Legal action expert witnesses

A consultant can address many of the company s safety and health issues. He or she can also act as an expert witness during legal action, but primarily the consultant is hired to solve a problem. Thus, the consultant must be able to identify and define the existing problem and then provide appropriate solutions for that problem. Consultants usually have a wide array of resources and professional contacts that they can access in order to assist in solving the problem. 

Patent Office actions and the court battle that followed lasted three decades, and produced volumes of testimony and scientific research. Indeed, the legal proceedings contained what may be the most complete scientific record of the discovery of a crystalline material. Over 1000 exhibits had been submitted and over 100 witnesses deposed in 18,000 pages of testimony by 1970. During the course of the 85-day trial conducted between 19 September 1977 and 17 May 1978, the district court received, in addition to the voluminous record compiled in the Patent Office, listed above, considerable new evidence including several thousand exhibits and the testimony of a number of experts in the area of physical and polymer chemistry. 

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