Robert John Anders is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society with more than 40 years of professional experience. Mr. Anders has been retained as an Industrial Design Expert for over 17 years.

During his academic career as a tenured Professor at Pratt Institute, he lectured internationally and had written and taught Universal Design and the ADA.

Mr. Anders' Areas of Expertise Include:

• Industrial Design - Consumer Product, Furniture, Packaging and Retail Design
• Human Factors
• ADA and Design Management
• Intellectual Property - utility and design patents, trademarks, trade dress and copyright infringement

Analytic Focus specializes in financial, economic, demographic, and statistical research. We're Ph.D.s with decades of experience working in academia, industry, and Federal agencies. We provide exceptional value in interpretation of data, insight regarding business problems, and scholarship on best practices.

We estimate numbers needed for the best representation of your client. We evaluate flaws in analyses underpinning your arguments or your opponents. We've testified in Federal & State courts.

Complex Litigation
Antitrust, Deceptive Sales Practices, Securities & Lost Sales

Banking & Finance
Misrepresentation & Fraud, Securitizations, Regulation

Insurance & Reinsurance
Breach of Contract, Risk & Pricing Issues

Environmental/Mass Tort
Validity of Claims, Damages & Volume of Claims Forecasting

Class Actions and Class Certification
Commonality, Predominance, Mass Valuation

Fair Housing, Fair Lending, Labor & Employment
Discrimination & Disparate Impact

Intellectual Property
Trade Mark, Trade Dress, Patent Infringement
Confusion, Dilution, Lost Profits, Diverted Sales

Apparel: Mr. Sarabia can provide expert testimony and analysis about Contracts, Manufacturing (local, abroad), Import, Export, Sales, Distribution, Similarity of Apparel Lines and Protection of Designs.

Licensing: More than 25 years of experience in consumer licensing: international and domestic licensing including revenue projections, monitoring of licensees, standards of the industry, performance and breaches. He was an expert in licensing for the Vatican, Converse and Jones Apparel.

Trademarks: registration, secondary meaning, infringement, dilution, searches, investigations, due diligence, trade dress and counterfeiting.

Copyrights: originality and substantial similarity of copyrights.

Design patents: defenses based on lack on originality, identify and analyze obviousness and prior art

Standards of Practice of Apparel Business Lawyers, Intellectual Property Lawyers and Licensing Lawyers: Based on his 25 years of in depth experience as a lawyer in the apparel business and with intellectual property and licensing law, Mr. Sarabia can provide expert opinions as to the standard of care of lawyers

• Intellectual property claims, including allegations of patent, copyright, trademark and trade dress infringement, that require analyses of consumer opinions, behavior, and potential confusion
  
  
• Fraud and misrepresentation allegations, such as false advertising, that require analyses of potential customer confusion
  
  
• Class certification issues involving analysis of whether claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of those of the putative class
  
  
• Alleged anti-competitive behavior and antitrust violations, which require a definition of the relevant market based on consumer use and alternative products

Rob Wallace runs one of the nation's top Brand Identity / Package Design Resources providing global branding expertise to Fortune 500 companies in virtually all CPG categories. Wallace Church Inc. clients include P&G, Nestle, Unilever, Kraft, Colgate, The Home Depot, Brown-Foreman, Novartis, J&J, and more than 30 market leading companies. He has unique expertise in Trademark, Trade Dress, Brand Identity and Package Design Infringement. Manhattan-based, Rob has been an expert witness for important litigation involving:

Dr. Larry Chiagouris has provided expert testimony and written opinions on damages, marketing, advertising, intellectual property issues (including the use of survey research) for plaintiffs and defendants at federal/state court levels and arbitration venues for national/local law firms to include Davis Wright Tremaine; Nixon Peabody; Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley; Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease; and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He contributed opinions to cases involving Coors Brewing, Sprint, Avis and other important companies.

Selected by Agency Magazine as one of 10 best and brightest researchers. He brings extensive experience as a Senior Marketing, Branding and Research Executive responsible for directing major assignments for companies such as AT&T, Campbell Soup, Kraft, Miller Brewing, Peugeot, Pfizer, Prudential and Visa.

He has a Ph.D. in Marketing, is Past Chairman, Advertising Research Foundation and Former Director of the American Marketing Association.

Brooks Hilliard, CMC, CCP is the only actively practicing expert witness in the world who is both a Certified Management Consultant and a Certified Computing Professional specializing in computer system selection and problem resolution. He has testified more than 30 times as a computer expert witness and has been engaged on more than 90 such matters for both plaintiffs and defendants.

Mr. Hillard has done expert witness and consulting assignments in 25 states, and has qualified as an expert witness on computer software and hardware (including ERP, SCM and CRM systems) in both state and federal litigation. His expert witness engagements have included courtroom and deposition testimony in lawsuits, arbitrations, mediations and formal governmental hearings.

Areas of Expertise:

Ray Horak is an Independent Consultant with a General Practice in Wireline and Wireless Telecommunications and Related Fields such as the Internet and Voice over IP. His 35+ years’ experience includes management and executive positions with Southwestern Bell, CONTEL, and Executone prior to forming The Context Corporation.

Ray has authored the best-selling Communications Systems & Networks, (John Wiley & Sons, 1997, 2000, and 2002), Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook (Wiley-Interscience, 2008), and Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary (Webster’s New World, 2007). He was Senior Contributing Editor for Newton’s Telecom Dictionary (12th through 21st Editions). He has written hundreds of technical white papers, case studies, articles, and columns for major print and electronic publications such as CommWeb, Computer Telephony, Network World, The Prepaid Press, and Teleconnect. He also has served as Technical Editor for several book-length works, including Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks with Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Press, 2003). He currently is the Technology Editor for Telecom Reseller Magazine.

Ray regularly teaches public and private seminars and has spoken before tens of thousands of telecom and IT professionals in the US and abroad as a conference keynoter, seminar and tutorial leader, panel chair, and panelist at major industry conferences such as ComNet and Networld+Interop.

He also has provided litigation support as a consulting expert and testifying expert in a number of cases involving product / service misrepresentation and intellectual property (patent; copyright, and trademark / service mark infringement). Those cases have involved a broad range of technologies, including DSL, E911, fax, PBX, push-to-talk (PTT), Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), videoconferencing, VoIP, and voice processing.

Ray Horak is known for his ability—both in print and in person—to translate highly complex technical subject matter into plain-English, commonsense, and thoroughly understandable terms for technical and lay audiences, alike.

Electronic Evidence Retrieval provides computer forensic and e-discovery services nationwide.

EER President Dr. Johnette Hassell, a recognized expert in computer forensics, has more than 25 years experience in litigation support & e-discovery. She provides seminars for attorneys and clients on computer forensics and the 2006 federal rules on e discovery, consultation to businesses evaluating their preparedness for, and compliance with, the 2006 rules, and to attorneys preparing for scheduling conferences under the new e-discovery rules.

EER assists in all stages of case building, including:

• Determining if a suspect computer is likely to yield useful data

• Drafting appropriate language for/assisting in preparing and responding to, interrogatories and subpoenas

• Recovering and analyzing data that is accessible only through forensic techniques

• Assisting in determinations of “reasonable accessibility” of Electronically Stored Information

• Preparing court reports

• Presenting expert testimony

Stuart Okorofsky has over fifteen years of programming experience in Designing, Coding, and Back-Testing Indicators and Trading Models for the Stock, Mutual Fund, and Futures Markets. He specializes in EasyLanguage®, TradeStation Technologies® Open Platform and DLLs (in C++).

Mr. Okorofsky has over eight years of experience as an Expert Witness for Intellectual Property Litigation, including Intellectual Property, Patent, Copyright and Trade Secret Infringement Litigation Cases for major corporations and organizations, including the following (please see website for a complete list):

Profile: More than 40 years experience in the Fashion / Garment / Textile Industry, as a retailer, manufacturer, consultant, and college instructor. She is a perceptive and articulate expert witness who has been involved in more than 50 apparel industry legal disputes. She has been deposed and testified for both defendants and plaintiffs. She has owned her own clothing manufacturing company and has held key executive positions in major public and private companies in So. California.

Ms. Goldaper has been a management consultant to over 180 new, failing or growing apparel companies, and completed assignments for USAID in Romania, Egypt, El Salvador, Moscow, Thailand and Bulgaria. She is a 25-year member of the faculty at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

Areas of Expertise Include:

Dr. Gerald M. Goldhaber, the President of Goldhaber Research Associates, LLC, is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of Political Polling and Warning Label Research. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, as well as educational and governmental organizations. He has conducted hundreds of surveys, including political polls for candidates running for U.S Congress, Senate, and President. Dr. Goldhaber also served as a consultant to President Reagan's Private Sector Survey for Cost Control.

Dr. Goldhaber has written and edited 10 books and is a frequent international lecturer on the topic of communication. He writes numerous articles on a variety of issues for publication in journals and newspapers across the country, and has served as a political analyst for numerous radio and television shows. He has been selected as a member of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.

Legal Research

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY VALUATION

Hampton IP & Economic Consultants, an investigative accounting firm, is a leader in the field of economic valuation, financial impact analyses and litigation services. Our professionals are highly experienced in all phases of economic valuation and commercial litigation.

Forensic & Investigative Services

J. Richard Claywell is a Certified Valuation Analyst. Since 1985 he has built a reputation for integrity and for providing key solutions for clients in the legal and business communities and private individuals. Mr. Claywell provides Economic Damage Calculations for Lost Profits, Lost Income and Breach of Contract. He also conducts Business Valuations (appraisals) of closely held companies, as well as Profit Enhancement Analysis and Fraud Deterrence and Detection.

Services Include:

Kessler International was founded in 1988 by Michael G. Kessler, an internationally respected Investigative Consultant who has assisted in thousands of successful investigations for corporations and government agencies worldwide. Kessler International is a privately owned, licensed and certified firm with offices throughout the world and a network of established affiliates on every continent.

For over 20 years, Kessler International has been the leader in International and Domestic Corporate Investigations, Forensic Accounting, Computer Forensics and Intellectual Property Protection. Kessler International offers a full range of Forensic Accounting and Investigative Consulting services to protect companies against the dangers of Fraud, Counterfeiting, Product Diversion, Trademark and Copyright Infringement, Money Laundering and the recent explosion in Computer Crime.

Portfolio of Services Includes:

Dr. Thomas Maronick has provided both plaintiff and defense litigators with marketing and consumer expertise for over ten years. Prior to that he was the in-house marketing expert at the FTC. Since leaving the FTC in 1997, Dr. Maronick has been qualified as an expert in numerous federal and state courts, providing expert reports, affidavits, and testimony on marketing, advertising, and consumer behavior matters. Dr. Maronick has designed and implemented over 300 consumer surveys for litigation and/or policy related strategies, using virtually every survey research methodology, including mall-intercept studies, telephone and mail surveys, and studies using the internet and consumer mail panels.

Dr. Maronick has testified (deposition/trial) over 20 times in the past five years and is the author of research of the use of surveys in litigation.

Areas of Expertise:

John Glenn is the President & Managing Director of The Mentor Group, Inc.(TMG). TMG has valuation experts with extensive experience in the Accounting, Tax, and Financial Aspects of Business Valuations, Commercial Real Estate Appraisals, and valuing minority interests in entities and held directly in real estate. TMG has assisted clients in nearly Every Type of Entity (FLP, LLC, C or S Corps), and Business Valuation, Intellectual Property Valuations and Commercial Real Estate Appraisals, including fairness opinions, solvency letters, restricted stock, SFAS 141 allocation of purchase price, SFAS 142 Goodwill Impairment, SFAS 157, 123 (r) Stock Options, IRC 409 (a), ESOP, recapitalizations, litigation support, cost segragation studies, M&E, goodwill, and others.



Services Include:

• Business Enterprise Valuations
• Intangible Asset Valuations
• Commercial Real estate Appraisals
• M&E Appraisals
• Cost Segregation
• Expert Testimony / Litigation

SDR-Consulting provides a variety of legal services to help firms address marketing law. William Neal, Senior Partner and Founder of SDR Consulting, has been qualified in the federal courts as an expert in Lanham Act cases dealing with false advertising and trademark infringement and in cases dealing with marketing and survey research.

Legal Services Provided:

Silicon Valley based consulting organization specializing in litigation support services for intellectual property litigation matters both in state, federal and international proceedings.

Our group consists of senior scientists, engineers, and managers as well as academic experts in the in the fields of: Electronics, Semiconductors, Computer Hardware and Software, Telecommunications, Office Automation, Communications, Medical Electronics, Biotechnology, Materials, Manufacturing Processes, Industry Custom and Practice, Marketing.

Expert witnesses, technical consulting, tutorials, discovery assistance, trial aids, market studies, patent portfolio strategy, damage determinations, investment banking and venture capital due diligence, witness location, prior art search and evaluation for both domestic and international al matters.

Expertise in Intellectual property. Electronics, Semiconductors, Computer Hardware, Software, Telecommunications, Office Automation, Communications, Materials, Manufacturing Processes, Industry Custom and Practice.