Baer ©onsulting

Custom software solutions and concise software analysis for copyright, trade secret, and patent matters

Software Development

From inception to research, coding, documentation, and testing, Baer Consulting provides a range of software development services

Expert Software Analysis

Source Code Comparison

Examining software source code using precise tools, such as CodeSuite®, to compare software at multiple levels of granularity

Functional Analysis

Rapidly identify, analyze, and ascertain correlations in the most complex software

Patent Charting

Efficiently understand, analyze, and chart software infringement, prior art, or examples of use

Software Evaluation

Baer Consulting provides a range of software evaluation services that can provide an independent evaluation and recommendations for an existing application

Function Goals

Working with clients to determine the functional goals of the application and then evaluate if they are met

Appropriate Technology

Determine the design, architecture, and technologies utilized and if they are appropriate for the application

Development History

Break out and analyse the development history to determine efficiency or problem areas

Quality

Evaluate the quality, complexity, and maintainability of the source code

Nikolaus Baer

Nikolaus Baer is a software engineer with over ten years of experience analyzing and testifying in software intellectual property matters

Nikolaus has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he attended on a Regents Scholarship. He has developed software for source code comparison, medical devices, mobile terrain database applications, web applications, mobile applications, and network emulation applications.

Nikolaus has advised or offered opinions on over 40 software intellectual property (IP) matters, including instances of patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and software plagiarism, where his detailed and focused analyses have been critical factors. He has also advised on numerous pre-litigation investigations, patent prosecutions, and evidence of use analyses. These projects have included examining software source code and binary code, reverse engineering software, and testing the functionality of software on a variety of desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms. The testing of software functionality has included recording and analyzing the network traffic generated by various websites, desktop applications, and mobile applications.

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Baer Consulting, Inc.

Mountain View, California, U.S.A.

650-933-5292