Expert Consultant and Expert Witness Services
Dr. Sacerdoti
is a highly effective expert witness and consultant supporting software
litigation. He has served as a consultant and expert witness in seven cases --
four patent disputes and three disputes regarding contractual issues concerning
complex software products and professional services. His activities on these
cases included patent claim analysis, prior art research, technical
analysis of commercial software systems, assessment of performance under
warranties, and assessment of performance to professional standards. He has
been deposed for over 50 hours, testified at hearings, prepared expert reports,
prepared expert declarations, and provided advice and analysis.
The patent cases addressed these technologies:
- Automated configuration of complex products
- Expert system development tools
- Expert systems and automated process control
- Application servers and Web Services
Dr. Sacerdoti is an internationally known expert in Artificial Intelligence, and has had a variety of roles in the software industry for 35 years. He can speak with technical authority about many advanced software technologies, and about many aspects of the commercial software business. He is the principal inventor of U.S.Patent 6,188,403 covering an interactive data graphics generator, and the inventor of U.S.Patent 6,222,540 covering an expert system for automatically generating data graphics from the data. He is a co-inventor of U.S.Patent 6,954,728, which covers consumer-selected advertising, and of two other pending patents. He is the author of a book and over 20 papers and articles on a wide range of advanced software topics. He has lectured at the graduate level at many schools, including Stanford, University of Edinburgh, UC Berkeley, MIT, and Carnegie-Mellon. He has given invited presentations at numerous national and international conferences on such topics as expert systems, database management, problem solving, technology transfer, robotics, and the utility of AI technologies. He has presented tutorials at national and international conferences on technical, managerial, and architectural issues concerning AI software. He is effective at reducing complex concepts and technical distinctions to simple terms.
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