Litigation Support / Expert Testimony

Kenneth Pugh provides litigation support as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases in addition to his practice in software development and design reviews. With a background in both corporate and academic instruction, and a national conference speaker, he can explain matters in layman’s terms to lawyers, judges and juries.

Litigation Experience

• Software patent infringement
• Trade secret misappropriation
• Software copyright infringement
• Criminal cases involving the use of computers, including email, chat rooms, and image storage including internet child pornography
• Experience in both federal and state courts
• Buyer-vendor contract dispute resolution

Services

• Research, evaluations, reports, depositions, and trial testimony
• Evidence analysis
• Examination of source code, hard drives, and other technical issues

Experience

• Thirty years experience in computer software
• Five years experience in electrical engineering and digital logic design
• Served on ANSI X3J11 Committee (C Language Standard)

Publications

• Three books on programming
• One book on software design and the software development process
• One book on computer usage
• Magazine columnist on computer programming

Technical areas include

• Computer usage
• Networks including Internet and local area networks
• World-wide web
• Email including spam email
• Internet protocols as SMTP, FTP, Telnet
• Disk storage and file systems
• Security
• Requirements
• Software design, programming, and testing
• Real-time control systems

Education

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
• Masters in Electrical Engineering with major in Computers

Affiliations

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)

A detailed Curriculum Vitae is available. Please fill out our service request; email us at info at pughkilleen dot com; or call us at 919 490-6335