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Challenges to Quantifying Economic Harm from Data Breaches

Quantifying economic harm resulting from data breaches is challenging. It requires sound economic analysis to address a range of issues, including issues related to personal data exposure and the valuation of privacy, the use of dark-web data for benchmarking, and the difficulties in assessing mitigation costs for class-action lawsuits.

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Biopharmaceutical Reasonable Royalties on Trial

When our client, a biopharmaceutical company, had exclusively licensed a patent for a novel type of cancer immunotherapy, a competitor undertook substantial efforts to be first to market for its lead indication despite being aware of potential infringement claims against its therapy. Upon the competitor achieving FDA approval, our client filed patent infringement claims. After an eight-day trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of our client with a damages award that precisely matched the trial testimony.

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