Jason Frankovitz is a software engineering expert with over 30 years of experience. He has consulted on more than 148 lawsuits, ranging from small private prosecutions to major governmental class actions, and has testified under oath in more than 36 cases in the United States and Canada. He has worked for plaintiffs and defendants in federal, provincial, and international cases involving infringement of software patents, copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and large privacy class actions.
As Director of Expert Witness Services in Canada, Jason manages the Vancouver BC office, developing new business, evaluating potential hires, and managing staff working on Canadian cases.
Jason’s specialties include open-source software such as GNU/Linux, version control and release management, test-driven development, continuous integration, and Internet and mobile programming. He started college at the University of Southern California and completed his degree at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he coded his first Web application, itList.com—one of the earliest Web-based bookmark sites on the Internet. After moving to Boston, he brought itList to Main Street Partners LLC as Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Joe Hadzima of MIT. itList later created significant prior art used in multiple patent cases.
Jason’s Internet startups adopted cutting-edge technologies like cloud-based server scaling and machine learning (AI). He is the inventor of U.S. Patent 9,858,341, a system for targeting social media ads based on user-generated content. His background in social media and user-generated content has also enabled him to consult on multiple class-action cases against Facebook, including the Illinois Biometric Protection Act of 2008 (BIPA) lawsuit.
