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. For disputes centered on the hardware itself, our electronics expert witnesses cover circuit, IC, and FPGA design.
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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:
Consumer Electronics Expert Witness List
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
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)…
Professor of electrical and microelectronic engineering with over thirty years of combined academic, industrial and consulting experience in the fields of…
Engineer with over thirty-five years of experience designing electronics and software for consumer electronics products and safety-critical medical devices. Has…
Former assistant professor of computer science who taught graduate courses in operating system and compiler design and later spent decades working in the design…
Research scientist and independent consultant with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and specialized expertise in signal, image, video, and content processing…
Technology and business consultant with more than three decades of experience in the development and implementation of new digital media…
Computer scientist with over forty years of industry experience in design of computer systems, communications systems, electronics, and software.
Electrical engineer and independent software consultant specializing in the architecture, design, implementation, and testing of software for safety critical…
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…
Founder and president of an independent regulatory-compliance testing laboratory with over thirty years of experience in the testing and evaluation of electronic…