Expert witness engagements for Arthur T. Brody
Dr. Brody is a sought after expert witness for intellectual property and contract matters with testifying experience. He has prepared opinions or supported preparation of opinions with respect to claim construction, infringement, validity, damages, materiality and willful infringement, has prepared responses to questions for Markman hearings, and helped prepare attorneys for Markman presentations. He has written declarations in support of and in opposition to motions for summary judgment. Dr. Brody has been deposed numerous times and has testified at trial.
Expert Witness Cases
- Verizon CA v. Katz (engaged on behalf of Katz) – No. 01-CV-09871 (C.D. Cal.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Fish & Neave, New York, NY
- January 2003 – July 2004 - Served as an expert witness involving telecommunications call center technology. Completed expert witness reports on asserted claim validity. Provided declarations in support of client’s summary judgment motions and response. Deposed twice. Disposition – Settled.
- Katz v. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (engaged on behalf of Katz) – No. 01-5627 (E.D. Penn.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Fish & Neave, New York, NY
- December 2002 - Served as an expert witness involving telecommunications call center technology. During discovery, identified infringing services.
- Disposition – Settled
- In re UAL Corp. (engaged on behalf of Katz) – No. 02-B-48191 (Bankr. N.D. Ill.)
- Type of Matter – Bankruptcy
- Law Firm – Fish & Neave, New York, NY
- May 2004 – July 2005 - Served as an expert witness involving telecommunications call center technology. Identifying infringing services and infringed claims.
- Disposition – Unknown.
- Katz v. PT-1 (engaged on behalf of Katz)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Fish & Neave, New York, NY
- May 2004 – July 2005 - Served as an expert witness involving telecommunications call center technology. Identifying infringing services and infringed claims.
- Disposition – Settled
- Sunrise Telecom v. Acterna (engaged on behalf of Acterna) – No. 05-CV-00174 (E.D. Tex.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – ReedSmith, New York, NY
- May 2005 – August 2005 - Serving as an expert witness on case involving digital subscriber line (DSL) test equipment. Developed client’s position with respect to non-infringement and invalidity
- Helped develop claim constructions. Provided declaration in support of client’s non-infringement and invalidity briefs for injunctive relief hearing.
- Disposition – Settled
- Inline Connection Corp. v. Verizon (engaged on behalf of Inline) – No. 05-CV- 00205 (E.D. Va.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – HellerEhrman, New York, NY
- May 2005 – Oct. 2005 - Served as a consulting witness involving digital subscriber line (DSL) network equipment.
- Katz v. Citibank, et al. (engaged on behalf of Katz) – No. 05-CV-00142 (E.D. Tex.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Cooley Godward Kronish, Reston, VA
- June 2005 – May 2008 - Serving as an expert witness involving telecommunications call center technology.
- Disposition – Settled
- 800 ADEPT, Inc. v. Murex Securities, Ltd., et al. (engaged on behalf of 800 ADEPT) – No. 02-CV-1354 (M.D. Fla.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement, suit and counter-suit
- Law Firm – Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A., Orlando, FL and Maher, Guiley and Maher, P.A., Orlando, FL
- Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2006 - Served as expert witness involving call routing technology designed to deliver a call to the most appropriate service provider location based on distance between the caller and service provider location or other defined criteria. Prepared expert witness and rebuttal reports with respect to the invalidity of Murex’s asserted patents, the validity of 800 ADEPT’s asserted claims and charges of inequitable conduct against the 800 ADEPT patents’ inventor. Wrote declarations in support of 800 ADEPT’s motion for summary judgment and in opposition to Murex’s motion for summary judgment. Helped prepare demonstrative exhibits for trial. Testified at deposition. Testified at trial both as a direct and rebuttal expert witness.
- Disposition – Jury verdict and final judgment in favor of 800 ADEPT. All Murex asserted claims found invalid, and all claims of two key patents found to be invalid including one patent that had passed reexam. No inequitable conduct was found. All 800 ADEPT asserted claims found to be valid. Murex also found to infringe all 800 ADEPT asserted claims.
- Katz v. AEP, et al. (engaged on behalf of Katz) - No. 07-ML-01816-B (C.D. Cal.)and No. 07-ML-1816-C (C.D. Cal.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Cooley Godward Kronish, Reston, VA
- January 2006 – Present - Serving as an expert witness involving telecommunications call center technology. Prepared report and declarations in opposition to Defendants' invalidity arguments with respect to invalidity of the claims asserted by Katz. Prepared report and declaration in opposition to Defendants' arguments of materiality of references purported to be undisclosed by Katz. Deposed for 30 hours on the above reports.
- Disposition – Ongoing
- Katz v. AIG Annuity Insurance Co., et al. (engaged on behalf of Katz) - No. 07-ML-01816-B (C.D. Cal.) and No. 07-ML-01816-C (C.D. Cal.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – HellerEhrman LLP, Menlo Park, VA and Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, CA
- November 2006 – Present - Serving as an expert witness involving telecommunications call center technology. Prepared report and declarations in opposition to Defendants' invalidity arguments with respect to invalidity of the claims asserted by Katz. Prepared report and declaration in opposition to Defendants' arguments of materiality of references purported to be undisclosed by Katz. Deposed for 15 hours on the above reports.
- Disposition – Ongoing
- Sunrise Telecom, Inc. v. VeEx, Inc. (engaged on behalf of VeEx, Inc.) – No. 1-07-CV-078643 (Cal. Super. Ct. – Santa Clara County)
- Type of Matter – Theft of Trade Secrets
- Law Firm – ReedSmith, San Francisco, CA
- February 2007 – September 2007 - Served as an expert witness on case involving portable Telecom test equipment. Identified materials in the public domain available to client that would let them design, develop, market and sell their products without theft of trade secrets. Prepared declaration in support of opposition to a preliminary injunction against the client.
- o Disposition – Settled
- 800 ADEPT, Inc. v. AT&T Wireless, et al. (engaged on behalf of 800 ADEPT) – No. 07-CV-00023 (E.D. Tex)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Maher, Guiley and Maher, P.A., Orlando, FL
- April 2007 – August 2008 - Served as expert witness on case involving call routing technology designed to deliver a call to the most appropriate service provider location based on distance between the caller and service provider location or other defined criteria such as user-defined geographic area. Deposed on claim construction issues. Have prepared declaration in support of Markman Reply Brief.
- Katz v. General Electric Capital Corp., et al (engaged on behalf of Katz) – No. 07-CV-02336 (C.D. Cal.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman LLP, Los Angeles, CA
- March 2008 – Present - Serving as an expert witness on case involving telecommunications call center technology.
- Disposition – Ongoing.
- Grape Technology vs. Jingle Networks, Inc. (engaged on behalf of Jingle) – No. 08-CV-00408 (D. Del.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Ropes & Gray, New York, NY
- August 2008 - Serving as a consulting witness on case involving directory assistance automation.
- Makor Issues and Rights, Ltd. v. Tellabs, Inc. (engaged on behalf of Makor Issues and Rights, Ltd.) – No. 02-CV-04356 (N.D. Ill.)
- Type of Matter – Securities Class Action
- Law Firm – Milberg LLP
- May 2009 – Present - Serving as an expert witness on case involving defendants’ alleged misrepresentations to the public.
- Disposition – Ongoing
- Neutral Tandem, Inc. v. Peerless Network, LLC (engaged on behalf Neutral Tandem, Inc.) – No. 08-CV-03402 (N.D. Ill.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Jenner & Block LLP
- June 2009 – Present - Serving as an expert witness on case involving specialized networks for call routing of transit traffic between carriers. Also assisting in response to inter partes reexamination.
- Disposition – Ongoing
- Sybase 365, LLC v. TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (engaged on behalf of TeleCommunications Systems, Inc.) – No. 2:09-CV-00493)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Goodwin Proctor LLP
- March 2010 - Served as an expert witness on case involving short messaging service (SMS) and E911 routing for mobile phones.
- Disposition – Settled
- Lochner Technologies, LLC v. Dell, Inc., et al (engaged on behalf of Lochner Technologies, LLC) – No. 2:09-CV-00177-CE)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Russ, August & Kabat
- June 2010 – Present - Serving as an expert witness on case involving remote computing and video display using wireless communications.
- Disposition – Settled
- AT&T Inc. v. TiVo Inc. (engaged on behalf of TiVo, Inc.) – Case No. 4:10-CV - 01059 (N.D. Cal.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Irell & Manella LLP
- September 2010 – March 2011 - Serving as an expert witness on case involving television program recording technology.
- Disposition – Stayed
- Motorola Mobility, Inc. v. Apple Inc. (engaged on behalf of Motorola Mobility, Inc.) – Investigation No. 337-TA-745 (ITC, Washington, DC.)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firm – Ropes & Gray
- March 2011 – Present – Serving as expert witness on case involving the use of GPS circuitry in determining the location of a mobile E911 caller.
- Disposition – Ongoing
- Fujitsu Limited v. Belkin International, Inc., et al. (engaged on behalf of BelkinInternational, Inc., et al.) – Case No. 10-CV-03972 (N.D. Cal. – San Jose)
- Type of Matter – Patent Infringement
- Law Firms – Reed Smith LLP, O’Melveny & Meyers LLP, Law offices of S. J. Christine Yang
- March 2011 – Present – Serving as expert witness on case involving the use of I/O cards inserted in externally accessible slots to provide both wired and wireless communication between devices.
- Disposition – Ongoing
