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Field notes and essays from my expert witness and IP litigation consulting practice — patents, copyright, trade secrets, and the technical concepts underneath them. Migrated from an earlier WordPress site; dates reflect original publication.
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My previous post introduced the complexities of AI when we consider copyright law. Grasping the challenges posed by AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) will…
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The emergence of tools based on artificial intelligence, particularly in the realm of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, has…
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Social Media Fraud is a serious problem: according to the US Federal Trade Commission reported that losses due to social media scams was US$2.7 billion in 2021…
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I suspect that you may have seen a message like this at some point when logging into a website. To me, it is ironic that they typically then make you go…
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One of my recent projects asked me to look at the logic within a software package that took data from multiple sources, stored it in a database, and then…
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I recently was asked to look at specific findings of other forensic experts related to the "recovery of deleted flies." Another expert found specific behavior…
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Recently I expressed being unsure of what someone meant when they indicated a meeting time relative to “EST.” I explained that EST is not the same as EDT, and…
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What are the types of data we should be creating and collecting? (your research) — a field note from Tony Mason's expert witness practice.
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Four Questions around Blockchain — a field note from Tony Mason's expert witness practice.
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Automating Plagiarism Detection — a field note from Tony Mason's expert witness practice.
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masking errors can contain different classes of errors than on originally considered from looking at the masking error
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In my IP expert practice, much of my work is related to trade secrets. There are two common scenarios that I see routinely: (1) someone thinks what they know…
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Explain NPE in an Expert Witness and legal context — a field note from Tony Mason's expert witness practice.
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How patents are made and updated – and why people keep a patent ‘open.’ — a field note from Tony Mason's expert witness practice.
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DNS and IP address – how computers and the internet work — a field note from Tony Mason's expert witness practice.
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Do you have permission to show that video demo of documents being linked by the association? — a field note from Tony Mason's expert witness practice.
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What is the implication of data harvesting from website tracking? — a field note from Tony Mason's expert witness practice.
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I know we have talked about meta-data in the past (see previous discussion of meta-data here) concerning photographs (Meta-Data), but today I turn my attention…
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Last year I came across the use of this term and had to look it up. I ultimately understood the idea as soon as I read the description, but it made me think of…
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Recently, I wrote about how blockchains work. However, I did not really delve into what it is good for? Maybe the answer is (like war) absolutely nothing!
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I have been working in distributed systems for decades. The fundamental problem when we have multiple active sources of information is finding a way to achieve…
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Recently one of my clients contacted me and asked about what I know concerning "determining authorship." I pointed out that I have a published paper on the…
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As an inventor, one of the things I did not appreciate is how to maximize the value of a patent family. I suspect that one reason for this is that the attorney…
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Much of my work relates to meta-data. That is, "data about data." For example, the name, size, and creation date of a given file is a form of meta-data. One of…
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Generic framework for embedded software development
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