Over the years as an expert witness I’ve worked with a lot of lawyers. Most are really sharp, some are brilliant, and a few… not so much. Here are some guidelines for treating an expert right.

My book on software intellectual property has just been published by Prentice-Hall.

Peter Huber at the Manhattan Institute argues in the Wall Street Journal that software patents discourage innovation and must be disallowed or restricted. Dr. Huber’s facts are wrong and his conclusion is wrong.

Sometimes a full-course meal is more than you need, have time for, or are willing to pay for. Sometimes fast food just hits the spot. That’s why we’re introducing CodeSuite-LT, a lower priced version of CodeSuite with most of the functionality at much lower cost.

There’s a new business model to make money off of copyrights. Should you be concerned? New technology allows this business model to prosper. Can it also help you protect yourself? Read more about it here.

Learn about the multiprocessing version of CodeSuite.

The Report Generator (“RPG”) is a new program from SAFE that automatically generates draft expert reports and declarations for litigation.

SAFE announces the release of CodeSuite 4.0 that includes CodeCLOC for measuring how software evolves across versions of code. CodeCLOC uses the same algorithms that were implemented in CodeMeasure and that were developed for the landmark software transfer pricing case Symantec v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Over the years I’ve run into expert witnesses and attorneys who have told me about software copyright infringement cases where the only clues that copying occurred were patterns of spaces and tabs (“whitespace”). We set out to rigorously test this method.

Jimmy Winkelmann, a freshman biomedical engineering student at the University of Missouri, decided to create his very own line of sportswear and called his company The South Butt (motto: Never Stop Relaxing). The North Face, a San Leandro, California-based outdoor products company, was not amused.