Early case assessment
Pre-suit and pre-answer technical investigation. Whether the accused product actually does the thing, whether the code supports the story, and what the technical facts will look like once the other side has them too.
Statement of the firm
Crimson Digital, LLC is a technical consultancy retained by counsel in matters that turn on how computer software, a computer system, or an electronic device actually works.
We work principally as non-testifying consulting experts. Our analysis is performed under Rule 26(b)(4)(D) and the work-product doctrine: we are not disclosed, our drafts and communications are not exhibits, and what we find belongs to you and stays with you.
You can ask us what the code really shows before you are committed to a theory, and hear the answer you need rather than the one you can defend.
Our principals hold advanced degrees in computer science and electrical engineering and have spent twenty-five years building the kinds of systems now at issue in litigation — embedded firmware, microsecond-latency distributed storage, production computer-vision pipelines.
We accept retention from plaintiffs and defendants alike. Testifying engagements are considered case by case.
Services
What we do for counsel
Work performed behind the privilege, before and alongside whatever gets disclosed.
Theory development and stress-testing
We argue the other side's case against yours and tell you where it holds. Better to lose that argument in a conference room than in a report.
Source code review protocols and ESI scope
What to demand in production, what a proposed inspection protocol will and will not let you see, and what to do with a code review room once you are in it. The mechanics of getting the right materials are half the outcome.
Prior art and claim reading
Searching and characterizing prior art, and assessing whether a claim reads on the accused product, before anyone commits to an infringement or invalidity position.
Opposing expert analysis
Reading the other side's report for what it assumes, omits, overstates, or cannot support. Technical deposition outlines and cross-examination preparation for counsel to run.
Support of your testifying expert
Depth behind the disclosed witness: verifying analysis, running the work that does not need to be disclosed, and preparing demonstratives that teach.
Claim construction support
Technical background for Markman briefing and tutorials, and how a proposed construction plays out against the real implementation.
Beyond litigation
Technical diligence in acquisitions, internal investigations, insurance matters, and arbitration.
Competence
Technical domains
Where our competence actually lies. Where a matter needs expertise adjacent to ours, we will say so and, if it helps, associate an expert who has it.
- Source code analysis and version-control archaeology
- Patent infringement and invalidity
- Trade secret identification, tracing, and independent derivation
- Distributed systems, storage, and networking protocols
- Embedded systems, firmware, and binary reverse engineering
- Circuit and PCB design, FPGA and GPGPU implementations, hardware teardown
- Computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and geospatial data
- Machine learning: training, data provenance, and model capability claims
- Digital forensics, log and telemetry reconstruction, spoliation
Process
How an engagement runs
Most matters follow the same arc. Some stop early — that is often the point.
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Conflicts and scope
A short call, a conflicts check against parties and counsel, and an honest read on whether the technology is within our competence. If it is not, we will say so and try to point you somewhere better.
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Retention through counsel
Engaged by the firm rather than the client, so the work sits under the privilege from the first document we open.
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Analysis
Reading the code, the schematics, the commit history, and the documents. Finding the technical facts before they surprise you.
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Findings to counsel
Delivered the way you need them: a memorandum, a working session, an annotated exhibit set, or a phone call that saves you the memorandum.
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Support through the matter
Deposition and cross preparation, opposing report analysis, and depth behind your testifying expert — through trial, without ever appearing on a disclosure.
Background
Qualifications
Credentials and experience held by the firm’s principals. We have the credentials, and we have the expertise to back them up.
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, New York University — Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Doctoral work on fast, CPU-efficient distributed systems over ultra-low-latency, RDMA-capable networks.
- M.E., Electrical Engineering, The Cooper Union. Thesis on real-time computer vision for wearable augmented reality.
- B.E., Electrical Engineering, The Cooper Union.
Built, not just studied
- Co-founded and led a geospatial AI company building systems that digitize the built environment into 3D data — production computer vision, at scale, under deadline.
- Geospatial systems and data leadership at a media technology company.
- Twenty-five years of shipped embedded firmware, from 8-bit assembly to modern RTOS platforms.
- Founder of an engineering and software community, 46,000 members strong, operating continuously since 2000.
Teaching and writing
- Adjunct professor of computer science and postdoctoral research fellow, New York University.
- Peer-reviewed research in distributed storage and systems, including the Cell and Pilaf projects.
- Author of several books on programming, assembly language, and embedded platforms.
- Curricula vitae and rates on request.
Next step
Retain us or run a conflicts check
Send the parties, the accused technology, and the posture of the case. We will come back with a conflicts answer and availability, usually the same day. Retention is through counsel; rates and curricula vitae on request.
- expert@crimsondigital.llc
- Office
- New York, NY
- Retention
- Through counsel · Plaintiff and defense