Dr. Claire Sand consults, constructs and writes expert reports, and serves as expert in depositions and at trial

  • Claire has served as an expert witness in 18 cases since 2016, involving 8 patents, 4 food packaging and food spoilage cases, and 6 other cases.
  • Dr. Claire Sand is a Global Packaging Leader with over 35 years of food science and packaging experience.
  • She is the top expert in the field of food packaging and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award (Riester-Davis-Brody) in Food Packaging, as well as being awarded as an Institute of Food Technologists Fellow.
  • Claire has authored 136 publications including 1 books and 3 chapters, conducted 75 global presentations, and is a monthly Food Packaging columnist for Food Technology and Packaging Digest.
  • Dr. Sand is the owner and founder of Packaging Technology and Research, LLC,. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University and CalPoly and has previously worked at Total Quality Marketing, Nestle, General Mills, Kraft Heinz, Safeway, and academia, as well as in basic research, development market research, and marketing in Germany, Colombia, and Thailand.
  • Claire serves on 3 Editorial Boards and holds Board-level positions in SPRING, Pac Global, Phi Tau Sigma and the Institute of Food Technologists.
  • Dr. Sand received her doctorate in Food Science and Nutrition from the University of Minnesota, as well as master's and bachelor's degrees in packaging from Michigan State University.
Dr Claire Sand
Food Packaging Expert | Packaging Scientist, Consultant, Speaker, Author, Expert Witness

PTR Expert Witness Capabilities and Areas of Expertise

Capabilities

  • Consulting
  • Expert Reports
  • Depositions
  • Trial

Expertise

  • Food packaging damage
  • Packaged food loss of shelf life or deterioration
  • Intellectual Property
  • Packaging Design patents
  • Packaging Utility patents
Dr Claire Sand expert witness specialties include:
  • Patent Infringement and Invalidity - including patent infringement, patent invalidity, forensics related to patents and related lawsuits, design and utility patent infringement, food packaging patents, Patent or design infringement
  • Food Package and Packaging Forensics 
  • Trademark, trade dress or trade secret disputes
  • Food Package Interactions - including food damage and spoilage, food packaging safety, foods and how packaging interacts with food, Failure analysis of defective packaging
  • Food Package design - including flexible film, rigid packaging - bottles, cans jars, etc., semi-rigid packaging- foam trays, Food packaging product development, Integrity of packaged goods for warehousing
  • Material Science - including  Polymers,   Glass,   Metal,   Paperboard and ​  Composites
  • Food Packaging Containers- including Rigid bottles, Closures/caps, Trays, Cups, Jars, Flexible films - lidding, bags, etc. and Multilayer structure
  • Package Design​
  • Packaging innovations and science in active packaging, intelligent packaging, interactive packaging
  • Food safety related to packaging
  • Packaging machinery
  • Food and packaging interactions
  • Migration rates
  • ​​And more like - Determination of probable cause in food packaging contamination, Failure analysis of defective packaging, Food package research and development, Packaging materials technology, Protective packaging, Food package testing, Food packaging FDA regulations & GMPs, Food packaging machinery & line operations

Food Packaging Expert Witness

Dr. Claire Sand is an experienced food packaging expert witness for cases and attorneys working on food and beverage, packaging & labeling or patent & intellectual property litigation and lawsuits available to consult, construct and write expert reports, serve as expert in depositions and testify.​ ​
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35+ years of field experience with notable industry achievements, accolades and credentials
Legal experience proficiency includes 15+ Expert reports, 12+ depositions supporting numerous civil litigation and class action cases
Experience includes litigation topics of packaging design patents, packaging utility patents and trade dress intellectual property protection issues
Expertise in Packaging Science, Packaging Systems and Design, Packaging Engineering, Polymer Science, Materials Science, Food Packaging, and Product Design expert.
Expert in all areas of food packaging - including primary packaging, secondary packaging and tertiary packaging requirements in full range of food categories from including: ​
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