Areas of Expertise: Intellectual Property; Copyright; Trade Dress; Trademarks; Industrial Design; IP Infringement; Patents
Background and Qualifications
Over the past 40+ years, Mr. Mauro has been retained by leading law firms and corporations including Apple, Nike, Dyson, Qualcomm, and Microsoft, among others, as an expert on Ergonomics / Human Factors Engineering (CHFP), product design and development, industrial design, GUI design, usability engineering, usability testing, and consumer decision making.
In formulating his opinions Mr. Mauro frequently conducts professional research on key issues related to product design and functionality, thus providing an additional level of objectivity to his opinions uncommon for utility patent, design patent, and trade dress experts.
For the past 40+ years, Mr. Mauro has been the president of Mauro Usability Science, Inc. (“MUS”), a consulting firm in New York providing product development research and design solutions to leading U.S. and international corporations and government agencies. He has executed research and development programs for many large corporations including ATT, Apple Computer, Motorola, Hewlett Packard, General Motors, General Electric, and NASA, among others. He is named inventor on U.S. and foreign utility and design patents and currently has patents before the PTO on various product categories. He is a Certified Human Factors Engineering Professional (CHFP) and obtained such certification from the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE); certification number 1312.
Upon being nominated and appointed to the first Presidential Design Awards Committee by the Reagan Administration, Mr. Mauro selected projects that qualified for Presidential Design Awards in the category of product design and established the criteria by which designs were selected. He has been chairman of two American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards committees and has also served on numerous design awards committees, including the Industrial Design Magazine Annual Design Review.
He is a member of numerous professional societies including the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), and the Usability Professionals Association. He has spoken numerous times at USPTO Design Day and at legal conferences on the topic of design IP. Mr. Mauro has received numerous awards including the Alexander C. Williams Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), NASA, and the Association for Computing Machinery. He also received the Stanley Caplan Award for User-Centered Design and was a founding member of the HFES Special Interest Group on Consumer Products. He has been quoted in leading business publications including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Science, Scientific American, and other publications.
Additionally, Mr. Mauro has served as an expert for leading companies in over 75 major IP cases covering design patents, utility patents, trade dress, and copyright-related to GUI and product design. Furthermore, he co-wrote 2 amicus briefs on the value of design submitted to the Federal Circuit and The Supreme Court.
His experience covers both in-depth working knowledge of formal usability science and detailed GUI and product design for a broad range of software and hardware applications spanning commercial and consumer applications. Additionally, his professional background covers new product development and product design methodologies related to overall product development life-cycle optimization, feature and function definition, consumer testing, and human factors engineering. He also has a working knowledge of primary issues related to the economic modeling of new product features/functions and their implications for high-level market timing.
Specialized IP Litigation Consulting Services
Founded in 1975, MauroNewMedia is a leading provider of usability testing, product design, GUI design, UX optimization, and design IP litigation services. The firm offers a specialized set of intellectual property litigation consulting and expert witness services to help leading litigation teams navigate the increasingly complex IP litigation space. These services include:
- Pre-Complaint Rapid Infringement Assessment
- Consumer Research for the Ordinary Observer Test
- Prior Art Research and Analysis (Unconventional Sources)
- Design Patent Damages Research and Strategy
- Consumer Research for Copyright Infringement Analysis
- Specialized Trial Visual Aid Demonstration Development
- Psychophysical Trial Narrative Testing
- Design-Change Analysis to Reduce Possible Infringement
To read detailed descriptions of each of the services listed above, please visit this link.
Contact Charles L. Mauro directly at Cmauro@MauroNewMedia.Com.