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Barr Group's consumer electronics expert witnesses advise attorneys in class action and other litigation. Our experts have hands-on experience designing consumer electronics devices such as set-top boxes, fitness monitors, digital cameras, and laser printers. We have testified in high-profile multi-million dollar disputes.
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Consumer Technology Products
Barr Group is in the business of designing reliable and secure computers and we have software engineers with hands-on experience designing consumer electronics such as:
- Smart TVs and smart speakers from Google, Amazon, and Apple
- Set-top boxes for cable and satellite television
- Digital Video Recording (DVR) technology such as TiVo
- Gaming consoles like Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo
- iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, including Samsung Galaxy
- Video games for consoles and mobile phones, PCs, and browsers
- Personal computers and laptops from Dell, Lenovo, Apple, Google, etc.
- Peripheral devices from Bluetooth headsets to MIDI music instruments
- Printers and scanners including multi-function copiers and 3-D printers
- Unmanned aerial drones as well as other digital cameras
- Smart watches, fitness trackers, and heart-rate monitors
- Smart home appliances and other products with software inside
Barr Group's software experts are familiar with all of the major technologies used to design consumer electronics products including the Windows, Android, iOS, and Linux operating systems and programming languages, such as assembly, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, and Java. And we are equally comfortable reviewing electronic circuits and schematic drawings.
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Expert Witness Services
Barr Group's consumer electronics experts support plaintiffs and defendants in litigation in U.S. District Courts, at the International Trade Commission (ITC), and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Our services include:
- Technical assistance with drafting of discovery requests
- Software source code review and analysis
- Source code comparisons for copyright and trade secret theft
- Prior art review for patent invalidity
- Analysis of electronics and related design documents
- Reverse engineering, including disassembly of binary code
- Forensic analysis, including electronic data recovery
- Expert reports, declarations, and witness statements
- Testimony at deposition, oral hearings, and trials
Barr Group has a demonstrated ability to quickly activate one or more code experts to match the size, scope, and complexity of any project.
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Advanced Military Radar Systems Expert Profile
LLM Generative A.I. and Chatbot Expert Profile
Augmented Reality Wearables Expert Profile
Wireless Power Transfer Expert Profile
Spread Spectrum Communications Expert Profile
Semiconductor Fabrication Expert Profile
Handheld Operating Systems Expert Profile
Airbag and Vehicle Telematics Expert Profile
Fingerprint Biometric Systems Expert Profile
Streaming Multimedia Expert Profile
Image and Facial Recognition Expert Profile
Video Game & Casino Gaming Expert Profile
Online and Casino Gaming Expert Profile
Battery Design & Testing Expert Profile
Experienced electrochemist, consultant, and adjunct professor of materials science and engineering. Has extensive experience in research and industry for battery electronics, including new product development, manufacturing and testing, applications engineering, as well as battery system design.
Battery Failure Electrochemistry Expert Profile
Chemist and consultant with four decades of experience in the area of electrochemical energy related devices, including batteries, capacitors, fuel cells, electrolysis and corrosion. Has significant expertise in laptop, cell phone, and e-cigarette batteries, electric vehicles, and other applications of electrochemical energy storage. Expert working knowledge of electronics and laboratory instrumentation as applied to the testing of batteries, chargers, and battery-powered devices.
Cellular Wireless Air Interface Expert Profile
Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with decades of R&D experience in communications networks and wireless signal detection and estimation.
Speech & Voice Recognition Expert Profile
Haptic Input & Virtual Reality Expert Profile
Professor of engineering with decades of experience developing novel technologies and expertise in virtual reality, streaming multimedia, image processing and computer vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
Aircraft Avionics Software Expert Profile
FAA-certified Designated Engineering Representative (DER), flight instructor, and commercial pilot and former director of engineering and chief software architect for next generation cockpit flight displays.
Acoustics & Audio Processing Expert Profile
Professor of electrical engineering who has spent over two decades researching and inventing algorithms at the intersection of acoustics, digital signal processing, and machine learning.
Medical Image Processing Expert Profile
Research scientist and independent consultant with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and specialized expertise in signal, image, video, and content processing and data compression.
Distributed Sensor Networks Expert Profile
Professor of computer science with specialized expertise in network quality of service, routing, and visualization as well as remote sensing.
Surveillance Camera Networks Expert Profile
Stanford-educated professor of electrical engineering and computer science whose career in industry began at AT&T Bell Labs and has specialized expertise in cyber-physical systems, IoT technologies, and computer vision.
Manufacturing Automated Test Expert Profile
Registered Professional Engineer (PE) with several decades of hands-on industry experience developing products and software for industrial, consumer, enterprise, military, and medical applications.
Virtual Reality Worlds & Gaming Expert Profile
Flash Memories & Filesystems Expert Profile
Digital Signature & Document Expert Profile
Former computer science professor who taught courses in operating system and compiler design and also designed datacom equipment for decades.
Naval & Underwater Systems Expert Profile
Engineering consultant with nearly thirty years of hands-on software development experience designing products ranging from autonomous underwater robots to cable modems and set-top boxes.
Linux-Based Computer Systems Expert Profile
Space and Satellite Systems Expert Profile
Adjunct professor of computer science and independent consultant with decades of experience in the field of telecommunications and information security. Has specialized technical expertise in GPS, VPNs, digital and analog electronics including RF signals and antennas, data communications and networks including fiber-optics, cellular protocols, and communication satellites.
Smartphone Software & Apps Expert Profile
Computer engineer and consultant with more than two decades of industry experience developing software for embedded systems and mobile apps powered by Android, Linux, Windows, and real-time operating systems such as VxWorks.
Video Encoding & Streaming Expert Profile
PhD electrical engineer and data communications expert with three decades of professional industry and research experience in areas such as video encoding and imaging technologies, digital signal processing (DSP), lossless data compression, and computer security. Areas of specialized technical expertise also include Amazon AWS and other cloud computing platforms.
Lithium Battery Ultracapacitor Expert Profile
Chemist and portable power expert with thirty years of industry experience in the fields of lithium batteries and ultracapacitor technologies including management of the team that first commercialized lithium-ion battery technology in North America. Has worked at the leading edge of battery and supercapacitor technology throughout his career, having led battery R&D as well as testing and application engineering organizations.
Fiber Optics and Electronics Expert Profile
MIT-educated electrical engineer, computer scientist, and physicist with over two decades of technology expertise in areas including data communications, network processors, TCP/IP protocols, fiber optic networks, and VoIP.
Analog & Digital Electronics Expert Profile
Electronics and computer science expert with more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience analyzing, designing, and implementing real-time systems for commercial, industrial, and military applications. Has been chief architect or technical lead on numerous projects covering all aspects of the architecture and development of electronics (including circuit boards and FPGAs), embedded software, network and communication protocols, and graphical user interfaces.
Fault Tolerant Computing Expert Profile
Electrical and computer engineering professor with decades of experience in computer architecture and design who has been recognized as one of the top innovators in the first half century of the history of computing. Has specialized technical expertise in bio-robotics, medical devices, actuators, mechatronics, fault tolerant computing, processor cache and memory design, high speed networks, storage subsystems, and system performance evaluation.
DSP and Data Compression Expert Profile
Consultant and professor of electrical and computer engineering who is a named inventor on about twenty issued U.S. patents on digital signal processing (DSP) and digital receiver technologies. Teaches university courses in DSP and communication systems and writes and speaks throughout the world on applications of DSP. Also consults in advanced DSP-based communications systems.
Distributed Computer Systems Expert Profile
Computer scientist with over forty years of industry experience in design of computer systems, communications systems, electronics, and software.
Penetration Testing Security Expert Profile
Global Positioning Systems Expert Profile
Electrical engineer with substantial design experience in the fields of GPS and navigation systems, digital signal processing, semiconductors, image processing, and software-defined radio for airborne and ground-based systems and devices in the military, agricultural, industrial, and other markets. Experience includes technical team and architectural leadership for multiple product launches.
Medical Device Software Safety Expert Profile
Consultant certified in regulatory requirements for medical with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field of medical device firmware and software design. Specialist in safety-critical product development who has developed software as well as technical and regulatory documentation for a range of medical products under all FDA levels of concern and IEC 62304 classes. Has participated in several software submissions and inspections before the FDA and EU notified bodies. Also an inventor of technologies in the field of electronic program guides for TV set-top boxes.
DOCSIS Cable Modem Expert Profile
TCP/IP Internet Protocols Expert Profile
Software and systems engineer with several decades of hands-on experience in the design and implementation of complex embedded systems based on Linux, Windows, and real-time operating systems. Specialist in Internetconnected products such as consumer electronics and IoT devices using WiFi 802.11, GSM/LTE cellular, and other wireless and wired protocols. Also has experience with FPGAs and implementing M2M communications through the use of Microsoft .NET-based web services.
Mechanical Electrical Software Expert Profile
Mechanical engineer with hands-on experience in all phases of product engineering, including system architecture, system engineering, system modeling, system integration, mechanical and electrical design, as well as software and firmware development and testing. Areas of deep technical specialization include electronics design and simulation, digital signal processing (DSP), and software development in a range of programming languages.
Short-Range Wireless Protocols Expert Profile
Professor emeritus of computer science at one university and an associate professor of the same at another. Also a software consultant and a leader with experience in every phase of software product development and management. Visionary, thinker, founder, writer, speaker and mentor experienced in startups, mid-size, and large companies. As an early member and technical leader of an international industry consortium, helped to establish and standardize line-of-sight communication protocols between handheld mobile devices.
Battery Chemistry Expert Profile
Technology consultant with more than thirty years of experience in battery, materials, and control system technology and strong capabilities in all aspects of battery systems and energy storage.
Settop On-Screen Guide & DVR Expert Profile
Ultrasound Medical Imaging Expert Profile
Former assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and Oxford-educated materials scientist whose areas of specialized technical expertise include design of semiconductors and other electronics and sensors and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) as well as signal and image processing. Industry experience includes working for and consulting with multinationals such as General Electric, Medtronic, Fujifilm, Samsung, and Siemens on projects relating to medical devices, consumer electronics, biometric security, clean-tech, and electrical power delivery.
E-commerce SaaS Software Expert Profile
Computer scientist and executive with experience managing development of a range of computer systems from e-commerce and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) websites to set-top boxes and electronics kits, including research prototypes through to commercial products and services. Experience from hands-on product development to management, marketing, and venture investment. Also worked as a researcher, software development manager, and technology executive at large companies as well as Silicon Valley startups.
Video Game Computer Graphics Expert Profile
System & Software Testing Expert Profile
Biometrics & Tamper Detection Expert Profile
Security consultant and professor who has developed novel and patented security technologies including for biometric and physical security.
GPS & Navigation Systems Expert Profile
Magnetic & Optical Storage Expert Profile
Electrical engineer with broad industry experience in development and manufacturing of electronic products.
Microprocessor Design Expert Profile
Medical Device Design Expert Profile
Engineer with over thirty-five years of experience designing electronics and software for consumer electronics products and safety-critical medical devices.
Audio Signal Processing Expert Profile
Over forty years of academic and engineering experience and twenty years of expert witness experience in computer science, software development, embedded systems, enterprise software, and especially signal processing for audio and music technology.
User Interface Design Expert Profile
Accomplished software and systems engineer with specialized expertise in user interface design and human factors issues for embedded, mobile, web, desktop, and server software.
Telecommunication Systems Expert Profile
Electrical engineer and consultant with a practice in telecommunications, information technology, media, electronics, and e-business.
Mobile & Wireless Networks Expert Profile
Professor of electrical engineering and an award-winning innovator in the areas of wireless communication systems and mobile networks who has testified as an expert witness.
Wireless Protocols Expert Profile
Computer networking and wireless technology expert with over thirty years of industry experience who has been significantly involved in multiple wireless standardization efforts.
Laser Printer Engines Expert Profile
Consultant and trainer with over thirty years of hands-on professional experience in the design and testing of software, firmware, and electronics.
Wired & Wireless Networks Expert Profile
Career consultant in the field of telecommunications and information services with extensive involvement in the design of major voice and data networks.
Embedded Software Design Expert Profile
Former adjunct professor of computer engineering with more than twenty-five years of experience in the software industry, including over a decade spent developing software for embedded systems.
Military Systems Design Expert Profile
Embedded systems industry veteran who built or managed the development of more than one hundred computer products.
Secure Computer Systems Expert Profile
Electrical engineer with extensive electronics and software product development experience across a broad range of industries and platform architectures.
Cellular Communications Expert Profile
Independent engineering consultant in the design of both electronics and software with a formal education in electrical and mechanical engineering.
Independent engineering consultant in the design of both electronics and software with a formal education in electrical and mechanical engineering.
Electrical engineer with extensive electronics and software product development experience across a broad range of industries and platform architectures.
Consultant and professor of electrical and computer engineering who is a named inventor on about
Engineer with over thirty-five years of experience designing electronics and software for consumer electronics products and safety-critical medical devices.
Former computer science professor who taught courses in operating system and compiler design and also designed datacom equipment for decades.
Research scientist and independent consultant with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and specialized expertise in signal, image, video, and content processing and data compression.
Computer scientist with over forty years of industry experience in design of computer systems, communications systems, electronics, and software.
FAA-certified Designated Engineering Representative (DER), flight instructor, and commercial pilot and former director of engineering and chief software architect for next generation cockpit flight displays.
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