Legal cases involving product design require specialized expertise in engineering, consumer safety, usability, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance. A fully-vetted product design expert witness provides critical insights, detailed evaluations, and courtroom-defensible testimony to strengthen your case and achieve resolution.
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A product design expert specializes in the development, testing, and evaluation of consumer and industrial products. These professionals assist in cases involving design defects, product liability, intellectual property disputes, and regulatory non-compliance by offering reliable testimony and technical expertise.
Areas of expertise include:
These experts are essential in clarifying product safety, liability, and intellectual property issues, determining fault, and supporting legal strategies in product design-related disputes.
A product design expert provides the forensic, engineering, and regulatory expertise necessary to address disputes effectively. Here’s how they contribute:
Investigating Design Defects and Safety Risks
Experts analyze design flaws, ergonomic failures, and hazardous product features.
Assessing Compliance with Industry and Regulatory Standards
They evaluate whether a product meets safety regulations and design best practices.
Reviewing Intellectual Property and Patent Infringement Claims
Experts assess whether a product violates existing design patents or trade dress protections.
Providing Evidence-Based Reports
Experts deliver detailed, objective reports that clarify product design-related issues and support claims or defenses.
Delivering Persuasive Testimony
With clear and compelling findings, experts present complex product design concepts in an accessible manner for judges and juries.
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Ph.D., P.E. - Licensed Mechanical Engineer. Experienced in accident investigations and reconstruction, as well as, human factors and biomechanics. Machine design, consumer products, fire cause and origin. Licensed pilot with IFR rating; can provide aerial photography. Licensed commercial driver with tanker, hazardous materials, and passenger endorsements.
I have over 25 years experience in the design, development, and technical analysis of electronics and communications equipment. I have experience in cases involving patent infringement; complex trademark infringement; patent damages & royalty calculations; cell phone cases involving wrongfully accused, E-911 issues, call routing, and cell tower records; telecommunications cases involving failures and failure analysis, the local switch, toll call, and VoIP, IVR, and ATIS call centers; internet service providers; and broadband systems including ISDN, DSL, ADSL, and Ethernet. I have additional experience with all aspects of the telephone network and how it operates, the cable requirements needed to provide adequate internet service, testing cables used for high speed internet including CAT5 and high performance cables, and electrical engineering. My additional areas of expertise include electronics, power supplies, system failure analysis, reliability, safety, fault tolerant design methodology, development concepts and technical analysis of electronics, failure mode analysis, and Underwriters (UL) recognition of products for use in North America. I have 10 years expert witness experience with consultations, deposition, and courtroom testimony.
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I have more than 30 years experience in the fields of Product Design and Failure Analysis with expertise in the manufacture of the subject part. I have experience with analyzing the physical stresses that arise in a product under various loading conditions, and in determining if the design is sufficient to survive such loads, and investigating product failures and accidents analysis from a fundamental engineering perspective, often applying finite element analysis. I have provided consulting experience in the energy, construction, industrial, thermal fatigue, medical, transportation, crane failures, marine, commercial, utility and residential industries. I have over 15 years expert witness experience with consultations, deposition, and courtroom testimony.
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I have more than 25 years experience in the field of Clinical Pedorthics. My experience involves podiatric / orthopaedic orthotic work and inserts; podiatric manufacturing techniques and medicine; product development and biomechanics of footwear / footcare products; and diabetic shoes, dispensement, and fitting.
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