Alexus Computer Consulting

eCommerce Technology

Expert Witness analysis and testimony for patent cases involving various programming languages such as Objective-C, C, C++ and Java. Architecture and technology implementation for eCommerce systems involving Web server and Internet based systems. Analysis of Oracle 8i, 9i, MS Access and SQL Server 2000 database technology.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division

Civil Action No.         05-CV-0639 (RWS)    (Hon. Richard W. Story)

Matter:                  Online auction technology patent litigation.

Technical Issues:  

Communications protocols and streaming media

Responsibilities:   

Research claim construction issues.  Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding claim construction in May, 2006.  Provided a declaration to the Court.regarding construction terms for the asserted patent claims. Testified in court during claim construction hearing, August, 2006.   Wrote infringement report, validity report and testified  as an expert witnessin deposition May 2008 on behalf of AMS as plaintiff.

Law Firm:  

Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner for plaintiff.

Opposing counsel:       Ropes & Gray LLP, Morris Manning & Martin, Covington & Burling, Dow Lohnes & Albertson

McKesson Information Solutions v. Epic Systems Corp.

U.S. District Court, Northern District, Georgia, Atlanta Division

Civil Action No. 1:06-cv-2965           (Hon. Jack T. Camp)

Matter:                  Patent infringement - web-based services.

Technical Issues:  

Analysis of web technology.

Responsibilities:   

Assist in claim construction. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding contributions to claim construction, Sept. 2007.  Provided assistance with technology tutorial entered into evidence at Markman Hearing, July 2, 2008. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding infringement, February, 2009.

Law Firm:            

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GA, for defendant Epic.

Opposing counsel:                   Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC, Charlotte, NC

Madison Tyler Holdings, LLC., et al v. Financial Asset Trading & Technology of California, LLC, et al.

JAMS Arbitration       JAMS Ref. No. 1220038462 (Justice Richard Neal)

Matter:                  Misappropriation of Trade Secrets, financial market trading software.

Technical Issues:  

Examine code and algorithms in Java application re-write of market-maker trading functionality for similarity with original Python code base.

Responsibilities:   

Perform duties as a neutral, Court-appointed technical expert.  Review Java and Python code bases for similarities.  Perform automated and manual code comparisons.  Wrote technical report on findings and testified as an expert witness in deposition June, 2009.

Law Firms:           

LathamWatkins, Los Angeles, Storch Amini & Munves, PC, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, Skadden Arps, Los Angeles, Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Century City, CA, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles.

Irise v. Axure Software Solutions, Inc., Integrated Electrical Services, Inc.

U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Western Division.

Case No.               08-CV-03601 SJO (JWJx) Hon. S. James Otero.

Matter:                  Patent litigation regarding rapid software prototyping tools

Technical Issues:  

Microsoft .NET source code implementation analysis.

Responsibilities:   

Research non-infringement issues, review source code. Wrote Invalidity and Non Infringement reports; testified as an expert witness in deposition June, 2009.

Law Firm:            

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, Irvine CA, for defendant Axure.

Opposing counsel: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP.

Constellation IP, LLC v. Avis Budget Group, FedEx Corporation.

United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Texarkana Division.

Civil Action No. 5:07-cv-00038-DF-CMC

Matter:                  Patent infringement - computer based customized presentations.

Technical Issues:  

Analysis of FedEx web sites.  Delivery of web pages to web browsers.

Responsibilities:  

Wrote non-infringement report. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding non-infringement, June, 2008.

Law Firm:            

Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner, Reston, VA, for defendant FedEx. 

Sedona Corporation v. Open Solutions, Inc..

United States District Court, District of Connecticut.

Index No. 3:07CV171 (TPS)

Matter:                  Contract dispute regarding porting of source code from Java platform to Microsoft .NET platform.

Technical Issues:  

Java and C# source code analysis and comparisons for a large application concerned with data warehouses/data marts for the banking industry.

Responsibilities:   

Wrote expert report regarding similarities of code. Testified as an expert witness in deposition, September, 2008.

Law Firm:            

Schiff Hardin LLP, San Francisco, CA for plaintiff Sedona Corporation.

Opposing counsel: Pullman & Comley, LLC, Bridgeport, CT.

Taurus IP, LLC v. DaimlerChrysler and Mercedes Benz USA, Inc.

United States District Court, Western District of Wisconsin

Civil Action No. 07-C-0158-C

Matter:                  Patent infringement - computer based management of data models used for managing sales information.

Technical Issues:  

Analysis of source code used to implement DaimlerChrysler and Mercedes Benz web sites.

Responsibilities:   

 Wrote non-infringement report. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding non-infringement, Dec. 2007.

Law Firm:            

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GA , for defendants DaimlerChrysler & Mercedes Benz.

Opposing counsel: DeWitt, Ross and Stevens S.C., Madison, WI

Telematics Corporation v. UPS, Inc., et al

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division

Civil Action Nos.        1:07-cv-0105-ODE

Matter:                  Vehicle telematics technology patent litigation.

Technical Issues:  

Computer implementation of GPS tracking system

Responsibilities:   

Retained by Motorola, Ryder, and Verizon to address infringement allegations. Assist attorneys with claim construction issues; testified as an expert witness in deposition Jan., 2008 regarding claim construction.

Law Firms:           

Kilpatrick Stockton, Atlanta, GA for defendant Motorola Inc., and Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, LLP, Washington, DC for defendants Ryder Truck Rental, Teletrac, Inc.

Opposing counsel:       Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

 Lending Tree LLC v. LowerMyBills, Inc.

United States District Court, Western District of North Carolina Charlotte Division

Civil Action No.         3:05CV153-C

Matter:                  Patent Infringement – credit analysis.

Technical Issues:  

Technology and code analysis for web sites

Responsibilities:   

Wrote infringement and invalidity rebuttal reports. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding infringement, September 2006. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding Invalidity rebuttal report, November, 2006

Law Firm:            

King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA for plaintiff.

Trilogy Software, Inc. v Selectica, Inc.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division

Civil Action No. 2-04-CV-160 (TJW).  Judge T. John Ward

Matter:                  Internet eCommerce patent litigation.

Technical Issues:  

Web server interaction with client browsers.

Responsibilities:   

Research non-infringement issues in cross complaint. Testified as an expert witness at deposition regarding Trilogy’s proposed claim construction.  Wrote expert declaration in support of claim construction, expert reports regarding invalidity and non-infringement.

Law Firm:            

McKool Smith, Dallas, TX for defendant in cross complaint.

Opposing counsel:       Howrey Simon Arnold & White; Ireland Carroll and Kelley, PC., Jones & Jones; Brown McCarroll LLP.

Inxight Software, Inc. v. Verity, Inc.

United States District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco

Civil Action No.         C 05-01660 CRB  Judge Charles R. Breyer

Matter:                  Contract dispute regarding licensed software products.

Technical Issues:  

Software architecture.

Responsibilities:   

Research C++ and Java software architecture.

Wrote expert opinion on technical software implementation issues for large server-based linguistic analysis systems. Testified as an expert witness in deposition..

Law Firm:            

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Palo Alto , for defendant.

Opposing counsel:       Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Neoris de Mexico v. Ariba, Inc.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of CA, San Francisco Division.

Case No. C 02 1670 JSW

Matter:                  Breach of warranty and contract.

Technical Issues:  

B2B marketplaces and exchange design and development

Responsibilities:   

Wrote expert opinion and testified as an expert witness at deposition on behalf of defendant.

Law Firm:            

Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, CA for defendant.

Opposing counsel:       Legal Strategies Group

E-Centives v. Coupons, Inc.

U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, Northern Division

Civil Action No. RDB-02-CV3701

Matter:                  Web software patent infringement.

Technical Issues:  

Microsoft ASP web servers, user tracking and consumer web services.

Responsibilities:   

Conducted technical research on software implementation, wrote expert opinion regarding invalidity, wrote rebuttal opinion re non-infringement, and testified as an expert witness at deposition on behalf of defendant.

Law Firm: 

Foley & Lardner, Washington , DC for defendant Rader, Fishman & Grauer, Washington , DC       

Opposing counsel:       Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo

Acacia Media Technologies Corp. v. New Destiny Internet Group

U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Southern Division

Case No. SA CV 02-1040 JW (MLGx)

Matter:                  Streaming multimedia systems patent litigation.

Technical Issues:  

Implementation of web-based multimedia encoding.

Responsibilities:   

Conducted research, created technology tutorial for Markman hearings; wrote an expert declaration on video compression technology. Testified as an expert witness in deposition.

Disposition:           Completed work in Sept 2005.

Law Firm:            

 Hennigan Bennett & Dorman, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.

Opposing counsel:       Foley & Lardner, Fish & Richardson

MicroStrategy Incorporated v. Business Objects Americas, Crystal Decisions

 United States District Court, for the District of Delaware.

Civil Action No. 03-1124-KAJ

Matter:                  Web server report automation patent litigation.

Technical Issues:  

Web server interaction with client browsers.

Responsibilities:   

 Analysis of source code to determine infringement issues. Wrote Infringement expert report and Validity rebuttal report. Contributed to claim construction. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding infringement and invalidity rebuttal.

Law Firm:            

Howrey Simon Arnold & White, Washington D.C. for plaintiff.

Opposing counsel: Townsend Townsend & Crew Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP

Datamize Inc. v. Charles Schwab & Co., CyberTrader, Inc.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division

Civil Action No. 2:03-CV-321 Judge David Folsom.

Matter:                  User interface patent infringement.

Technical Issues:  

 Interpretation of software design and implementation for applications involving graphical user interfaces (GUI) allowing various degrees of built-in flexibility.

Responsibilities:   

Assisted lawyers with interpretation of patent specification, and contributed to claim construction terms as a computer expert. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding indefinite terms. Wrote tutorial and declaration in support of defendant’s claim construction brief. Attended Markman Hearing and assisted attorneys with preparation.

Law Firm:            

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, New York, NY for defendant.

Opposing counsel: McKool Smith

Cogent Systems, Inc. v. Northrop Grumman Corporation

Superior Court of State of California

Los Angeles Superior Court, Central District

Civil Action No.         BC332199

Matter:                  Breach of Contract, Misappropriation of Trade Secrets

Technical Issues:  

Technology and code analysis for automated fingerprint recognition.

Responsibilities:   

Analysis of source code and system architecture.

Law Firm:            

Parker Milliken Clark O’Hara Samuelian and Hennigan Bennett & Dorman for plaintiff.

Opposing counsel: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP