Data Storage Patent Expert

Zaydoon (Jay) Jawadi, expert witness

Jay Jawadi, info@zjawadi.com
Providing data storage patent expert witness services

Mr. Jawadi is an experienced data storage patent expert.

Throughout his 15 years’ data storage industry experience, Mr. Jawadi acquired extensive knowledge as well as design and implementation expertise in all layers of data storage technology from the architectural block diagram level down to the signal level, encompassing data storage systems and subsystems, data storage devices (hard disk drives, tape drives, removable media drives, optical drives, jukeboxes / libraries, and PC cards), disk arrays / RAID, software, device drivers, firmware, hardware, interfaces (such as SCSI, ATA, SATA, SSA, Fibre Channel, and PC Card / PCMCIA), storage controllers, host adapters, and chips. Mr. Jawadi founded and ran a data storage company whose products were used by all major data storage companies, and Mr. Jawadi personally consulted for and designed systems used by leading data storage companies, including suppliers of hard disk drives, tape drives, removable media drives, optical drives, libraries/jukeboxes, drive arrays, RAID, storage subsystems, host adapters, controllers, chips, PC cards, and computer systems worldwide. With his subsequent data networking background, Mr. Jawadi also has deep understanding of how data storage systems are networked.

Mr. Jawadi also taught SCSI and data storage interfaces to thousands of engineers worldwide, covering all software, hardware, and system aspects. His SCSI the Nuts and Bolts three-day course, which he passionately designed and taught for many years, was widely popular.

As data storage patent expert witness, Mr. Jawadi’s litigation experience spans multiple data storage cases and tens of patents. He also inspected and created claim charts for dozens of products, involving millions of lines of source code.

Overview
Patent Expert Witness Litigation Expertise
Additional Expert Witness Litigation Expertise
Data Storage Expertise

Overview

  • 15 years’ data storage experience
  • Taught data storage topics to thousands of engineers from top technology companies worldwide
  • Over 40 years’ experience in software development, engineering, consulting, and management
  • Over 18 years’ technology expert witness litigation experience with over 90 cases
  • Over 20 patent infringement cases
  • Over 40 IPRs/CBMs/PGRs
  • Over 10 copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation cases
  • Multiple contract dispute / fraud cases
  • Inspected tens of millions of lines of source code and tens of very large websites and mobile apps
  • Wrote tens of reports and declarations
  • Generated over 100 claim charts
  • Testified at depositions, trial, and arbitration
  • MS, Computer Science, Columbia University
  • California Community Colleges lifelong instructor credential in computer science
  • Seasoned technical instructor
  • Excellent communication, writing, and public presentation skills

Patent Expert Witness Litigation Expertise

  • Patent Infringement
  • Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs)
  • Covered Business Method (CBM) Reviews
  • Post Grant Reviews (PGRs)
  • Expert Reports, Declarations, and Claim Charts
  • Depositions / Testifying
  • Software Comparisons
  • Software Inspections
  • Source Code Comparisons
  • Source Code Inspections
  • Prior Art Searches
  • Patent Validity
  • Patent Invalidity
  • Anticipation, Obviousness, and Section 101 / Alice
  • Indefiniteness, Means-Plus-Function
  • Enablement
  • Markman Construction

Additional Expert Witness Litigation Expertise

  • Copyright Infringement
  • Trade Secret Misappropriation
  • Contract Disputes
  • Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison (AFC)
  • Structure, Sequence, and Organization (SSO)
  • Public Art Searches

Data Storage Expertise

  • ATA
  • ATAPI
  • CD-ROM Drives
  • Data Storage Analyzers
  • Data Storage Device Drivers
  • Data Storage Device Firmware
  • Data Storage Device Manufacturing
  • Data Storage Device Quality Assurance
  • Data Storage Device Software
  • Data Storage Device Testing
  • Data Storage Devices
  • Data Storage Interfaces
  • Data Storage Software
  • Data Storage Systems
  • Data Storage Testing
  • Disk Arrays
  • Disk Drive Device Drivers
  • Disk Drive Firmware
  • Disk Drive Interfaces
  • Disk Drive Manufacturing
  • Disk Drive Quality Assurance
  • Disk Drive Software
  • Disk Drive Testing
  • Disk Drives
  • EIDE
  • External Drives
  • Fibre Channel
  • I/O Devices
  • I/O Interfaces
  • I/O Subsystems
  • IDE
  • iSCSI
  • LTO (Linear Tape-Open) / LTFS
  • Optical Drives
  • Optical Jukeboxes / Libraries
  • PATA
  • PC Card
  • PCMCIA
  • RAID
  • Removable Media Drives
  • SAS / Serial Attached SCSI
  • SATA
  • SCSI
  • SSA
  • Storage Systems
  • Tape Drives
  • Tape Jukeboxes / Libraries