Sterling Anthony, CPP

My expert witness experience includes packaging-related cases, falling under four categories: product liability/ personal injury; failure-to-warn; patent infringement; and, insurance claims for loss or damaged cargo.  My Product liability and personal injury cases have involved products ranging from consumer nondurables to heavy industrials, and injuries ranging from serious to fatalities.  The scenarios under which the injuries occurred have included home, workplace, retail, and public.  The crux of my opinions concerned: whether the packaging was defective; whether it resulted in an unreasonably dangerous product; whether the defects were causal to the injuries; and, whether, but for the defects, the injuries would not have happened.  My failure-to-warn cases, likewise, have covered a diversity of products and scenarios.  The crux of my opinions concerned: whether the product embodied a hazard; whether the hazard imposed a duty to warn; and, whether a given warning was adequate as to content and format.  My patent infringement and trade-dress infringement cases, too, were diversified.   An expert does not opine on the question of infringement nor on invalidity, because that task is the province of the jury.  The crux of my services involved: evaluation of the patents at issue; evaluation of prior art; inputs to the construction of claim charts; advice on the interpretation of claim terms for Markman hearings; and, writing reports, including rebuttals to the reports of the opposing expert.   My insurance claims cases, were diversified in terms of products, industries, and modes of transportation.  The crux of my opinions concerned: the causes of cargo loss or damage; industry practices and standards; and, practices and standards within a specified mode of transportation.