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Workplace / Product / Sports Injuries, Product Liability and Patent Infringement
Representative Cases
Patent Infringment
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Patent infringement cases for and/or against the following companies in the area of product design including various types of athletic footware, treadmills, elliptical trainers and exercise equipment: Nike, ASICS, Precor, Life Fitness, Soliflex, Avia, Teva and Osaga.
Workplace / Product / Sports Injuries
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Evaluation of a snow blower accident. Issues were related to both design and warnings.
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Evaluation of the hazards associated with the handle design of a towable ski tube.
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Determination of contributing factors in several nail gun accidents. Issues assessed included the adequacy of the design relative to human performance capabilities, expected use patterns and use and effect of warnings.
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Evaluation of an auger accident and determine how the accident occurred and possible contributing factors.
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Evaluation of the design and design modification of a large paper mill roller relative to personnel safety. Determine why and how employee got caught in roller.
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Determination of contributing factors to a fall from a scaffold. Issues assessed included the adequacy of the scaffold design based upon human factors and biomechanical criteria, expectations of potential users and warnings and their use and effect.
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Evaluation of the adequacy of the design of a machine relative to safety when cleaning and operating. The evaluation included site and product examination coupled with an analysis of human perceptions and expectations.
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Evaluate the efficacy of the design of safety stops on an exercise machine relative to functional human anatomy of the potential user.
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Product evaluation and design effects on a performance injury. Woman playing softball severely injured her ankle while sliding. The analysis evaluated the likelihood that the specific injuries were caused by the shoe design even when the slide was properly executed.
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