Howard J. Cohen, PhD
— Cohen Software Consulting, Inc.
Areas of Expertise: Software
Cohen Software Consulting, Inc. offers expert witness and expert consulting services in the areas of software intellectual property, including patents, trade secrets, copyright, DMCA, and business practices. With over 30 years experience in applications software architecture and implementation in a wide variety of areas, and over 20 years as an expert, we have the breadth and depth to provide well researched, reasoned and articulated opinions on the technical issues being litigated.
Education includes a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Brandeis University, graduate work in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Statistics from Stanford University, and continuing education classes from the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz.
Our emphasis and experience is in algorithms, relational database, and graphical user interface code across application areas including
- bioinformatics (genomics/proteomics)
- electronic design automation (chip layout and verification)
- digital cartography
- foreign exchange trading systems for central banks
- oil company asset management and trading systems
- DARPA funded research in optical networking Grid supporting systems and algorithms
- DARPA/Navy funded research in ocean acoustic signal processing
- optimum ship routing
- numerical ocean wave modeling and simulations
- reverse engineering and emulating file systems and database systems on foreign operating systems
- creation of an automatic test suite for system validation
- and many others
As an expert I have testified at Arbitration hearings and at trial in Federal Court. I have been engaged in cases involving
- patent infringement
- trade secret misappropriation
- copyright violation
- DMCA violation
- contractual dispute
- software plagiarism
- personal injury (issue was individual's ability to port software system, for damages)
- criminal (issue was alleged system break in and vandalism)
- divorce (issue was pre and post marriage software development)
- source code analysis (important in many of these matters)
I am a clear and fluent communicator at the level appropriate to my audience, whether technical peers, attorneys and judges, or lay juries.
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http://www.cohensw.com/EW_res.html