Barr Group's smartphone and mobile apps experts review patent portfolios and advise attorneys in litigation. Our software engineers have hands-on experience designing iOS and Android apps for mobile handheld devices and the know-how to reverse engineer systems and analyze source code. Many are trial-tested expert witnesses.
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Mobile Devices and Applications
Barr Group's expert witnesses have specialized expertise in source code review for smartphone devices and mobile apps, including:
- Smartphones, cell phones, tablets, and smart watches
- Google Android mobile operating system and SDK
- Apple iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS as well as XCode
- Microsoft Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, and Windows IoT
- Google Play, Apple iTunes/AppStore, and Windows Phone Store
- Blackberry OS, Qualcomm BREW, PalmOS/webOS, and ARM platforms
- Nintendo, PlayStation, XBox, and video games for mobile computers
- Cellular network protocols (SMS, MMS, CDMA, GSM, LTE)
- WiFi 802.11, NFC, and Bluetooth (including Bluetooth LE)
- IrDA and other infrared and line-of-sight communications
- GPS, accelerometer, pedometer, camera, and microphone peripherals
- Internet of Things (IoT) devices and cloud hosted apps
- Web-based apps built with HTML, JavaScript, JSON, etc.
- Qualcomm's hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
Barr Group's software experts are familiar with all of the major smartphone APIs as well as related wireless protocols and also with the programming languages used to develop iOS and Android apps, including C/C++, .NET, C#, Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, and Go.
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Expert Witness Services
Barr Group's smartphone 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
- Preparation of patent infringement claim charts
- Software source code review and analysis
- Source code comparisons for copyright and trade secret theft
- Prior art review for patent invalidity
- Automated testing of mobile devices and wireless communications
- Evaluation of cyber breaches and privacy invasions
- 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:
Mobile Devices & Apps Expert Witness List
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Electrical engineer with two decades of experience in the design of embedded systems with a particular emphasis on the internals of Linux and its filesystems.
