KTG LITIGATION EXPERT SERVICES PRACTICE

Kelly Technology Group provides legal technical expert consulting services in the areas of computer systems, hardware, software, networking and databases. KTG experts have analyzed computer systems, hardware, and software incorporating millions of lines of source code to determine whether patents or copyrights were infringed, whether trade secrets were misappropriated, or whether development contracts were satisfied. KTG principals have considerable experience in analyzing and presenting sophisticated technical aspects of computer systems in plain English understandable to the Court. KTG experts have testified on behalf of numerous corporations including American Airlines, CA, Cisco Systems, Heidelberg, Hewlett Packard, Hughes Aircraft, Mentor Graphics, Microsoft, Samsung, Sanyo, and Sony, among others. KTG experts have also been engaged as neutral court experts, including as Computer Science Expert to the Court in the Ford/Firestone MDL.

Computer Systems

KTG has wide-ranging experience that spans the gamut of computer systems — embedded microcontrollers, microcomputers, minicomputers, workstations, mainframes, and supercomputers. Of course, this expertise includes the PC (DOS, all versions of Windows, Linux), Macintosh (68xxx, Power PC, and Intel machines and all versions of system software) and Sun workstations (both old and new models; and all versions of SunOS and Solaris). KTG staff all have diverse experience in areas including embedded systems, switches, routers, network attached storage, high speed printers, digital video recorders, and slot machines, to name a few.

KTG has a fully operable hardware laboratory for testing and developing embedded computers, wireless technology, networks, and hardware architecture.

Computer Components

KTG experts have experience with all components of a computer system. KTG experts have performed in-depth analyses of communications between components of a computer system as well as between computers on a network. This includes analysis of ISA, PCI, and LPC buses. KTG experts have analyzed the contents of individual network packets and performed packet-level network protocol analyses of both wired and wireless networks. KTG has also designed and conducted tests to determine reliability and failure modes of hardware components.

Computer Software

KTG's experts have performed static as well as dynamic analysis of computer software from a variety of industries. Depending on the needs of the problem at hand, KTG experts have studied the build process, the high level software architecture, calling trees, data structures and algorithms, to provide just a few examples. KTG experts have analyzed source code in arguably all significant programming languages including (Visual) Basic, C, C++, C#, COBOL, FORTRAN, HTML, Java, Javascript, Pascal, Perl, SQL, and many varieties of assembly languages.

In addition to source code analysis, KTG experts have decompiled and analyzed executable programs. KTG experts also specialize in analyzing programs while they are executing.

KTG Litigation Services

KTG offers comprehensive services for intellectual property litigation matters. KTG experts have deep and extensive experience in:

  • Copyright Infringement Investigation (abstraction-filtration-comparison test, de minimis change evaluation, application of doctrine of scenes a faire)
  • Patent Infringement Investigation (claims construction, anticipation and obviousness arguments, analysis of literal infringement and under the doctrine of equivalents, means-plus-function analysis etc.)
  • Trade Secrets Misappropriation Investigation (evaluating trade secret technology, comparison of original and allegedly misappropriated technology, etc.)
  • Contracts Compliance Testing and Analysis

KTG experts author highly professional, well-researched, and articulate expert reports, supported by comprehensive, objective analysis of the technology at issue. KTG experts are highly qualified, experienced, and well prepared to testify in deposition and at trial.