Advanced Patent Reverse Engineering & Litigation-Ready Claim Charts

We don't just provide standard Evidence of Use. TAEUS delivers litigation-ready claim charts backed by advanced software, hardware, and semiconductor reverse engineering.

Litigation-Ready Evidence to Secure Your Market Advantage

In modern intellectual property litigation and assertive licensing, generic claims get thrown out of court. Many offshore firms provide basic, lightweight "Evidence of Use" (EoU) charts—which might be enough to justify a patent purchase, but will never hold up in a high-stakes courtroom dispute.

At TAEUS, we do much more than basic Evidence of Use. We deliver deeply technical, litigation-ready claim charts backed by objective, empirical data. Furthermore, we don't just hand you a report and walk away; we defend our findings by providing expert witness services directly from the engineers who performed the hands-on reverse engineering.

Our approach is strictly goal-oriented. We thoroughly dissect your target patent claims and industry standards to understand the technical minutiae before we begin testing, ensuring you get the most cost-effective, precise data required to win.

Specialized Reverse Engineering Across High-Tech Industries

With well over 100 combined years of high-technology expertise, our engineering teams are equipped to Take Apart Everything Under the Sun—delivering exact data from simple briefings to complex, color-coded claim charts.

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Hardware & PCB Teardowns

From printed circuit boards (PCBs) to consumer electronics and touchscreen displays, our hardware reverse engineering team maps component architecture and functionality directly back to your patent claims.

Software & Firmware Code Analysis

Uncover hidden software features buried in binary code. Standard discovery rarely uncovers deep software infringement. Our team specializes in complex code analysis, utilizing static/dynamic testing to move from compiled object code (the ones and zeros that make electronics work) back into readable source code to document infringement in proprietary algorithms and operating systems.

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Semiconductor & Integrated Circuit (IC) Analysis

Navigate the complexities of microelectronics. We provide advanced semiconductor reverse engineering, including chip package teardowns, layer-by-layer deprocessing, and circuit extraction to identify patent infringement at the nanometer level.

Case Study 1

The Microsoft European Antitrust Investigation

When the European Commission needed to verify if Microsoft's instructions for writing compatible code for the Windows OS actually worked, they hired TAEUS Europe Limited (our UK subsidiary) to conduct a massive antitrust investigation. Our team successfully reverse-engineered the entire Microsoft Windows operating system to test the compatibility instructions. We proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the instructions were faulty, resulting in the European Commission levying a historic fine of over 1 billion EUR against Microsoft.

Case Study 2

Overcoming NSA-Level Security (Lear vs. Chamberlain)

In a major dispute over wireless garage door opener technology, we were hired by Lear to prove that a competitor was infringing on their patents. The target technology had scrambled its code using extreme, NSA-level security to prevent access. TAEUS successfully overcame the security matrix, took the compiled object code, and analyzed it back into source code. This allowed us to map the code directly to the patents and definitively prove infringement—a feat nobody else in the industry could achieve.

Frequently Asked Questions About Patent Reverse Engineering

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