USA
Intellectual Property
General
November 2023
Vol.16, No. 65, Autumn 2023
Bob Zeidman
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Bob Zeidman created the field of software forensics and founded Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corporation to develop and sell software forensics tools. He is the founder of Zeidman Consulting, an engineering consulting company that has worked on over 260 major litigations involving billions of dollars of disputed intellectual property. His cases have included ConnectU v. Facebook, on which the Oscar-winning movie The Social Network is based, and Oracle v. Google that went up to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the inventor of the famous Silicon Valley Napkin on display at the Computer History Museum. He is also a high-stakes poker player, and his latest tech venture is Good Beat Poker, a new way to play and watch poker online.
Bob wrote The Software Detective’s Handbook, the seminal textbook on software forensics. He has written articles and books on technology and business, award-winning novels and screenplays, and regular articles for various national magazines. His latest book is Election Hacks, the true story of how he challenged his own beliefs about voting machine hacking in the 2020 presidential election and made international news.
Bob has a master's degree from Stanford University and two bachelor's degrees from Cornell University.
Zeidman Consulting
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Zeidman Consulting provides hardware and software consulting and expert witnesses for all kinds of intellectual property litigation. Its consultants have years of experience reverse engineering hardware and software, analyzing and interpreting patents and trade secrets, comparing software to detect copyright infringement, and testifying at depositions and trials.
USA
Intellectual Property
General
November 2023
Vol.16, No. 65, Autumn 2023