SoftSource Consulting's Litigation Support services help you determine how, what, when and where accused software is used. Our well-rounded experts have diverse technical backgrounds and have worked the entire lifecycle of patent infringement as well as trade secret misappropriation cases.

SoftSource Consulting offers services to aid with your past, present and future litigation needs:

Discovery

• Collect and analyze source code and binaries.
• Perform forensic analysis on source code and binaries to determine which components and what source code contain accused functionality.
• Prepare and produce source code and binaries with associated reports.
• Assist with interrogatories for technical questions by determining relevance, formulating technical questions and checking technical validity of assertions.

Analysis

• Assist in understanding the technical issues involved in a case.
• Provide technical guidance to assist in the development of the case strategy.
• Develop and research issues for expert reports, check the validity of assertions, provide information to rebut opposition's expert reports.
• Assist in the deposition of technical experts: aid in formulating questions, provide onsite assistance, check transcript validity, assist with Daubert motions.
• Provide research in support of witness preparation.
• Assist in preparing declarations in support of motions.

Trial Support

• Provide fact witnesses.
• Develop and assist with computer demonstratives.
• Develop and assist with summary exhibits.

Damages

• Metrics on the extent to which accused code exists in accused products.
• Determine conditions required for accused code to be executed.
• Metrics on the proportion of API's that can cause accused code to be accessed.