Isaac Pflaum | Senior Director of Software Litigation

Isaac Pflaum

Senior Director of Software Litigation

Isaac Pflaum is an IT litigation consultant and source code reviewer who specializes in advising clients on patent, copyright, trade secret, breach-of-contract, and software procurement failure.

Mr. Pflaum has testified as an expert in deposition and trial and has extensive experience reviewing and reverse engineering software source code, architecture, and designs. He has reviewed and rendered opinions relating to source code written in a variety of programming languages and relating to a broad range of technologies, including mobile and IoT devices, industrial and automotive controls, consumer and medical devices, e-commerce, and enterprise systems and websites.

As an attorney and registered patent agent, Mr. Pflaum has professional experience in financial services and software development.

Summary of Qualifications
  • Served as a software expert witness in more than 60 cases including more than 20 intellectual property cases and a dozen breach of contract cases.
  • Has been deposed as an expert witness in a patent infringement case.
  • Has authored numerous expert reports in intellectual property cases and other types.
  • Has been retained and provided expert opinions on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants.
  • Has served as an expert in International Trade Commission (ITC) investigations, in addition to federal and state court cases.
  • Admission to practice: State Bar of Virginia (2018),  State Bar of California (2013)
  • Holds a Master of Law (LLM.), International Business and Economic Law, from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
  • Received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
  • Completed his M.S. in Computational Chemistry, and B.S. in Biology and Chemistry, at Stony Brook University, NY
Areas of Expertise
  • Networking and protocols
    TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, IMAP/POP/SMTP, DNS
  • Wireless devices and mobile apps
    Android, iOS, Windows Mobile
  • Programming and software development
    Java, C/C++, C#, GoLang, Objective C (iOS), Swift, Kotlin, Visual Basic, COBOL, Assembly, Fortran, VHDL
    Eclipse, Visual Studio, SlickEdit, .NET
  • Internet applications and websites
    Perl, Python, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, AJAX, Node.js, ASP.NET, Ruby
  • Hardware description and controllers
    Verilog, CodeSys, MatLab
  • Databases
    RDBMS, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, PostgreSQL
  • Operating systems and servers
    Linux, Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, Apache, Chrome
  • Litigation support
    Conducts software design/source code inspection and review.
    Provides expert witness testimony at trials and depositions in cases pertaining to:

    • intellectual property and patent infringement
    • software failure
    • government software procurement disputes
    • breach-of-contract and non-performance claims
    • computer forensics
    • metadata analysis
  • Industry specific
    • Automotive systems (e.g., electronic throttle and braking controls)
    • Cryptographic protocols, cryptocurrencies, and peer-to-peer messaging systems
    • E-commerce and enterprise systems and websites, including SaaS, COTS, OOTB
    • Medical and analytical devices and electronic medical record databases
Testifying Engagements
  • Chase Global Services v. Protech Solutions Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: AR Civil Division, Circuit Court of Pulaski County
    Case Number: 60-cv-19-739 Counsel: McDaniel Wolff PLLC
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
    Expert Role: Expert report, deposition
    Technology: Child support enforcement administration software solution
  • United States v. Confidential Defendant |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
    Nature of Suit: Criminal
    Expert Role: Expert report
    Technology: Custom software and hardware for AI datacenter
  • KBranch v. BSI3 Menu Buyer, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: Superior Court of the State of Delaware
    Case Number: N23C-10-021
    Counsel: Goodwin Procter LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Expert report, deposition
    Technology: Google Business Profiles integration software
  • Beaver Research Company v. The Huntington National Bank |
    Jurisdiction: Circuit Court of Missouri, County of Kalamazoo
    Case Number: 2024-0267-CB
    Counsel: Kreis Enderle Hudgins & Borsos, P.C.
    Nature of Suit: Negligence
    Expert Role: Expert report
    Technology: ACH intra-bank transfer fraud detection software
  • Vimo, Inc. d/b/a GetInsured v. Deloitte Consulting LLP |
    Jurisdiction: Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara
    Case Number: G-24-7-NA, 22CV405262
    Counsel: Kirkland & Ellis LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret, Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Expert report
    Technology: ACA and Medicaid enrollment software solution
  • iSpot.TV, Inc. v. Nadya Teyfukova, and Entertainment Data Oracle, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
    Case Number: 2:21-cv-06815
    Counsel: Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret, Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Declaration, rebuttal report, deposition
    Technology: Automated Content Recognition (ACR) and syndicated real-time ad airings software
  • WIPRO Limited v. First Data Government Solutions, LP |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska
    Case Number: 4:22-cv-03116-JMG-MDN (filed July 1, 2022)
    Counsel: Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Deposition, opening and rebuttal reports
    Technology: IBM Cúram Enterprise Modules and social program management platform (Java)
  • Best Ring, LLC, et al. v. Ronin POS, LLC, et al. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas Waco Division
    Case Number: 6:22-cv-00766-ADA (filed July 11, 2022)
    Counsel: Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee, PLLC
    Nature of Suit: Patent, Copyright, Trade Secret
    Expert Role: Expert report
    Technology: Point of Sale (POS) software and hardware solution
  • Coinmint v. Katena |
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association
    Case Number: 01-22-0001-7627 – 20427 (filed August 29, 2022)
    Counsel: Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract, Fraud
    Expert Role: Deposition, opening and rebuttal reports
    Technology: Custom designed ASICs for cryptocurrency mining operations
  • Enigmatus, s.r.o. v. Playtika Ltd. et al. |
    Jurisdiction: Federal Court of Canada (Ottawa)
    Case Number: T-2085-16 (filed December 2, 2016)
    Counsel: Dipchand LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trademark
    Expert Role: Deposition, expert report
    Technology: Mobile application development, gaming, Web Application Protocol, geolocation
  • Wipro Limited v. State of Nebraska |
    Jurisdiction: District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska
    Case Number: D02CI190000676 (filed March 4, 2019)
    Counsel: Cline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Deposition, opening and rebuttal expert reports
    Technology: IBM Cúram Enterprise Modules and social program management platform (Java)
  • FinancialApps LLC v. Envestnet, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 19-1337-CFC-CJB (filed July 17, 2019)
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret Misappropriation
    Expert Role: Deposition, opening and rebuttal expert reports, affidavits relating to discovery and production disputes
    Technology: Consumer financial data processing and credit reporting (Golang, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, MongoDB)
  • Penrose Hill, Limited et al. v. Mabray |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
    Case Number: 4:20-cv-01169 (filed February 14, 2020)
    Nature of Suit: Libel
    Expert Role: Expert report, declaration relating to discovery and production disputes
    Technology: Social media posting forensic acquisition
  • VoterLabs, Inc. v. Ethos Group Consulting Services LLC |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:19-cv-00524 (filed March 15, 2019)
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Declaration relating to discovery and production disputes
    Technology: Customer profiling and product recommendation (Python, TypeScript, SQL, JavaScript)
  • Morris Development, Inc. v. Extreme Impact, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: Superior Court of California
    Case Number: 16CV003781 (filed November 23, 2016)
    Nature of Suit: Copyright and Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Trial, deposition and expert report
    Technology: Comparison of source code and architecture of Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) .Net applications
  • Lisa M. Ostella v. Orly Taitz |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
    Case Number: 8:11-cv-00485 (filed March 29, 2011)
    Nature of Suit: Libel
    Expert Role: Expert declarations
    Technology: Forensic acquisition and analysis of blog and Twitter postings, internet archive records and robots.txt directives
  • Certain Road Milling Machines and Components Thereof |
    Jurisdiction: International Trade Commission (ITC)
    Case Number: 337-TA-1067 (filed July 10, 2017)
    Retained by: Wirtgen America
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Expert Role: Trial, deposition and expert report
    Technology: Sensor inputs and actuator controls over CAN bus and controller source code (CodeSys, MatLab, C)
  • Golden et al. v. Clear Advantage Marketing, et al. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
    Case Number: 4:2016-cv-00529 (filed September 30, 2016)
    Retained by: G2 Database Marketing
    Nature of Suit: Copyright, Trade Secret
    Expert Role: Deposition and opening and rebuttal expert reports
    Technology: Functional and presentation layer comparison of financial reporting applications and reporting products
  • Robert Nekoroski et al. v. Shajy Mathai et al. |
    Jurisdiction: CA
    Case Number: 1184CV04315 (filed November 29, 2011)
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
    Expert Role: Opening and rebuttal expert reports
    Technology: Insurance portfolio risk modeling and assessment
Litigation Consulting
  • Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. v. Adonis Acquisition Holdings LLC |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:25-cv-00166
    Counsel: McGuireWoods LLP
    Nature of Suit: Copyright
  • River Valley Cooperative v. Jacob Johnson and Gold Star FS, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: Illinois Circuit Court, Henry County
    Case Number: 2025LA19
    Counsel: Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
  • Shopify Inc. v. Shopline Tech. Holdings Pte. Ltd., Shopline US, Inc., and Sinoxpress Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
    Case Number: 1:24-cv-03691
    Counsel: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    Nature of Suit: Copyright
  • Jolo Jobs, Inc. v. Tangocode, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois
    Case Number: 2024L013978
    Counsel: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
  • Revenue Management Solutions, LLC v. Commerce Bank |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
    Case Number: 4:25-cv-00140
    Counsel: Banner Witcoff
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
    Technology: Accounting and payroll software
  • Apkudo, Inc. v. Monirul Quasem, et al. |
    Jurisdiction: American Arbitration Association
    Case Number: 01-24-0003-0907
    Counsel: Kagan Stern Marinello & Beard, LLC
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret, Computer Fraud
    Technology: Mobile phone grading and testing software
  • Certain Wireless Communication Devices and Components Thereof: International Semiconductor Group v. Dell, HP, Lenovo |
    Jurisdiction: International Trade Commission (ITC)
    Case Number: 337-TA-1429
    Counsel: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Technology: Wifi 5 and 6 optional features
  • MaddenCo, Inc. v. HG AutoTech LLC |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
    Case Number: 3:22-cv-00173-RLY-MPB (filed 10/31/22)
    Counsel: Delk McNally LLP; Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Copyright; Third-party Neutral
    Technology: Tire inventory management software
  • Lexos Media IP, LLC v. Northern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
    Case Number: 2:22-cv-00355 (filed September 12, 2022)
    Counsel:Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Technology: Ecommerce web application photo display
  • K+S Potash Canada General Partnership v. Veolia Water Technologies Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: Court of King’s Bench for Saskatchewan
    Case Number: QB No. 817 (filed 2018)
    Counsel: Stikeman Elliott LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Consulting Expert
    Technology: Plant Design Management Systems (PDMS), Clash Detection, Database synchronization
  • Content Engines, LLC v. Rumble USA, Inc., & Rumble Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
    Case Number: 8:22-cv-01949 (filed August 24, 2022)
    Counsel: Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP.
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: Content Delivery Network (CDN), video streaming, RAID storage
  • Robotic Vision Technologies Inc. v. ABB Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:22-cv-01257 (filed September 9, 2022)
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC
    Nature of Suit: Patent, Trade Secret and Copyright Infringement
    Technology: Robotic computer vision, gripper targeting, feature selection and identification
  • Espíritu Santo Holdings, LP & L1bre Holding, LLC v. United Mexican States |
    Jurisdiction: ICSID
    Case Number: ARB/20/13 – 20417 (filed September 17, 2021)
    Counsel: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
    Nature of Suit: Investor-State Arbitration
    Technology: Mobile phone applications, ride hailing services
  • The Nielsen Company, LLC v. TVision Insights, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:22-cv-00057 (filed January 14, 2022)
    Counsel: Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP.
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: Multimedia fingerprinting, reverse engineering, decompilation
  • Svoboda v. Amazon, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
    Case Number: 1:21-cv-05336 (filed February 25, 2022)
    Counsel: Keogh Law, Ltd.
    Nature of Suit: Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA)
    Technology: Augmented Reality, Machine Vision, Face Tracking
  • Allscripts Healthcare, LLC v. Andor Health, LLC |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:21-cv-00707-MAK (filed August 6, 2021)
    Counsel: Locke Lord LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
    Technology: EHR, Mobile Patient Experience (MPE) applications
  • Vound Colorado, Ltd. and Vound LLC v. E-Hounds, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:21-cv-00849-UNA (filed June 14, 2021)
    Counsel: Marshall Dennehey
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract, Trademark
    Technology: While-label software, HASP licensing
  • Blue Island Industrial, LLC v. Sigma DT, LLC |
    Jurisdiction: Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division
    Case Number: 1-22-1802
    Counsel: The Cosentino Law Firm
    Nature of Suit: Rent Abatement
    Technology: PDF modification date forensics
  • Hlfip Holding, Inc. d/b/a Smart Communications IP Holdings v. York County, Pennsylvania |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
    Case Number: 1:20-cv-001866-CCC (filed February 3, 2020)
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: Telecommunications, OCR scanning, document processing
  • Provisur Technologies, Inc. v. Weber, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
    Case Number: 5:19-cv-6021 (filed February 22, 2019)
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: PLC controller for robotic food packaging equipment (C++, CodeSys)
  • Certain Vehicle Controls Systems, Vehicles Containing the Same, and Components Thereof |
    Jurisdiction: International Trade Commission (ITC)
    Case Number: 337-TA-1235 (filed November 19, 2020)
    Retained by: Volkswagen America
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: CAN bus communication of terrain selection data to vehicle suspension, breaking and transmission control subsystems (C++)
  • Jaguar Land Rover v. Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. International Trade Commission, Washington, D.C
    Case Number: 337-TA-1235
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent infringement
  • Aetna Inc., et al. v. Mednax Inc., et al. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
    Case Number: 2:18-cv-02217 (filed May 25, 2018)
    Counsel: Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP
    Technology: Billing support business logic
    Nature of Suit: Medical Billing Fraud
  • Robillard v. Opal Labs, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Portland Division
    Case Number: 3:16-cv-00780 (filed May 5, 2016)
    Counsel: Buchanan Angeli Altschul & Sullivan LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret Misappropriation
    Technology: Investigation of the GitHub and Internet archives using ElasticSearch to search over 800 million records
  • Comcast Cable Communications LLC v. Veveo, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB)
    Case Number: IPR 2019-00237 (filed November 12, 2018) and IPR 2019-00290 (filed November 12, 2018)
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: Cable set top box predictive text entry and product search (C++)
  • Sequoia Technology, LLC v. Dell Inc., et al. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:18-cv-01127 (filed July 31, 2018)
    Nature of Suit: Patent Misappropriation
    Technology: RedHat Logical volume management (LVM), Windows Logical Disk Manager (LDM), Windows Storage Spaces, Oracle ZFS, MacOS Apple RAID
  • Alaimo v. Simpson |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
    Case Number: 2:00-cv-01251 (filed June 29, 2000)
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: Forensic acquisition of social media postings from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
  • Arendi S.A.R.I. v. Motorola Mobility LLC, et al. (W.D. Wash) |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:12-cv-01601-LPS (filed March 10, 2013)
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: Mobile phone applications for Android (Java and Kotlin), iOS (Objective C and Swift) and Blackberry (C++); Subversion (SVN) source code version control system
  • In re Intuit Free File Litigation |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
    Case Number: 3:19-cv-02546 (filed May 12, 2019)
    Retained by: Plaintiff
    Nature of Suit: Class Action
    Technology: Multi-site web application (HTML and JavaScript) and robots.txt directives
  • TRUSTID, Inc. v. Next Caller Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
    Case Number: 1:18-cv-00172 (filed January 30, 2018)
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: Call-number- spoofing and fraud detection using SIP data processing, call screening and applied machine learning (ML) (Python, VOIP, AWS)
  • Property Solutions International, Inc. v. Yardi Systems |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
    Case Number: 2:15-cv-00102
    Counsel: Morrison & Foerster, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
    Technology: Property, lease and tenant management systems
  • AGIS Software Development LLC v. LG Electronics, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
    Case Number: 2:17-cv-00515 (filed June 21, 2017)
    Counsel: Arnold & Porter
    Nature of Suit: Patent Infringement
    Technology: Peer to peer messaging mobile phone applications for Android (Java), iOS (Objective-C), and Windows Phone (C++) and backend server application (C++)
  • Securus Technologies, Inc. v. Global Tel*Link Corporation |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
    Case Number: 3:16-cv-01338 (filed May 13, 2016)
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Technology: VOIP call processing, monitoring, biometrics, billing (Java, C++)
  • Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) v. IBM |
    Jurisdiction: PA
    Case Number: 2017-cv-1740 (filed March 9, 2017)
    Counsel: Duane Morris, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Technology: IBM solution for Unemployment Compensation Modernization System (“UCMS”) (OS/2, Db2, Java)
  • Certain Computing or Graphics Systems, Components Thereof, and Vehicles Containing Same |
    Jurisdiction: International Trade Commission (ITC)
    Case Number: 337-TA-984 (filed December 20, 2015)
    Retained by: Volkswagen America
    Counsel: Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Technology: Northbridge controller, memory controller, DRAM access scheduling and prioritization functions (VHDL)
  • Kemper Corporate Services Inc. v. Computer Sciences Corporation et al. |
    Jurisdiction: AAA Arbitration
    Counsel: Sidley Austin
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Expert Role: Expert affidavit
    Technology: COBOL to Java conversion
  • CAP CO, Ltd v. McAfee, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
    Case Number: 14-cv-05068-JD (filed June 26, 2015)
    Counsel: Perkins Coie
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Technology: Antivirus and firewall
  • Hoskin Hogan, et al., v. BP West Coast Products LLC, et al. |
    Jurisdiction: CA
    Case Number: BC460880 (filed 2011)
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Technology: Point of Sale (POS)
  • Michael Mohr v. Science and Engineering Services, LLC |
    Jurisdiction: Northern District of Alabama
    Case Number: 5:14-cv-00045 (filed January 9, 2014)
    Nature of Suit: Copyright
    Technology: Source code comparaison, scènes à faire analysais
  • Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. v. American Home Realty Network, Inc. |
    Jurisdiction: Northern District ofAlabama
    Case Number: 5:14-cv-00045 (filed January 9, 2014)
    Retained by: Science and Engineering Services, LLC
    Counsel: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
    Nature of Suit: Copyright
    Technology: Database compilation and schema in copyright deposits
  • County of Orange v. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., et al. |
    Jurisdiction: CA
    Case Number: 8:13-cv-00683 (filed April 30, 2013)
    Counsel: Theodora Oringher PC
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract, Fraud
    Technology: Property tax management system (Visual Studio .Net, C++, SQL)
  • The Studer Group v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
    Jurisdiction: Northern District of Ohio
    Case Number: 1:10-cv-01957 (filed September 2, 2010)
    Nature of Suit: Trade Secret
    Technology: Patient engagement, survey and services marketing
  • CGI v. eHealth Ontario |
    Jurisdiction: Private Arbitration
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Technology: Diabetes Registry system implementation, HP Quality Center (HPQC)
  • Sam’s West, Inc. v. Aloni |
    Jurisdiction: Western District of Arkansas
    Case Number: 5:13-cv-05144 (filed July 15, 2013)
    Nature of Suit: Media Licensing
    Technology: Internet Archive, image and text scanning, micro-site and platform specific targeting
  • California State Comptroller’s Office (SCO) v. SAP Public Services |
    Jurisdiction: CA
    Case Number: 34-2013-00154918 (filed November 21, 2013)
    Counsel: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Breach of Contract
    Technology: Payroll processing, SAP, HP Quality Center, JIRA
  • BioLumix, Incorporated v. Centrus International, Incorporated |
    Jurisdiction: Eastern District of Michigan
    Case Number: 2:08-cv-11418 (filed April 2, 2008)
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Technology: Laboratory analytical device firmware
  • Westlake Services LLC d/b/a Westlake Financial Services v. Credit Acceptance Corporation |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeals Board
    Case Number: CBM2014-000008 (filed October 11, 2013)
    Counsel: Fish & Tsang, LLP
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Technology: Auto loan underwriting and processing (FoxPro)
  • Symantec Corporation v. Veeam Software Corporation |
    Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
    Case Number: C 12-00700 SI (filed May. 31, 2012)
    Nature of Suit: Patent
    Technology: VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V
Intellectual Property Consulting
  • Confidential Analysis of Cyber-Security Incident |
    Counsel: Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP
    Nature of Consultation: Pre-Litigation Analysis
  • Pre-litigation Patent Infringement Assessment |
    Technology: mobile gaming, geolocation, user and device verification, jailbreak detection, proxy detection, Bluetooth beacon, ad delivery, biometric authentication.
  • Confidential Investigation |
    Nature of suit: Illinois Biometric information Privacy Act (BIPA)
    Technology: optical fingerprint readers and time clocks, network traffic capture, SQL monitoring.
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