Proven track record in technology litigation

Trade secret misappropriation claim involving source code for software used with Cummins' coin-counting machines. Arkeyo had posted the compiled software on a public website with no access restrictions, no encryption, no password protection, and no terms of use.

I analyzed the posted files and demonstrated at an evidentiary hearing that the compiled code could be decompiled back into human-readable source code using free and inexpensive tools.

Based in a large part on my analysis, Judge Brody denied the motion for preliminary injunction, writing that Arkeyo had committed "the cyber equivalent of leaving its software on a park bench." The decision has since been cited in a district court opinion, Uhlig v. PropLogix, as well as in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Chicago-Kent Law Review, and Jenner & Block's Understanding and Litigating Trade Secrets.

Retained to produce an expert report in support of Amazon's motion for summary judgment. Conducted a detailed, line-by-line source code analysis of Amazon.com's autocomplete functionality for product search — a large and complex codebase — and delivered a comprehensive report in under one month. The motion for summary judgment was granted.

Plaintiffs submitted an eleventh-hour round of expert disclosures introducing a new infringement theory and claiming an additional $20M+ in damages. Assigned to respond to the technical opinions underlying the damages theory, I discovered a fatal flaw in plaintiffs analysis buried deep within an assembly-level code trace. My responsive report resulted in plaintiffs withdrawing the new set of allegations in its entirety.