Intellectual Property
LECG intellectual property experts have a global perspective, solid expertise, and recognized credentials
Intangible assets are often a company's most important assets and the major source of its competitive advantage. Developing, managing, and protecting these assets is a key component to an effective business strategy.
Expert Testimony
LECG offers a global network of qualified, seasoned experts including distinguished academics, internationally recognized consultants, and industry experts. Our intellectual property experts and professional staff bring advanced training in all areas of business and economics related to intellectual property litigation, including accounting, finance, statistics, decision theory, and other business disciplines. Many of our experts have held significant positions in industry and government, which provide them with in-depth knowledge regarding various industries and technologies. In addition to PhDs in economics, finance, statistics and other disciplines, LECG experts hold a variety of significant professional credentials as certified public accountants, certified fraud examiners, certified valuation analysts, chartered financial analysts, and appraisers.
Damages Analyses LECG professionals have extensive experience assessing damages in commercial litigation in a wide range of industries. Our experts testify regarding damages assessed as lost profits, reasonable royalties, plaintiffs' actual damages, defendants' unjust enrichment, losses due to price erosion and suppression, gains due to accelerated market entry, restitution damages, and remedial damages such as corrective advertising. Our expertise in a wide range of commercial damages matters affords us the ability to address additional damages considerations as needed, including damages under contract, tortuous interference, antitrust, and fraud claims.
Market Issues
Over the past 20 years, intellectual property legal decisions have come to rely more heavily on economic logic, applying market principles to the adjudication of both liability and damages issues. As a result, issues such as relevant market definition (with its implications for non-infringing alternatives), intellectual property valuation, purchaser confusion, asserted pricing, and apportionment of value are being addressed with increased economic sophistication and a sharpened eye for conceptual consistency. Because we understand the economic and legal framework for intellectual property damages, our experts are able to address these issues in depth, and provide the rigorous data analyses to support their objective opinions.
Valuation of Intellectual Property
Our experts value a full range of intellectual property assets, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and trade dress. We also value intellectual property portfolios, product lines, and firms with substantial value in knowledge assets. LECG's strong basis in economics, finance, accounting, decision theory, and statistics enables us to provide our clients with state-of-the-art tools for valuing their intangible assets, and for assessing and managing financial and business risks, while effectively pursuing opportunities, and working with regulatory bodies concerned with valuations in the context of tax and transfer pricing issues, mergers, and acquisitions.
Management of Intellectual Property
LECG intellectual property experts assist clients in all phases of intellectual property management. We advise clients on strategic issues such as capturing value from knowledge assets or technological innovation, methods for efficient technology transfer, and intellectual property portfolio management. We also assist clients with analyses of market entry, development of licensing strategies including valuations, royalty compliance analyses, and audits of intangible assets and intellectual properties.
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