​​Mr. Tolles has three years of experience in quantifying economic damages for complex intellectual property disputes. This includes analyzing financial, sales, and other data, as well as license agreements, surveys, and deposition testimony to calculate and justify case-specific damages approaches. He applies his expertise in patent, trade secret, and contract disputes to help put forth accurate, well-supported damages opinions that drive positive client outcomes.

​Examples of Mr. Tolles’ work include the following projects:

• ​Reasonable royalty analysis for patent practiced in semiconductor manufacturing. Managed excel model calculating damages across numerous different products at issue, subsidiaries, geographies, and time periods. Used transaction data to determine the relationship between various chip features and price to determine incremental revenues, and determined incremental costs with manufacturing equipment varying across fabrication facilities and over time.
• ​Lost profits analysis for trade secrets used to fast-track options exchange development. Constructed dynamic excel model calculating damages for any head-start duration scenario determined at trial. Analyzed market dynamics to determine but-for market shares.
• ​Reasonable royalty analysis for patents used to improve tactile feedback in virtual reality systems. Analyzed product features and survey information to determine incremental revenues and compared component parts to determine incremental costs to determine a reasonable royalty rate.
• ​Critiqued and corrected opposing expert lost profits model in patent dispute regarding technology used to treat a variety of neurological disorders. Analyzed local markets and compared product offerings to demonstrate inaccuracy of opposing expert’s opinion that all of Defendants’ sales would have been made by Plaintiff absent patent infringement.​