Robert A. Freitas, Program Co-Chair, a Silicon Valley intellectual
property and litigation partner with Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP,
focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, insurance
coverage claims and litigation, antitrust law, and complex litigation.
Kenneth Serwin, Program Co-Chair, Senior Consultant at NERA
Economic Consulting, has extensive experience in performing economic
analyses and providing economic consulting services in a variety of
industries. His areas of expertise include intellectual property, antitrust,
transfer pricing, and financial economics. He has significant experience
in the valuation of intangible and intellectual property assets and the
measurement of economic damages in intellectual property and other
commercial disputes.
Evangelina Almirantearena is a partner at Howrey Simon Arnold &
White, LLP where her practice focuses on antitrust litigation, particularly
as it arises in the intellectual property area, antitrust counseling, criminal
antitrust defense and the representation of parties before the Department
of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
Gary Bender is a Senior Manager in the Global Investigations and
Dispute Advisory practice and leads the west coast Intellectual Asset
Solutions Team for Ernst & Young LLP. He has extensive experience in
providing specialized Intellectual Property management and litigation
consulting services, including assisting clients in a vast range of
technology industries with analysis and calculations of lost profit,
reasonable royalty, business interruption loss and other financial and
forensic accounting services.
Frederick Brown is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gibson Dunn
& Crutcher, LLP and a member of the firm’s Litigation and Intellectual
Property Practice Groups. He focuses his trial practice on patent
infringement and complex commercial cases, which he litigates in both
state and federal jurisdictions across the country. He recently has served
as lead counsel on multiple office teams in several high profile patent
infringement cases.
Barbara Caulfield is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel
for Affymetrix, Inc. She has extensive experience as a trial lawyer and,
from 1991-1994, served as a judge in the U.S. District of Northern
California. She has served on the National Patent Board, the National
Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Federal Practice Program of the
Northern District of California, which she founded in 1988, and has
taught at the U.C. Berkeley, Stanford and Harvard University law
schools.
Bonnie J. Goldsmith, a Managing Director in the Mountain View, CA
office of InteCap, Inc., possesses substantial experience in a range offields including consulting work and testimony in the accounting,
financial, economic and business issues associated with litigation. She is
a frequent lecturer, and a published author.
Gregory K. Leonard is a Vice President at NERA Economic Consulting.
His areas of expertise are applied microeconomics and econometrics. He
has extensive experience analyzing competition and estimating damages
in antitrust cases and patent infringement damages cases. He was one of
the developers of the merger simulation technique that is now widely
used to analyze the competitive effects of mergers. Dr. Leonard has
provided written and oral testimony on issues involving antitrust,
damages estimation, statistics and econometrics, and labor market
discrimination.
Matthew R. Lynde, Vice President of Cornerstone Research, has over
twenty years of experience as an economist in government, academic,
and commercial environments. Dr. Lynde has testified at depositions, in
state and federal courts, and at arbitrations in a variety of commercial
dispute matters. He specializes in the economic approach to damages
analysis, especially for intellectual property matters. He has testified or
consulted on a large number of cases involving high tech patents,
copyrights, and trade secrets, often for Fortune 50 clients.
Andrew B. Serwin is senior counsel in the San Diego office of Foley &
Lardner LLP. He is a member of the E-Business and Information
Technology, General Commercial Litigation and IP Litigation Practice
Groups, and the Media Law Team. Mr. Serwin’s litigation practice
includes unfair competition matters; corporate governance disputes; ecommerce;
breach of contract, partnership, real property and intellectual
property disputes.
David Steuer, of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, is a civil litigator
and trial lawyer with primary emphasis in securities litigation, corporate
governance matters, general commercial disputes, intellectual property
matters, and employee/trade secret issues.
Ryan M. Sullivan is a Principal with Bates White, LLC and head of the
Intellectual Property practice. As an expert in economics, finance, and
statistics, Dr. Sullivan specializes in applying statistical models and
quantitative methods to intellectual property and antitrust litigation
matters. With extensive experience analyzing market structure, conduct
of market participants, and economic performance, he determines
economic damages, asset value, lost profits, and licensing rates.
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