Barr Group's experts in embedded systems advise attorneys in class action and IP litigation. Our experts have hands-on experience designing products with electronics and firmware, including connected devices such as personal fitness monitors, WiFi security cameras, and smart home devices and have testified successfully in high-profile jury trials.
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Internet-Connected Smart Products
Barr Group is in the business of designing reliable and secure computers and we have software engineers with hands-on experience designing a wide variety of mass-market Internet-connected products that network via 802.11 WiFi, RFID, NFC, Bluetooth (including BLE), Zigbee, cellular, and M2M. For example:
- Smart TVs and smart speakers from Google, Amazon, and Apple
- Set-top boxes for cable and satellite television
- Wearable computers such as fitness trackers and heart-rate monitors
- Smart home thermostats, doorbells, sensors, and LED light bulbs
- Network LAN/WAN routers, hubs, and switches
- Edge computing devices and routers for cloud computing
- Embedded systems and embedded software ("firmware")
Barr Group's engineers are familiar with all of the major technologies used to design connected devices including the Google Cloud IoT, Amazon AWS IoT Core, and Microsoft Azure IoT frameworks, Linux and real-time (RTOS) operating systems, and also the programming languages that are used, such as assembly, C, and C++. And we are equally comfortable reviewing electronic circuits and schematic drawings.
Expert Witness Services
Barr Group's connected device 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 and firmware 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 reviewers 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:
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A leader in the field of connected vehicle technologies with three decades of focus on accessing...
Electronics and computer science expert with more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience...
Computer scientist and inventor with decades of hands-on experience applying emerging...
Professor of electrical and computer engineering and robotics with more than a decade of...
Professor of electrical and computer engineering with decades of experience at the forefront of...
Distinguished electrical engineer, technology executive and broadband industry pioneer and...
Independent engineering consultant in the design of both electronics and software with a formal...
Electrical engineer with extensive electronics and software product development experience...
Consultant and former computer science instructor who has written more than two dozen books and...
Physicist with over three decades of industry experience and a prolific innovator in electro-...
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