Brooks Hilliard has been involved as a consulting and testifying witness in more than ten matters relating to patents and/or the ownership and/or alleged misappropriation of intellectual property. These matters have involved computer software, computer hardware and confidential business knowledge/information.  Examples include:

	Testified for plaintiff in a software patent matter rebutting defendant's anticipation and obviousness assertions relating to eight alleged prior art systems (SCM software).
	Produced a report analyzing "look and feel" and databases structure similarities to determine whether one business software system was derived from a competing system written in a different programming language.  A court-ordered neutral assignment engaged by and reporting jointly to all parties to the dispute (settled, no testimony required).
	Testified for plaintiff in a trade secret matter relating to whether a hardware manufacturer had created a product itself, or copied the design disclosed to it by an inventor under an agreement prohibiting such copying.
	Analyzed issues in a trade secret matter relating to whether allegedly proprietary information used by an equipment maintenance company to train technicians was publicly-available (settled prior to testimony).
	Analyzed issues in a copyright matter relating to whether one company had misappropriated the Internet web site code of another (settled prior to testimony).

These engagements have involved the complete range of patent, copyright and trade secret issues. Project efforts have included forensic investigation, production of opinion letters, deposition testimony, trial and arbitration testimony and assistance in settlement negotiations.