Other Expert Witness
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Mobile and Cellular Messaging Systems and Services
Our work in
mobile and cellular messaging began in 1992. This work has included expert
witness engagements, consulting projects,
patent analysis projects, research
reports, and seminars. As a result, we have developed an in-depth knowledge and
expertise in nearly every facet of messaging. This includes:
- Messaging Systems,
Architecture, Technologies and Protocols/Standards
- SMS: Short Message Service
including text messaging
- Voice Mail
System
- MMS: Multimedia Messaging
Service
- IMS: IP Multimedia Core
Network Subsystem
- IM: Instant Messaging and
MIM: Mobile Instant Messaging
- Email
- Converged IP
Messaging
- Message
store-and-forward
- Message and subsystem
gateways and converters
- Message servers and
clients
- Messaging device functions and
components
- Standard mobile phones to
smartphones
- Operating Systems/OS
(Android, Blackberry OS, iOS, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile), IP Multimedia
Services Identity Module (ISIM), SIM cards, USIM cards, UICC smart card,
activation, registration, authorization, Graphical User Interfaces (GUI), text
input, Web browsers, filters and access control
- European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI), Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), Third
Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
standards
- Messaging Services
- SMS/Text
messaging
- Voice mail
- Instant
messaging
- Picture
messaging
- Video messaging
- Video Sharing
- Multimedia
Telephony
- Email
- Video mail
- Converged IP Messaging
- Speech navigation,
text-to-speech, and speech-to-text
- Messaging Market Forecasts and
Analysis (subscribers, sales and shipments)
- Competitive analysis
(carriers/operators, manufacturers, developers, distributors,
resellers)
- Messaging Billing and Charging
Systems including usage information (Charging/Call Data Records - CDR), usage
collection, rating, charging, call event, accounting and billing
Previous
messaging expert witness engagements have addressed:
- Product, system, standards,
network and technology analysis (from a technical, functional, &
market/industry and competitive perspective)
- Messaging patent analysis &
research
- Patent claims, validity,
invalidity, infringement, and non-infringement analysis:
- Technical review and
analysis of patent claims, preparation of claims charts and validity and
infringement opinions
- Patentability
Evaluations
- Freedom-to-Operate
Examinations/Clearance Examinations
- Litigation Threat
Assessments
- Portfolio Analysis
- Examination of quality, defects,
repair and warranty issues
- Messaging product &
technology licensing and agreements
- Joint development
agreements
- Product development
agreements
- Confidentiality of trade
secrets, customer lists, business plans, new & proprietary products and
services
- Business management, practices
& operations
- Contracts
- Sales, marketing and
distribution agreements
- Dealer and distributor
relationships and agreements
- Royalty calculations &
payments
- Supplier
agreements
- Purchase orders and purchase
agreements
Our Expert Witness and Litigation
Support services include:
- Expert testimony, reports and
depositions
- Testifying with exhibits and
preparation of the attorney's material, questions and cross
examination
- Reviewing opposing expert
reports, testimony and depositions
- Assisting in the review,
interpretation and understanding of relevant evidence, information and its
accuracy
- Industry, business and
technology tutoring and counseling for attorneys and courts
- Preparation of questions in
technical matters for depositions
- Determining the facts of a
matter and suggesting case strategy
- Evaluation of pretrial
discovery
- Discovery investigation and
consulting for interrogatories, depositions and trial
- Articulating the underlying
technologies, systems, processes, methods and their accuracies and
limitations
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