Web Application Expert Witnesses
What is a web application expert witness?
Web application expert witness candidates typically have extensive experience in computer science, software engineering, and/or internet applications. Web application experts have practical experience in search engine optimization (SEO) and other Ecommerce applications, such as PPC. Further needs may require an internet applications expert witness expertise in electronic email, internet security, spam, and social media. Cahn Litigation Services is often called upon by law firms to locate expert witnesses that can support software matters, including cases involving web applications.
What types of cases require a web application expert witness?
A web application 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, an Inter Partes Review (IPR) in the PTAB, or a patent case or proceeding in the International Trade Commission (ITC). A software forensic expert can analyze software source code to determine if there is evidence to reveal intellectual property infringement or theft.
What litigation support work might a web application expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by a web application expert witness could include software analyses, digital forensics, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, as well as expert testimony at deposition and at trial. In addition, clients may seek a software expert for pre-litigation consulting work. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, an attorney may request a testifying expert with prior expert witness testimony experience. A web application expert witness needs to not only have software expertise but must also possess the ability to explain technology to lay people, including a judge and jury.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a web application expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Web Application 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 Web Application experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Web Application landscape.
Expert Witness #221832
This expert is the Founder and President of an independent Mobile/E-Commerce software consultancy, and brings to the table technical strengths that include: web, enterprise, and mobile development, Java, C, C++, object oriented design and architecture, distributed n-tier, component model, extensive middle-tier and backend database experience, ERP systems, and rule-based engines. This expert has expertise and experience in Internet and connectivity technology including: social media, e-commerce, security, database, web design, and business application development. This includes:
- Extensive mobile, LBS, enterprise systems work- Full stack development from web to backend- Various protocol and security related technologies- All aspects of database interactions- CTO for mobile development companyThis expert has extensive prior litigation experience working for both plaintiff and defendants. Over 16 depositions given, court trial testimony given multiple times (5), reports issued for almost every case including: Markman, invalidity, non-infringement, PTAB IPR declarations, infringement and rebuttals. Further, this expert has provided prior art evaluation as well as code review and assistance in technical strategy advice for trial decks and demonstrative prep. Nearly all of this expert's cases involved some form of enterprise systems having to do with various aspects of mobile & security technology.
Start Web Application 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 Web Application Expert SearchExpert Witness #257546
This expert is an experienced computer science expert witness, information technology expert witness, web analytics expert witness, SEO expert witness, and SEM expert witness providing research and testimony in the areas of web analytics, keyword advertising, cross screens use, search engine optimization, web searching, online marketing, online branding, online advertising, and related areas. This expert has worked numerous cases, including patent cases, and has testified at deposition, arbitration, and trial.
This expert has produced more than two dozen expert reports, has been deposed a dozen times, and has testified at both trial and arbitration. This expert has been retained by several law firms as an expert witness and has been an expert witness in several jurisdictions.
This expert has subject matter expertise in the domains of online advertising, online marketing, web analytics, and related areas. Specific subjects include, among others, ad replacement, affiliate advertising, benefits of search engines, content advertising, cookie stuffing, co-registration advertising, cross screens, demographic targeting, domain parking, dual screens, how people search, how people view search results, how search engines work, information retrieval, image searching, keyword advertising, online advertising, online branding, online copyright, online marketing, online reviews, online trademarks, pay-per-click, PPC, online reputation management, search engine optimization, SEO, search engine marketing, second screens, SEM, search engines, social media, tracking code replacement, trademark issues in online advertising, trademark issues in web searching, web analytics, web page archiving, web page viewing, web search, and webpage ranking. This expert has worked Inter Partes Reviews (IPR), written and submitted numerous expert reports, been deposed (both in person and remotely), and has testified at arbitration, and at trial.In addition to expert witness work, this expert has 250 or so authored research publications, with articles appearing in a range of journals and conferences. This expert is a co-author of a book on web searching, co-editor of a handbook on Weblog analysis, and author of a publication on keyword advertising.
This expert is a Professor with a College of Information Sciences and is a principal scientist. This expert has a PhD in computer science, along with master degrees (computer science and international relations).
This expert has served on the research committee for the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO). This expert has received several awards, including an ACM Research Award, application development awards, and other writing, publishing, research, and leadership honors. This expert's research work is highly cited.
This expert is actively involved in teaching undergraduate (information technology (IT) project management, keyword advertising) and graduate courses (searching, retrieval, analytics).
Start Web Application Expert SearchExpert Witness #209091
This expert holds a BS in Computer Science and is an eBusiness Director and Technology Consultant specializing in Telecommunications, eCommerce, and search technology. This expert brings many years of experience in a diverse set of technologies including Natural Language processing, High Level Language coding, machine translation, Search and query keyword relationships, Command and Query language translation.
This expert has been a testifying expert for over 24 cases including testimony for Telecommunications, Voice Recognition, Query and Search Engine, providing expert reports for patent litigation, IPRs, deposition and trial testimony. This includes testifying in a Multilingual transaction patent suit in where the judge found for the client and cited this expert on all points of contention in the case.
Summary of Professional Experience:
Designed and developed Contact Center system for that included Multilingual and Natural Language speech recognition, parsing the command request and provide appropriate prompts based on both translated prompt lookup and machine language translation.
Developed Search Engine techniques, media library for commercial website search
Developed High volume content publishing. Provided multi-lingual content library including search, indexing, and taxonomy processing for dialect standardization.
Designed and Implemented Call Center systems that use Voice Recognition for automated client response that supported multi-lingual input and output. Developed advance indexing, and query parsing for customer directory search engine.
eMarketing consulting for Commercial websites, search engine, pay per click, multilingual ad campaigns, and Adwords metrics verification.
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This expert has many years of development and operations experience in high technology companies. This expert has made hands-on technical contributions to numerous business software application development efforts. This expert’s knowledge and experience extends over three principal areas: (1) Architecture and design of complex web-server and client-server business software systems, (2) detailed design and coding techniques for business software applications, and (3) software project management and development contracts. This expert’s detailed programming knowledge encompasses Java, C, C++, ASP, Python and Visual Basic languages, as well as assembly language for Intel and 68K microprocessors and real-time DSP applications. This expert has also managed programming teams that created applications for mainframes. This expert’s networking experience includes TCP/IP router development for Ethernet LAN's, fiber optic links, and wide area networks. This expert has managed many client-server and web-based ERP business solutions projects for Financial, Inventory, Order Entry, Shipping, Supply Chain and Manufacturing core modules. This expert has worked on semiconductor manufacturing systems involving yield prediction and supply chain management using statistical forecasting. This expert has direct experience with Oracle 8.05, 8i and 9i as well as SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000 for both transactional and data warehouse systems. This expert has also held responsibilities for internal network operation, intranet, and public access web server IT functions in several corporations. In this role this expert gained a detailed understanding of security issues such as SSL, user authentication, network security, firewalls, hacking countermeasures. This expert is also knowledgeable about email servers, backup and restore procedures, and service level agreements for customer-outsourced data in ASP systems.
This expert holds a B.S. degree with 1st Class Honors, an MSEE, and a Ph.D. also in Electrical Engineering. This expert has extensive litigation experience including deposition and courtroom testimony, claim construction for Markman hearings, infringement and validity rebuttal reports in support of plaintiffs, as well as numerous non-infringement and invalidity reports on behalf of defendants.
Start Web Application Expert SearchExpert Witness #257547
This expert is an Adjunct Professor at a College of Information Sciences and, a principal scientist in a social computing group, and a Professor in the College of Science and Engineering. This expert has a Ph.D. in computer science, along with master’s degrees in computer science and international relations.
This expert specializes in the uses and affordances of the Web for information searching and ecommerce, with a focus on interactions among the person, information, and technology. Current active research areas are Web searching, information retrieval, keyword advertising, online marketing, and online social networking within the ecommerce domain. This expert has both research and practical experience in the design of web/online systems, including the design of interfaces and has taught programming and system development courses. This expert also has solid experience with database and database management systems, which are usually the backend of many of these online systems.
This expert has authored or co-authored 250 or so research publications, with articles appearing in a multi-disciplinary and extremely wide range of journals and conferences. This expert has received several awards and honors, including a Research Award, six application development awards, and a university-level teaching award, along with other writing, publishing, research, teaching, and leadership honors.
This expert has done several consulting projects (log analysis, statistical analysis) and expert witness cases (patent litigation, civil litigation, and class action suits) in the areas of keyword advertising, web analytics, co-registration, domain parking, webpage access, webpage history, and online advertising click fraud. These include several cases concerning patent invalidity for the design/development of online systems.
Start Web Application Expert SearchExpert Witness #252211
This iOS and Bluetooth expert holds a PhD and is an accomplished senior executive, founder, and corporate officer with over 20 years of innovative product development experience in iOS, Android, Windows, and Bluetooth technology. This expert is recognized in the wireless industry as a resource for smart-device, mobile, and Bluetooth technology development.
This expert founded multiple successful technology firms and has provided consulting services to companies designing and developing smart devices. This expert has created end-to-end solutions from embedded sensor devices to mobile apps that publish data to web services, as well as visualization methods for collected data.
This expert has experience with Bluetooth standards development, including work involving the Bluetooth version 4 specification and low-energy Bluetooth technology. This work includes technology relevant to item-tracking devices, ultra-wideband-enabled proximity detection, and device ecosystems that support distributed location tracking.
This expert has also been involved in iOS-related app matters and has submitted reports involving mobile application functionality and codebase review. This expert has performed code reviews of portions of the iOS codebase and submitted reports to courts regarding those reviews.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Web Application Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Web Application Expert SearchExpert Witness #263364
This software/source code expert holds a Bachelor's Degree in computer science from a university in the United Kingdom and has over 30 years of continuous experience in technology development. This expert's work covers many business areas, programming languages, and development environments, including over 20 years in financial services.
This expert has provided technology and subject-matter expertise in litigation involving patents, copyright, and intellectual property since the early 2000s. This expert has deposition experience and extensive experience preparing declarations for the U.S. PTO, reports comparing source code, and prior-art reports for patent matters.
This expert actively develops applications in C#, C++, and Java, including multi-service, cross-platform applications using reusable classes, queues, and IP technologies. This expert has over 30 years of experience in computer technology and actively codes in C++, C, C++ CLR, Java, JNI, and C#, with extensive experience in database technologies.
This expert applies these skills to compare sets of source code and identify circumstances where code may have been copied or where an application may violate a copyright or patent. This expert uses a manual comparison process that reviews each line of code and the architecture rather than relying on software tools. The process produces detailed reports for use in later litigation stages.
This expert has copyright experience in matters in the United States and Canada, including the use of abstraction, filtration, and comparison to evaluate applications and processes. This expert has applied standards such as Substantial Similarity, look-and-feel protection, and the virtually identical standard to compare applications and processes.
This expert has created detailed process flows, used screen captures, and compared system outputs to identify areas of commonality or demonstrate a lack of overlap. This expert has examined project plans, user requirements, design documentation, system architecture documentation, user testing plans, and testing procedures, and has performed code comparisons and reported the results. This expert has also supported summary judgment work in software-related disputes.
This expert has analyzed the use of open source code and its impact when used in developing an application. Open source code is often used to reduce development time or to include functionality outside a developer's existing skill set.
This expert has considered legal implications associated with open source code, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and legal treatises addressing computer technology. This work has involved examining different license types, including GNU/GPL, Apache, and Android licenses.
This expert has addressed the complexity of open source licensing, including how poor licensing choices or badly constructed licenses can create negative consequences for creators and users. Users of open source code need to examine the legal ramifications of such code to avoid negative impacts. This expert has opined that open source code can have both advantages and disadvantages and that users must understand the potential consequences of using it.
This expert has evaluated alleged theft of intellectual property by examining systems for similarities in architecture, code, form flow, and function. This expert has considered opportunity, motive, deposition testimony, relevant skill sets, and whether a person accused of theft had the ability to take or copy code, documents, sales plans, or other material.
This expert has examined security protocols of material owners to analyze whether alleged theft could have occurred and how it could have been done. This expert has collected this information and provided analysis in reports.
This expert has supported software copyright matters involving web applications used for processing health insurance claims. The work included auditing applications, reviewing source code, interviewing technical personnel, studying allegedly infringing applications, and analyzing software copyright principles, including scenes a faire, abstraction, filtration, comparison, the virtually identical standard, and the substantially similar standard.
This expert has analyzed business models, transaction flows, external data, data types, and process interactions to define the form, flow, and function of software applications and associated business processes. This expert has documented user interfaces, data fields, technology components, data items, data processing methods, and database structures, and has prepared detailed comparison reports addressing alleged copyright violations.
This expert has also supported defense work in software copyright matters involving ATM, POS, check-image, and transaction-processing software. This work required knowledge of Java, Apache Camel, WebSphere, message queues, TCP/IP communications, remote-site connections, and Microsoft SQL Server.
This expert has reviewed deposition testimony to validate or contradict technical claims, examined messaging formats used by financial transaction systems, analyzed data transfers using knowledge of TCP/IP, and evaluated interactions among card-processing entities to understand data-transmission protocols and message-format standards.
This expert has provided knowledge of Check 21, the rule allowing images of checks to be treated as legally equivalent to paper checks, in connection with software capability analysis. This expert has performed line-by-line comparisons of software to source code alleged to have been copied and has analyzed copyright issues using public-domain and originality principles, U.S. Copyright Office materials, and form, flow, and function analysis.
This expert has supported intellectual property theft matters involving software for large-scale prescription processing. This work included reviewing deposition testimony, evaluating skill sets, reviewing project plans, interviewing personnel, and applying experience in source-code security to assess whether theft allegations were technically supported.
Start Web Application Expert SearchExpert Witness #275483
This audio/video coding expert is an experienced software developer for media-centric applications, especially those related to sound and video streaming and playback.
Beginning with early computer-music work on mainframes, this expert has been involved in generations of audio and video capture, processing, and playback technology, including multimedia synchronization experiments and pre-web distributed dynamic media. This expert has worked on operating systems down to very low levels and is familiar with the details of audio/video synchronization.
This expert has experience with audio-centric applications such as audio/video recording and editing tools running on desktop and mobile platforms. This expert served for about a decade as editor of a prominent academic journal focused on computer music and taught graduate courses in multimedia engineering at a well-regarded California university for over a decade.
This expert provides IP consulting support involving application analysis, source code discovery, claim construction, report writing, depositions, and court testimony. This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant, including depositions, in-court testimony, and IPR proceedings.
Start Web Application Expert SearchExpert Witness #283591
This packet monitoring expert holds a PhD and is a professor at a well-regarded university, with over 30 years of R&D experience in networked multimedia, including streaming, network traffic monitoring, and classification.
This expert has published over 10 journal papers, over 145 additional journal papers, and over 245 conference papers in these areas, and is also a named inventor of over 20 issued U.S. patents. This expert has used Wireshark and Fiddler in multiple cases and has set up a Charles web proxy on a laptop to monitor mobile application traffic through iPhone and Galaxy phones. This expert also has litigation experience in these fields.
Start Web Application Expert SearchExpert Witness #305526
This data privacy and security expert holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science, Master's degrees in Computer Science and Education, and has served for nearly a decade as an adjunct professor in a university Master of Science in Information Security and Assurance program. This expert offers technical and regulatory expertise in the mechanics and legal implications of online tracking technologies, including Meta Pixels, web beacons, cookies, and Conversion APIs (CAPI). This expertise is further supported by work as a subject matter expert (SME) and co-author of industry technology and governance standards for government and professional standards bodies.
This expert has served as a technical expert in over 5 cases focused on the application and analysis of Meta Pixels and associated tracking technologies. With experience spanning both plaintiff and defense representation, this expert provides a broad view of how these technologies are litigated under various regulatory frameworks, including VPPA, HIPAA, GLBA, BIPA, and CIPA. This expert has testified in federal court, including a multi-day evidentiary hearing regarding Meta Pixel tracking, serving as a primary technical resource for the bench, clarifying complex operations, and rebutting factual inaccuracies presented by opposing counsel.
With over 35 years of experience in the practical application of IT, information security, privacy, and regulatory compliance, this expert has the depth to provide professional opinions on the intersection of technical data extraction practices and their legal implications. This expert's practitioner experience bridges the gap between technical forensics and the practical application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, California Penal Code ? 502, and broader federal and state statutes. This expert offers demonstrated expertise in cybersecurity, data privacy, and digital forensics, with experience in legal issues surrounding unauthorized data access, web scraping, and data misappropriation. This expert's focus centers on the operational standards governing lawful data acquisition, moving beyond the technical nuances of personally identifiable information to assess whether extraction activities align with established organizational compliance, legal requirements, and industry norms.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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