Dr. Sacerdoti
is a highly effective expert witness and consultant supporting software
litigation. He has served as a litigation consultant and/or expert witness in
eight cases – five involving software patent litigation and three disputes
regarding contractual issues concerning complex software products and
professional services. His activities on these cases included patent claim
analysis, prior art research, technical analysis of commercial software
systems, assessment of performance under warranties, and assessment of
performance to professional standards. He has been deposed for over 75 hours,
served as a testifying expert at a jury trial and at hearings before Special
Masters and arbitrators, prepared expert reports, prepared expert declarations,
and provided advice and analysis.
The patent cases addressed these technologies:
Dr. Sacerdoti is an internationally known expert in Artificial Intelligence
(AI), and has had a variety of roles in the software industry for 40 years. He
can speak with technical authority about many advanced software technologies,
and about many aspects of the commercial software business, including product
design, product development, licensing and distribution agreements, quality
assurance, professional service agreements, research and development, joint
ventures, Small Business Innovation Research grants, and issues involved in
founding, bootstrapping, and funding software businesses. His clients have
included both major industry players such as
Contact us for enthusiastic references regarding this service.
Details about the cases:
I consulted for Morrison & Foerster as their sole expert. The litigation concerned infringement of a patent for automated configuration of complex products.
I consulted for Haynes & Boone. The litigation concerned performance under contract of a professional services group of a configuration software vendor.
I consulted for Haynes & Boone. The litigation concerned performance under contract of a product and associated services by a vendor of supply chain automation software.
I consulted for SAP, working with Morgan, Lewis, and Bockius as their sole expert. The litigation concerned infringement of several patents for expert systems development tools.
I consulted for Heller, Ehrman, White, and McCaulliffe as one of three expert witnesses, with a primary focus on expert systems technologies as applied to manufacturing. The case concerned infringement of several patents concerning expert systems and automated process control.
I consulted for Venable LLC as an expert witness regarding the market and technical environment for application servers and Web Services technologies. The litigation concerned infringement of a patent on object broker technology.
I consulted for Tucker Ellis and
I consulted for Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom as an expert witness on invalidity and inequitable conduct regarding three patents concerning automated configuration of computer systems. I reviewed prior art, relevant license agreements, and source code (in C, C++, and Nexpert Object), prepared expert reports, was deposed, and testified before the jury at trial.
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