Stuart Okorofsky has served as a consultant and Expert Witness for prominent intellectual property, patent, copyright and trade secret infringement litigation cases for major corporations and organizations, including patents for Financial Markets and non-financially related cases.
Services Offered:
1. Available for consulting, deposition and testimony
2. Review and comparison of source code, analysis of functionality, uniqueness
Highlights:
1. (Current) Company Confidential: Trade Secret Expert
- Patent infringement case regarding software used to operate industrial machinery
2. (2005) Xerox Corporation: Source Code Comparison Expert
- Source code comparison for international Arbitration case
3. (2004) Reuters: Expert Witness in patent infringement lawsuit against Bloomberg (Legal counsel: Skadden, Arps)
- Reviewed Bloomberg Source Code (written in Fortran and C) to determine existence of infringement on one or more of three patents held by Reuters
- Patents were for Distributed Matching System for Displaying a Book of Credit Filtered Bids and Offers
- Case was settled in March 2006 before the trial began
4. (2002) New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX): Expert Witness for patent infringement suit between sSpeed, Inc. and Electronic Trading Systems Corp. (Legal counsel: Akin, Gump)
- Reviewed C++ source code of ACCESS 2000 Electronic Futures Exchange program
- Prepared expert report of findings
- Deposed by legal counsel for plaintiffs
5. (2001) Deutsche Bank: Trading Program Litigation Consultant
Reviewed trading model created in Fortran code
- Determined functionality and uniqueness of code in order for legal team to examine trade secret violation litigation possibilities
6. (2001) PDA Software Litigation: Source Code Comparison Expert for Rich Belgard, leading copyright/patent expert
- Reviewed and analyzed source code (written in C) for hundreds of individual routines for operating system of leading handheld computer company
- Compared to code and functionality of operating system for leading competitor |