Smart and Mobile Devices

In the rapidly advancing field of smart devices, including Smart TVs, smartphones, and smartwatches, legal disputes demand specialized expertise to address complex technical challenges. Smart devices expert witness services provide attorneys with authoritative, evidence-based analysis tailored to cases involving IoT ecosystems, device security, firmware functionality, or interoperability issues. With extensive experience in smart device technologies and protocols, specialists deliver clear, compelling testimony that translates intricate technical details into persuasive arguments, equipping legal teams to navigate sophisticated cases with confidence.

A team of seasoned smart device professionals offers attorneys precise insights across domains like embedded systems, wireless connectivity, and data privacy in Smart TVs, smartphones, and smartwatches. Services include thorough evaluations of device-related incidents, assessments of compliance with industry standards, and defensible expert opinions that withstand scrutiny. Whether addressing disputes over device malfunctions, intellectual property violations, or security breaches in these smart devices, these services provide objective, court-ready expertise to strengthen legal strategies and achieve favorable outcomes.

How We Help Clients

Technology Strategy

Smart TVs and smartphones are not standalone devices. They are connected ecosystems with many stakeholders that compete aggressively in an IP-rich landscape. Our experts have helped companies of all sizes with correctly positioning their competitive strategy.

Expert Witness

Our experts have been involved with cases including Roku, Universal Electronics, Google, and other smart TV and smartphone vendors. We are up to date with the latest trends in smart TV and smartphone technology and can opine authoritatively supporting related litigation.

Mergers & Acquisitions

High-stakes transactions require third-party independent experts opine on critical technical aspects of the transactions.  Top experts not only bring their technical expertise to answer questions but also help drive the diligence process and define what questions to ask.

Insights

Case Studies

Smart TV Patent Infringement

The holder of many universal remote control patents sought to be compensated for the use of its technologies by a smart TV maker. The potentially offending technologies were located across the defendant’s many software components, including the main smart TV operating system, the remote control, the smartphone apps (iPhone and Android), and the device drivers. We analyzed the defendant’s software (in C, C++, Java, Objective C, and Swift) for infringement of 9 different patent families, and drafted expert reports of our findings in both federal and ITC cases.

App Store Terms of Use

In this class action case, we were asked to review a popular app store’s source code and reconstruct the way the subscription payment screen looked, or could have looked, in given times in the past. The plaintiffs were seeking relief due to unclear terms and conditions. The source code spanned programming languages like Java and C++, and included many front-end resource files. We provided a structure to the plaintiffs’ arguments rooted in source code.

Patent Portfolio Evaluation

A large communications equipment manufacturer was interested in understanding the value of their newly acquired patent portfolio. We analyzed the asset by categorizing the patents by area of invention, organized them into sub-areas and families, and identified potential targets for assertion. As a second step, we analyzed a specific set of patent families against a specific target. We were able to identify sets of assertable patents across several patent families, and assisted with creating initial claim charts.

Our Experts

Smart Home Expert Witness

This expert holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from a top public university, specializing in AI planning algorithms. In their professional roles, this expert serves 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 various organizations, including Fortune 500 companies in consumer electronics, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and environmental protection.

This expert witness possesses deep technical expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, behavior modeling, smart environments, biomedical informatics, and digital health, with a strong focus on smart TV, smart devices, and smart home applications. Key areas include data-driven activity prediction using sensors, environmental sensor-based cognitive assessment, activity recognition in multi-entity smart home environments, knowledge transfer for streamlined activity model development in smart environments, adaptive smart environment automation, multi-person activity recognition and tracking in continuously monitored smart homes via sensor vectorization, indoor predictability of human mobility from smart device data, fusing ambient and mobile sensor features for health prediction. With over 40 years in these fields, their work enhances integration of smart TV, smart devices, and smart home systems for behavior analysis and automation.

This expert has consulted for leading law firms in matters related to artificial intelligence and smart home technologies, and on legal matters as an expert witness.

Smart TV and Streaming Expert Witness

This expert witness holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering with a dissertation in Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, this expert earned an MBA focused on Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship from a top business school. With over 20 years of professional experience, they led the global launch of a smart TV platform with OEM partners at a top technology company, founded multiple startups in AI and big data analytics, and served as an assistant professor researching machine learning at a state university.

This expert’s technical expertise encompasses specialized knowledge in smart TV and streaming, and covers platforms like smart TV systems, casting devices, streaming media players, Android-based operating systems, and Google TV. Additional areas include software analysis, computer architecture, cloud computing, web applications, internet computing, smart devices, smart home technologies, and related integrations such as smart bed systems and Bluetooth communications.

As an expert witness, this expert has provided testimony in U.S. District Courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings, arbitrations, and state courts, opining on patent infringement, invalidity, breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, and copyright infringement, including contributory infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This expert has been retained for both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving leading technology companies in sectors like telecommunications, streaming, smart TV, smart devices, and cloud services, with experience in depositions, trial testimony, and authoring expert reports.

Smart Device Expert Witness

This expert holds a PhD in computer science with an emphasis in artificial intelligence from a leading public research university. Specializations include adaptive control. Professional history includes serving as a research professor in electrical engineering and computer science at public universities, directing research centers focused on intelligent systems, and founding and leading a technology company specializing in adaptive AI solutions, such as smartphones and smartwatches.

This expert witness possesses extensive technical expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, graph theory, and algorithms, with applications in smart homes, smart environments, smart devices, sensor networks, activity recognition, pervasive computing, and mobile computing. Over more than 30 years, contributions include sensor selection for health-monitoring smart environments, automated activity-aware prompting, cross-environment activity recognition, and sensor network configuration learning. Additional skills encompass optimizing smart TV, smart devices, and smart home systems through intelligent data analysis and adaptive algorithms.

Android Expert Witness

This expert holds a PhD from a top private university in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In professional roles, this expert has co-founded startups in real-time communications technologies, online community platforms for media sharing, and auto-calibration solutions for multi-display systems that became a market leader in simulation and training. Additionally, this expert has served as a technical leader at a major tech corporation developing messaging servers, and as president of a consultancy advising Fortune 500 clients on IP and product development for Android-based smart systems.

This expert witness possesses deep technical expertise in instant messaging, chat systems, compilers, display technology for smart TV and multi-projector setups, image processing, machine vision for smart devices and home automation, AI algorithms, GPU programming, and structured light camera systems essential for immersive smart home environments. Proficient in mobile operating systems, such as Android and iOS, and programming languages including C++, C, C#, Java, Python, Scheme, LISP, JavaScript, and PHP.

This expert has extensive experience as an expert witness in intellectual property rights, patents, trade secrets, financial regulatory matters, and litigation in federal, state, ITC, and FINRA venues, having authored dozens of expert reports, participated in over 10 depositions, and provided testimony in multiple trials.

Mobile OS Expert Witness

This expert holds a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence from a prominent U.S. university and an MBA from a leading business school. In their professional career, this expert served as an engineering leader at a Fortune 50 technology company focused on consumer electronics and software, leading teams in professional applications for media. They held technical executive roles at startups related to smart devices.

This expert witness possesses extensive technical expertise in software development for smart TVs, smart devices, and smart home ecosystems, with over 10 years in engineering management and hands-on engineering across platforms like iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. Proficiency extends to source code in Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C#, C, and C++.

As an expert witness, this expert has assisted legal teams in high-profile software cases involving major technology and consumer companies. They have provided depositions and testimonies in Federal court and arbitration, and authored expert reports and rebuttals. Their work encompasses patent trial and appeal board inter partes reviews, and handled matters in contract disputes, patent infringement and invalidity, trade-secret misappropriation, claim constructions, and expert opinions. Their expert witness work includes source code inspections and research into prosecution history and prior art.

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