Research by Hayes+Associates, Inc., a Corvallis, Ore., consulting firm, and testimony by H+A President Wilson C. “Toby” Hayes, Ph.D., helped convince a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, that three patents owned by Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) DePuy Synthes unit, a maker of artificial spinal-repair products, were infringed by intervertebral-implant products sold by Globus Medical Inc. (GMED).

stimony by Wilson C. “Toby” Hayes and forensic analysis by Jeremy J. Bauer of Hayes+Associates, Inc., an expert witness and consulting firm in Corvallis, OR, helped a jury in a Los Angeles Criminal Courts courtroom find Cameron Brown guilty of first-degree murder for throwing his daughter from a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff nearly 15 years ago. The jury’s decision came at the end of the third trial in this matter.

By reconstructing a shooting incidentinvolving a deputy and the man he fatally shot as the latter attempted to flee a rural Oregon residence by car, a team from Hayes + Associates, Inc., established that the deputy’s action, the firing of four pistol shots at the vehicle, was justified, given that the deputy feared for his life.

Testimony from Wilson C. Hayes, Ph.D., president of Hayes + Associates, Inc., played an important role in a federal jury’s decision to award $6 million to a railroad worker from Ellensburg, WA, after US District Court Judge Thomas Leighton found his employer, the Columbia Basin Railroad Co., liable for the severe head injuries the worker sustained while at work after dark in a Sunnyside rail yard.

In a decision handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on January 16, 2013, an $85 million jury verdict over patent infringement against Arthrex, Inc., overturned in June 2011 by a lower court in Oregon, was reinstated in favor of Smith & Nephew, Inc.

Research conducted by a team at Hayes + Associates, Inc. , a Corvallis, OR, consulting firm specializing in injury biomechanics, was instrumental in the return of a guilty verdict by a Washington state jury in the October 2012 trial of a 29-year-old woman accused of killing her boyfriend’s three-year-old daughter.