Smartphone and Smart TV Expert Witness
We provide smartphone expert witness and smart TV expert witness testimony for litigation involving mobile operating systems, smart TV platforms, smart home integrations, and connected device ecosystems. Disputes in this space frequently involve patent infringement across device software stacks, trade secret misappropriation related to proprietary platform features, and breach of contract claims tied to app distribution, licensing, or OEM partnerships. We analyze source code, firmware, device architectures, and communication protocols to deliver defensible opinions.
Common Disputes We Handle
Smartphone and Smart TV Patent Disputes Infringement and invalidity analysis for patents covering mobile operating systems, smart TV software platforms, streaming protocols, remote control systems, and device interoperability. Source code review, claim chart preparation, and expert reports for district court, ITC, and PTAB proceedings.
App Store and Platform Contract Disputes Analysis of app store terms, subscription billing flows, in-app purchase mechanisms, and platform SDK licensing for breach of contract and warranty claims involving smartphone and smart TV ecosystems.
Smart Device Trade Secrets Evaluation of proprietary mobile and smart TV architectures, activity recognition algorithms, sensor fusion methods, and source code lineage to assess misappropriation or independent development in connected device platforms.
Smart Home and IoT Integration Expert testimony on smart home communication protocols, sensor networks, device pairing, hub architectures, and cross-platform interoperability for disputes involving connected ecosystems spanning smartphones, smart TVs, and smart home devices.
Representative Engagements
- Smart TV Patent Infringement Retained to analyze a smart TV manufacturer’s software stack, including the operating system, remote control firmware, smartphone companion apps (iOS and Android), and device drivers, for infringement of nine patent families covering universal remote control technologies. Authored expert reports for both federal district court and ITC proceedings.
- App Store Subscription Billing, Class Action Reviewed a major app store’s source code to reconstruct historical subscription payment screen presentations and user-facing terms. Provided source-code-grounded analysis supporting plaintiffs’ claims regarding unclear terms and conditions in the billing flow.
- Communications Patent Portfolio Valuation Analyzed an acquired patent portfolio for a large communications equipment manufacturer, categorizing patents by area of invention, organizing them into families, identifying assertion targets, and preparing initial claim charts for selected patent families against a specific smart device target.
Our Experts
Smart Home Expert Witness
Background
This expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from a top public university, specializing in AI planning algorithms. They serve as a distinguished professor and chair in electrical engineering and computer science at a public university, and as chief research officer at a digital health company. Previously, they held progressive professorial positions in computer science and engineering. They have consulted for Fortune 500 companies across consumer electronics, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and environmental protection. With over 40 years in the field, their research focuses on smart environment behavior analysis and automation, including sensor-based activity prediction, cognitive assessment, multi-person tracking, and health prediction in continuously monitored smart homes. They have consulted for leading law firms on matters related to AI and smart home technologies.
Expertise
- Smart TV platforms, smart home hubs, IoT sensor networks (Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE)
- Activity recognition (HMMs, CRFs, deep sequence models), behavior modeling
- Data-driven activity prediction, multi-entity tracking, indoor mobility prediction from smart device telemetry
- Python, MATLAB, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, time-series analysis
- Smart environment automation, adaptive control systems
- Biomedical informatics, digital health platforms, ambient assisted living
Smart TV Expert Witness
Background
This expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering with a dissertation in Artificial Intelligence, along with an MBA focused on Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship from a top business school. With over 20 years of experience, they led the global launch of a smart TV platform with OEM partners at a major technology company, founded multiple startups in AI and big data analytics, and served as an assistant professor researching machine learning. Their technical expertise spans smart TV systems, casting devices, streaming media players, Android-based operating systems, and Google TV, along with cloud computing, web applications, and smart device integrations. They have provided testimony in U.S. District Courts, the ITC, PTAB proceedings, arbitrations, and state courts, covering patent infringement, invalidity, breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, and copyright infringement including contributory infringement under the DMCA.
Expertise
- Google TV, Android TV, Tizen, webOS, Roku OS, Chromecast, Fire TV
- OTT streaming protocols (HLS, DASH, RTMP, MPEG-TS), adaptive bitrate streaming, DRM (Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady)
- Android OS internals, AOSP, Android SDK/NDK, Java, Kotlin, smart device firmware
- Cloud computing (AWS, GCP, Azure), microservices, REST APIs, big data analytics (Spark, Hadoop)
- Bluetooth (BLE, A2DP), HDMI-CEC, DLNA/UPnP, smart home device integration protocols
Smart Device Expert Witness
Background
This expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with an emphasis in Artificial Intelligence from a leading public research university, specializing in adaptive control. They have served as a research professor in electrical engineering and computer science, directed research centers focused on intelligent systems, and founded a technology company specializing in adaptive AI solutions for smartphones and smartwatches. Over more than 30 years, their contributions span sensor selection for health-monitoring smart environments, automated activity-aware prompting, cross-environment activity recognition, and sensor network configuration learning. Their work encompasses optimizing smart TV, smart device, and smart home systems through intelligent data analysis and adaptive algorithms.
Expertise
- Smartphone and smartwatch platforms, embedded sensor systems, wearable device firmware, mobile health applications
- AI/ML algorithms (decision trees, random forests, SVMs, neural networks), adaptive control, reinforcement learning
- Activity recognition, transfer learning, sensor fusion
- Python, R, MATLAB, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, data mining
- Smart home sensor networks (Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE, Wi-Fi)
Android Expert Witness
Background
This expert holds a Ph.D. from a top private university in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. They have co-founded startups in real-time communications, online media-sharing communities, and auto-calibration solutions for multi-display systems that became a market leader in simulation and training. They have served as a technical leader at a major technology corporation developing messaging servers, and as president of a consultancy advising Fortune 500 clients on IP and product development for Android-based smart systems. Their technical depth spans instant messaging, compilers, display technology, image processing, machine vision, AI algorithms, GPU programming, and structured light camera systems. They have extensive expert witness experience in intellectual property, patents, trade secrets, and financial regulatory matters across federal, state, ITC, and FINRA venues, having authored dozens of expert reports and provided testimony in multiple trials.
Expertise
- Android OS (AOSP, Android SDK/NDK, HAL), iOS, mobile app development, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift
- Real-time communications (WebRTC, SIP, XMPP), instant messaging protocols, messaging server architecture
- Display technology (multi-projector calibration, HDMI, DisplayPort), smart TV rendering pipelines
- C++, C, C#, Python, JavaScript, PHP, compiler design, systems programming
- Multi-display systems, simulation/training platforms, auto-calibration algorithms, 3D reconstruction
Mobile OS Expert Witness
Background
This expert holds a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence from a prominent U.S. university and an MBA from a leading business school. They served as an engineering leader at a Fortune 50 technology company focused on consumer electronics and software, leading teams in professional media applications, and held technical executive roles at startups related to smart devices. With over 10 years in engineering management and hands-on engineering across mobile and desktop platforms, they bring both technical depth and leadership perspective. As an expert witness, they have assisted legal teams in high-profile software cases involving major technology and consumer companies, providing depositions and testimony in federal court and arbitration. Their work encompasses PTAB inter partes reviews, contract disputes, patent infringement and invalidity, trade secret misappropriation, claim constructions, and source code inspections.
Expertise
- iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI, Core Data, Core ML), Android (AOSP, Jetpack, Room), macOS, Windows application development
- Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C#, C, C++
- Mobile app architecture (MVVM, MVP, Clean Architecture), cross-platform frameworks, SDK/API design
- Media frameworks (AVFoundation, MediaCodec, ExoPlayer), audio/video processing, content delivery pipelines
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