IP Litigation

Technical expertise for software and digital-system disputes.

Technical consulting and expert-witness engagements in patent, trade-secret, and copyright matters involving software, source code, embedded systems, graphics, imaging, and digital hardware.

Matters Patent · Trade Secret · Copyright
Technical Work Analysis · Investigation · Source Code · Clean Room
Experience Technical expert work for much of the last decade

Technical Consulting

Understand the system and the technical issues.

Technical analysis and investigation of software and digital systems, particularly where the relevant issue crosses system layers or is not yet clearly defined.

  • Source-code analysis
  • System and architecture analysis
  • Technical investigation
  • Infringement and non-infringement analysis
  • Invalidity analysis
  • Clean-room development and oversight

Expert Witness Engagements

Technical opinions grounded in direct engineering experience.

Available for expert-witness engagements where the disputed technology aligns closely with my engineering background and areas of technical depth.

Core Technical Areas

Start with the technology at issue.

Particular depth in areas relevant to software and digital-system disputes.

Graphics & GPU Systems

Rendering, visualization, graphics pipelines, and GPU-related technologies.

Imaging & Computer Vision

Imaging, image processing, computer vision, and LiDAR.

Software & Source Code

C/C++, software architecture, implementation, source-code analysis, and clean-room issues.

Embedded & Digital Systems

Firmware, embedded systems, ASIC, RTL, and hardware/software interfaces.

Experience

Engineering first.
Litigation experience
built on top of it.

For much of the last decade, I have worked as a technical expert in IP litigation involving patent, trade-secret, and copyright matters, including matters involving Fortune 100 companies.

That work draws on an engineering career spanning digital hardware, firmware, software, graphics, imaging, computer vision, simulation, and visualization.

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Matter Inquiry

Looking for technical expertise in a specific area?

A brief description of the technology and anticipated role is usually enough to begin evaluating fit.

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