Patent Law

I was contacted recently by Bob Zeidman, President of SAFE Corporation. They offer a product called CodeSuite®, which detects software copyright infringement.  While this might seem a little off topic for a patent infringement blog, please hear me out.

According to Mr. Zeidman, "SAFE Corporation is a pioneer in providing software and services for discovering intellectual property theft, measuring software IP, and comparing software source code and object code. CodeSuite® has been used by law firms for IP litigation cases around the world. CodeSuite has also been used by tax attorneys to track changes through generations of programs for accurate IP valuations."

I have worked on a few patent infringement cases that involved software (as a Consulting Expert and as an Investigator).  In those that reached the discovery phase and its related access to source code, we needed to identify technical experts with experience with the specific programming languages involved.  They then needed to perform very detailed and time consuming analysis of the code and how it compared to the claims of the patents.  I have not worked with CodeSuite before, but perhaps it is worth a look on the next software case I am involved with.

"You can use CodeSuite for free on any code where the total of all files being examined is less than 1 megabyte. For larger jobs S.A.F.E. can run CodeSuite on your code at our secure facility. We can also run your jobs on our CodeGrid distributed computing platform. We will provide you with the detailed, raw CodeSuite output, and an in-depth expert report."

If you have used CodeSuite before, share your comments here with other readers.  Learn more about the product here.