John M. Strawn, Ph.D.
Expert Witness and Litigation Support Experience
Summary: patent litigation, class action litigation, ITC actions, and USPTO declarations relating to software (in a wide variety of areas), audio, music, speech, processor architecture, compression, multimedia, digital cameras, telephony, cell phones, video games, and file downloading, among others. Testimony at trial, prior art analysis, infringement analysis, expert reports, deposition, tutorials, Markman hearings.
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Date: |
2010 - |
Orrick, Washington, DC |
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Case: |
Affinity Labs v. Alpine Electronics et al., 08-171-RC, Eastern District Texas. |
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Involves car audio, marine audio, and home theatre products that connect to iPod/iPhone. For defendant JVC Kenwood, rebuttal expert report on non-infringement. Deposition. |
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2009 - |
Wolf Haldenstein, New York |
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Case: |
In re Apple & ATTM Antitrust Litigation, Northern District of California, San Jose, C 07-5152. |
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Project: |
Analyze iPhone source code. Expert report on class certification. Deposition. |
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2008 - |
Paul Hastings, Palo Alto, CA |
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Case: |
Konami Digital Entertainment v. Harmonix Music Systems, Texas Eastern District 6:08-cv-00286. |
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Project: |
Analyze Rock Band video game source code (Playstation 2, PS3, Wii, XBox). Expert reports. Two-day deposition. |
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Date: |
2009 - 2010 |
Jones Day, Palo Alto, CA |
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Case: |
SanDisk v. LSI, California Northern District, 3:09-cv-02737. |
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Project: |
Attend tutorial and Markman hearing regarding MP3 patent litigation. |
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Date: |
2009 |
Weil Gotschal, Redwood Shores, CA |
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Case: |
In the Matter of Certain Digital Cameras, ITC 337-TA-671. |
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Project: |
Analyze Samsung cell phone source code relating to digital cameras. This involved baseband chips from Qualcomm, Philips, Agere, Texas Instruments; register-level code for camera image sensors from Samsung, Sony, Micron, Omnivision; Windows Mobile 5 and 6 digital camera device drivers; Qualcomm BREW 2 and BREW 3 cell phone operating systems; patents involving digital cameras, Bayer subsampling, and pixel interpolation; and standard digital optical concepts such as RGB, YUV, YCbCr, EXIF, and JPEG. |
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Date: |
2009 |
Finnegan, Henderson, Washington, DC |
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Case |
Voice Domain Technologies LLC v. Philips Electronics North America Inc et al., Western District of Oklahoma, 5:08-cv-00701. |
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Project: |
Declarations for Markman hearing on hand-held consumer devices. |
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Date: |
2009 |
THAT Corporation, represented by McDermott Will & Emery, Boston |
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Case |
US Patent Application 09/638,245, BTSC Encoder. |
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Project: |
Declaration to USPTO regarding non-obviousness for audio in television. |
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Date: |
2008 - 2009 |
Alston Bird, Atlanta |
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Case |
Move Inc. v. Real Estate Alliance Ltd et al, 2:07-cv-02185, Central District of California, Los Angeles. |
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Project: |
Expert report concerning real estate sales website. Source code analysis. |
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Date: |
2007 - 2008 |
Fish and Richardson, Atlanta |
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Case |
Nice Systems Inc. and Nice Systems Ltd. v. Witness Systems Inc. Civil Action No. 06-311-JJF, Delaware District. |
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Project: |
Expert reports concerning telephone call centers (telephony, software, hardware architecture, digital recording). Deposition, jury trial testimony. |
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Date: |
2005 - 2007 |
Fish and Richardson, San Diego |
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Case |
Lucent Technologies Inc. v. Gateway, Inc., et al., and Microsoft Corporation, Intervener. Case No. 02-CV-2060 B (CAB) consolidated with 03-CV-0699 B (CAB) and 03-CV-1108 B (CAB). |
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Project: |
Testifying expert for Microsoft (defendant) involving audio compression and MP3. Prepared 8 expert reports (total 331 pages) on non-infringement and invalidity including 20 claim charts and 15 other substantive attachments. Analyzed over 4000 pages of C/C++ source code; analysis of assembly and machine code. Worked directly with German documents. Deposed, November 3 2006. Two days testimony at three-week jury trial, February 7-8, 2007. Wikipedia entry on this case. |
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Status: |
Judge Brewster overturned jury decision and ruled in favor of defense. Judge Brewster's decision upheld on appeal, September 2008. |
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Date: |
2007 |
Morrison and Foerster, Los Angeles |
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Case |
3:06-cv-7736 CA Northern District, Seer Systems v. Yamaha. |
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Project: |
Prior art research for music synthesis. |
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Date: |
2006 - 2007 |
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw, Houston, TX |
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Case |
2:06-cv-156, Digital Technology Licensing (DTL) v. Cingular Wireless. |
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Project: |
Claim charts, technology background for microphone in cell phones. |
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Date: |
2007 |
Meyer and Associates Co. LPA, Columbus, Ohio |
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Case |
Health Science Products LLC and Kairos & Associates, In., v. Sage Software SB, Inc. |
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For class action litigation, analyze database software before and after release of ACT 2005. |
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Date: |
2005 - 2006 |
Black Lowe & Graham, Seattle |
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Case |
Digeo, Inc. v. Audible, Inc., Case No. C05-00464-JLR, Seattle |
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Project: |
Expert reports involving Internet file downloading. Analyze C/C++ source code. Deposed for Markman hearing. |
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Date: |
2006 |
Ropes and Gray, Palo Alto |
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Case |
MediaTek, ASUSTek & ASUS v. Sanyo |
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Project: |
Prepare claim charts on 24 hour notice. Assist in preparation of tutorial. |
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Date: |
2006 |
Wilmer Hale (New York) |
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Case |
Information Technology Innovation, LLC v. Motorola, Inc. et al., Northern District of Illinois 04-C-7121. |
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Project: |
Provide and supervise an expert witness colleague who prepared an expert report on infringement. |
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Date: |
2004 - 2005 |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York office |
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Case |
Antor Media Corporation v. Apple Computer, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, RealNetworks, Inc., Civil Action No. 2:03CV320 (E.D. Texas 2004) |
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Project: |
Prior art regarding file downloading. |
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Date: |
2005 |
Trop, Pruner & Hu, Austin, TX |
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Project: |
prior art involving signal processors. |
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Date: |
2003 |
Dechert |
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Case |
Opposed to Lucent; Decert's client not disclosed to me. |
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Project: |
Find prior art in six articles and two Ph.D. dissertations, all in German, on audio compression. |
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Date: |
1997 - 1998 |
Cesari and McKenna, Boston |
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Case |
Lucent (plaintiff) vs. Young Chang |
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Project: |
Prior art for music synthesis, digital hardware, software, architecture. |
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Date: |
1994 |
Law firm:Small, Larkin, Los Angeles |
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Case |
L.C. Concepts v. Digital Theatre Systems |
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Project: |
Prior art for cinema sound equipment in USA and Germany. |
For more information on Dr. Strawn's background, see his on-line resume. For more information on his litigation support work, contact (Dr.) John Strawn .
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