Alexus Computer Consulting

Jury Testimony

Expert Witness testimony for patent cases involving various programming languages such as Visual Basic, VBA, ASP, .NET, C, C++ and Java, as well as web server and web browser implementation technology.

WhitServe LLC, v. Computer Packages, Inc.

US District Court, Southern District of Connecticut

Civil Action No.         3:06CV01935 (AVC)

Matter:                        Patent infringement - web document services.

Technical Issues:  

Analysis of MS Access VBA, ASP, .NET code and web technology.

Responsibilities:   

Prepare non-infringement and invalidity reports on behalf of defendant Computer Packages, Inc. Testified in deposition regarding invalidity and non-infringement reports, Sept. 2007.  Testified as an expert witness in jury trial May, 2010 regarding invalidity and non-infringement.

Law Firm:            

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, New York, for defendant CPI.

Opposing counsel: St. Onge Steward Johnson & Reens, CT

Data TreasuryCorporation v. Wells Fargo, The Clearing House Payments Co., et al.

Civil Action No.         Civil Action No. 2:06-CV-72 (Hon. David Folsom)

Matter:                  eCommerce patent litigation.

Technical Issues:  

eCommerce software; data encryption and authentication technology including IPSec, PGP, SSL, key exchange and Message Authentication Codes; TCP/IP networking.

Responsibilities:

Invalidity report, non-infringement report. Deposition testimony December, 2009.

Testified as an expert witness in jury trial on behalf of defendant The Clearing House March 24, 2010 regarding non-infringement.

Law Firm:            

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, New York, and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP for defendant Clearing House Payments.

Opposing counsel: Ostrow Kaufman Frankl, New York, Ward & Smith, TX, Nix Patterson Roach, TX.

epicRealm Licensing, LLC (Parallel Networks) v. Autoflex Leasing, Franklin Covey, Clark Consulting, Herbalife of America, Various Inc.

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

Civil Action Nos.        5:07-CV-125, 5:07-CV-126, 5:07-CV-135 (Hon. David Folsom)

Matter:                  Web technology patent litigation.

Technical Issues:  

Web site implementation

Responsibilities:   

Retained by Franklin Covey, Co., Clark Consulting, Inc., Herbalife of America, Various, Inc. Researched specific non-infringement issues; wrote declaration on support of motion to dismiss, and testified in deposition Dec., 2007 regarding that declaration. Testified in deposition regarding non-infringement by Herbalife (June 2008) and Various Inc., (July 2008).

Testified as an expert witness in jury trial on behalf of defendant FriendFinder in the jury trial Parallel Networks v. Various, FriendFinder August 20, 2008 regarding non-infringement and non-infringing alternatives.

Law Firms:           

Vedder Price, Chicago, IL; Jones Day, New York, NY; Pepper Hamilton, Boston, MA, Fenwick & West, San Francisco, for defendants.

Opposing counsel:       Baker Botts.

Dell USA, LP v. Lucent Technologies, Inc

US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division

Civil Action No.  C.A. 4:03-cv-347.  (Hon. Richard A. Schell.)

Matter:                  Patent infringement - configurator applications for manufacturing.

Technical Issues:  

Analysis of configurator algorithms, software automation.

Responsibilities:   

Invalidity and non-infringement report on behalf of defendant Lucent Technologies. Testified as an expert witness in deposition regarding non-infringement and invalidity, Sept. 2007. Testified as an expert witness in jury trial on Jan. 29-30, 2008 regarding non-infringement and invalidity.

Law Firm:            

Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, New York, NY , for defendant.

Opposing counsel: Haynes & Boone, Dallas, TX

Orion IP LLC v. Mercedes-Benz USA et al

US District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division.

Civil Action No.         6:05-cv-322 (Hon. Leonard Davis)

Matter:                  Patent Infringement – automated proposal generation.

Technical Issues:  

Technology and analysis for web sites.

Responsibilities:   

Wrote non-infringement report regarding Hyundai Motor America web sites. Testified in deposition regarding non-infringement report.

Testified as an expert witness in jury trial, May 24, 2007 regarding non-infringement, primarily for the ‘342 patent. 

Law Firm:            

Jackson Walker L.L.P., Dallas, TX  for defendant

Opposing counsel: Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C., and Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, LLP, Houston, TX

Amer Jneid et al v. Novell Inc., Tripole Corporation

Superior Court of State of California County of Orange

Civil Action No.         02CC00182  (Hon. David C. Velasquez)

Matter:                  Breach of contract.

Technical Issues:  

Networking technology code analysis

Responsibilities:   

Analysis of source code for Novell product implementations.  Testified at deposition on behalf of defendant Tripole Corp. Testified as an expert witness in Jury trial, November 2006.

Law Firm:

Waldron & Olson,  Newport Beach, CA , for Tripole Corp.

Opposing counsel:       Workman Nydegger, UT.

CyberNET Engineering v. Con-Way Transportation

Circuit Court of the State of Oregon , for the County of Multnomah

Case No. 0107-07220, April 7-8, 2003

Matter:                  Contract dispute.

Technical issues:

Local area network design and implementation for 300 service centers.

Responsibilities:   

Researched relevant networking issues and testified as an expert witness at jury trial on behalf of plaintiff.

Law Firm:            

Martin Bischoff Templeton Langslet, Portland, OR , for plaintiff