Our intellectual property experts ensure that HKA valuations are clear, credible and stand up to scrutiny in jurisdictions worldwide and international arbitrations
For many modern businesses, intellectual property (IP) is the most valuable of all their assets. Protecting your interests in patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets is critical to your competitive advantage and success.
Our intellectual property experts offer specialised dispute services across the spectrum of IP practice. These services range from valuing intangible assets, quantifying damages, including lost profits and reasonable royalties, preparing accounts of the infringer’s profits; assisting with technology transfers and providing expert witness testimony.
Wide experience in intellectual property disputes
Our intellectual property and patent damages experts work worldwide to value intangibles in most industries – from high technology to education, healthcare to e-commerce, and transport to consumer goods.
We are experienced in analysing the multitude of issues required to assess intellectual property damages. These include such aspects as apportionment of profits, manufacturing and sales capacity, available alternatives, customer demand, company and product profitability.
Our intellectual property experts have evaluated and determined reasonable royalties for a broad range of products and industries, reviewing and analysing thousands of licence agreements.
Technologies valued by our intellectual property and patent damages experts have involved semiconductors, telecoms, computing, software, memory storage systems, networking, medical devices, and life sciences. Our intellectual property specialists have prepared and assessed claims for lost profits, price erosion, reasonable royalties, reasonable royalties in the context of FRAND obligations, unjust enrichment and other measures of economic damages. Our experts have performed analysis of reasonable royalties in the context of standard essential patents or patents subject to FRAND obligations involving cellular technology standards and WLAN standards.
Patent damages cases involving cellular technology have seen our experts testify in various courts, from China to the High Court of England and Wales.
Our intellectual property and patent damages experts have also provided testimony in high-profile jury trial cases in the US, including Oracle’s $1.3 billion software copyright infringement verdict against SAP – the largest at the time – and the $10 million defence verdict for MGA Entertainment against Mattel’s $1.8 billion Bratz doll damages claim.
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Why choose HKA’s intellectual property expert services?
The analytical rigour and presentation skills of HKA intellectual property experts and consultants ensure that our valuations are clear and credible. Their experience spans multiple industries, jurisdictions, international arbitrations, and some of the most notable copyright and patent damages cases over the last twenty years.
The issues involved in IP disputes are complex. Navigating them requires expertise in valuation and damages assessment underpinned by a detailed understanding of applicable legal statutes, case law, economic and damages theory, and valuation concepts.
We help you and your legal advisors assess the economic harm that results when rights are infringed, misappropriated, or associated agreements are breached. Our intellectual property consulting and expert services include:
- Damages analysis and quantification
- Licensing strategy and support
- Intellectual property valuation
- Royalty compliance investigations
- ITC Section 337 Investigations
- Evaluating fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) royalty rates
- Assessing disgorgement / unjust enrichment of the infringer
- Conducting valuation analysis
- Performing royalty compliance investigations
- Litigation support
- Supporting mediation and settlement negotiations
- Preparing expert reports
- Testifying at court and arbitration hearings
Meet some of our globally-recognised world-leading IP Experts
Paul Myer
Paul K Meyer has 40 years of experience consulting on financial, accounting, valuation and damages matters. He has been appointed as an expert in over 500 matters. Paul has testified in over 250 depositions and approximately 75 trials and major arbitrations in US state and federal Courts, the High Court of England and Wales, the International Trade Commission, the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
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Thomas Britven
Thomas Britven has more than 30 years of experience as a financial damages consultant and trusted advisor specializing in intellectual property and complex commercial litigations. He has served as an expert in over 600 hundred matters. Thomas has provided expert testimony in over 60 trials, arbitrations, and mediations across the USA and internationally. His focus is on large matters involving multiple causes of action, which often include intellectual property disputes. The claims in these matters have varied in size up to more than $7 billion.
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Doug Ellis
Douglas Ellis (Doug) is an economic damages expert and trusted advisor with nearly 25 years of experience. He has provided dispute support in over 300 cases, signed more than 75 expert reports, and testified in nine trials, arbitrations, and mediations across the United States. Doug is experienced and credible in providing testimony in federal courts, state courts, and domestic and international arbitrations on commissions with disputed values of up to US$224 million.
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John Hansen
John L Hansen is a Certified Public Accountant with more than 30 years of experience. He has been appointed as an expert on hundreds of occasions. John has testified as an expert on damages and economic issues in trial and arbitration, state courts, federal courts, and before the International Trade Commission. He has presented declarations and deposition testimony before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and participated in settlement negotiations and mediations for disputed values exceeding $250 million.
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