and military processes for both those bringing and defending actions, as well as for courts directly. This expert's opinions have been accepted by federal and state courts throughout the country in hearings, trials, and appeals.

  This expert was the primary investigator in a notable internet privacy research project showing how decisions made in the design and implementation of internet-connected systems affect computer-system security and user privacy. The work has been reported in worldwide media and computer science literature, as well as in published professional writing. This expert has held a senior academic teaching role in a computer science and engineering department at a well-regarded university and has guest lectured through a privacy-focused foundation and at multiple universities, graduate programs, a law school, and a business school.

  
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• Expert 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.

  
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