Microcomputers Expert Witnesses: 2

John Peck has over 25 years of experience as a Software and Hardware Engineer, with over 10 years of experience as a technical analyst for hardware and software Intellectual Property matters. Through his experience as an inventor, he has been granted 10 United States patents.  Background Experience: Mr. Peck's prior hardware engineering experience includes system architecture, digital design, design verification, design methodology automation, FPGAs, ASICs, and complex SoCs using in IoT applications such as smart power meters. He also has a solid background in software engineering, including video game development, firmware, EDA tools, and system validation environments.

Litigation Support: Mr. Peck has drafted numerous claim charts and prepared expert reports for software copyright, trade secret, and patent litigation. Representing attorneys for plaintiff and defendant, he is comfortable researching and expressing complex technical issues.

Ideal clients are attorneys who need to understand how complex systems operate on the basis of produced source code. Mr. Peck is able to rapidly understand complex technical systems, identify gaps in source code productions, and explain source code operation in a way that most people can understand. His work products are highly detailed in their description of system operation, source code references, and claim mapping.

To date, Mr. Peck has consulted on a total of 22 cases.

• Consultant and analyst for multiple ITC 337 investigations
• Software source code analysis for litigation including alleged copyright violation and trade secret theft
• Hardware HDL/RTL source code and schematic analysis for litigation matters including patent infringement
• Patent evidence of use
• Reverse engineering of software on mobile, desktop, and server platforms
• Performed software and hardware IP analysis and composed expert reports regarding patents, trade secrets, and copyright matters
• Ran CodeSuite® and analyzed software source code correlations
• Reviewed client portfolio patents to determine likelihood of infringing use based on publicly available information
• Developed source code comparison and analysis tools

Education: 

• MS, Computer Science,  University of California, Los Angeles
• BS, Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

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Dr. John Strawn, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1985)  has served as testifying expert in patent and trade secret cases, conducted extensive prior art searches, and written expert reports, working for both plaintiffs and defendants. He has conducted software analysis of thousands of pages of source code.  Dr. Strawn has over 30 years experience in software development (assembly language, Fortran, C, C++, Java, HTML, XML). He is experienced in digital signal processing, especially for audio and music, including audio compression such as MP-3. As an employee and as an independent consultant he has worked on teams in large and small companies on cutting-edge technology.  Having been a Fulbright scholar in Germany, he can easily work with source material in German. He is an accomplished public speaker and has published extensively. 

Testifying Experience: 19 depositions and 3 trials to date. includes Lucent v. Microsoft (San Diego, CA, February 2007).