Dates: February 2007 - January 2008
Case No. BC332199 , Superior Court of the State of California, Los Angeles County - Central District.
Litigants: Cogent Systems, Inc. versus Northrop Grumman Corporation
Dr Kerschberg served as a tesifying expert for Cogent Systems, in litigation involving two large-scale systems that use both client-server as well as Internet-based service-oriented architectures with Web services. He wrote a report comparing and contrasting the two systems involved in the litigation: NAFIS and IDENT1. He also provided deposition testimony with regards to his report.
The case was recently settled out of court. Here is a link describing the details of the settlement:
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/online/1_1/31399-1.html