Augmented / Virtual Reality Expert Witnesses: 2

Garry E. Kitchen is a respected Video Game Expert Witness, with 40 years of experience in the industry, as a developer, game designer, publisher, and business executive. An early pioneer in the art, he has been recognized with numerous accolades and awards, including a WEBBY award, Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, Video Game Designer of the Year, Software Publishers Association (SPA) Excellence in Software, Video Game of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award(s) and many others.

Mr. Kitchen's products have generated more than $300M (USD) in retail sales. His noted achievements include Donkey Kong (Atari), Keystone Kapers (Video of the Year nominee), Bart vs the Space Mutants (the first Simpsons home video game), and Garry Kitchen's GameMaker (the first integrated development environment (IDE) for video games). As Vice President of Game Publishing for Viacom/Nickelodeon Television, Kitchen executive produced the Addicting Games Mobile app for iOS, Viacom's first mobile game to reach #1 in the competitive Apple App Store (2012). 

Litigation Support - Mr. Kitchen has successfully performed as a technical expert for industry-leading companies, including Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Apple, Ubisoft, Wargaming, Disney, LEGO, Hasbro, Zynga, FanDuel, and SuperCell. The majority of his clients have worked with him on multiple engagements, a testament to their satisfaction with his performance. He has been deposed dozens of times and has significant experience testifying at trials and arbitration hearings.

Mr. Kitchen has worked on a number of significant interactive entertainment cases, including numerous early patent infringement cases involving the Magnavox/Ralph Baer/William Rusch patent portfolio (the first issued U.S. video game patents), Atari Corp. v. Nintendo antitrust case (1989), and Escobedo v. THQ, the first copyright infringement case involving the use of a protected tattoo image on an in-game character in a video game, and many more. Expert Case List (Partial) 

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Testimonials - Mr. Kitchen takes great pride in going above and beyond for his clients. Here are recent verbatim comments from Mr. Kitchen's clients:

"The pleasure was all ours!! You have been great. I hope to work with you again soon."

"Your report left us speechless and we couldn't be happier."

"Thank you. Your speed and work on this was amazing."

"I very much enjoy working with you and watching you eat up opposing counsel during depositions."

"I don’t know if you heard, but the arbitrator found in favor of [client] on all 8 causes of action asserted by [opposition], awarded no damages, and will award [client] attorney’s fees and costs against [opposition]... Thank you for all of your work on this.  I learned so much and really enjoyed working with you."

Dr. Jonyer is an expert in networking, telecommunications, smart TVs, smartphones, machine learning, computer software, Internet, cloud, and web technologies.

Areas of Expertise
• Networking and Telecommunications: Mobile Wireless, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G, routers, TCP/IP, content delivery, CDN, edge caching.
• Smart TV and Smartphones: Google TV, Chromecast, Roku, Android TV, YouTube TV, Apple TV, mobile apps, web apps.
• Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence: Data mining, neural networks, deep learning, social network analysis.
• Software Analysis: Cloud, mobile, smartphone, web, Internet, applications.

Expert Witness Experience
Praised for his communications skills, Dr. Jonyer is effective in deposition testimony, report writing, and attorney briefings. Dr. Jonyer has opined on cases involving patent infringement, IPR, trade secret misappropriation, and breach of contract. He has extensive expert witness experience in cases involving Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, Intel, Cloudflare, Nokia, eBay, Salesforce, Slack, Dell, Roku, and others. 

Background
Dr. Jonyer has a rare combination of academic, corporate, startup, and venture capital experience. 
• Assistant Professor of Computer Science: Taught 9 courses. Research in machine learning.
• Google: Launched Google TV (later Chromecast) devices with OEMs and SoC vendors such as Sony, Samsung, LG.
• Nortel Networks: Designed 3G mobile communication systems.
• Adaptelligence: COO of health technology machine learning startup.
• Sidespin Ventures: Managing director of venture capital syndicate.
• NexStar Partners: Principal at early-stage venture capital fund.

Education 
• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2003.
• MBA, Carnegie Mellon University. 2010.