News | January 24, 2024
Secretariat Client Natera Wins Permanent Injunction
Comprehensive economic analysis performed by the Secretariat team demonstrates that a permanent injunction is warranted.
Dr. Sullivan is an expert in economics, finance, and statistics with more than 30 years of experience solving complex and challenging issues that organizations face in the competitive marketplace and the courtroom. He has been recognized as a top U.S. economic expert in the IAM Patent 1000 each year since 2014.
Ryan Sullivan, Ph.D., provides expertise in economics, finance, and statistics. With more than 30 years of experience, he applies his expertise to solving complex and challenging issues that organizations face in the competitive marketplace and the courtroom.
In the areas of litigation and disputes, Dr. Sullivan has wide-ranging experience with the economics of intellectual property and technology, technically demanding analyses of antitrust and competition, robust statistical modeling for labor and employment issues, and detailed quantitative analyses for securities and finance disputes.
In business analytics, Dr. Sullivan develops and implements state-of-the-art predictive models that provide reliable, evidence-based insights into business outcomes. These predictive models are implemented across various business challenges, including valuation, licensing, price optimization, promotional programs, business strategy, forecasting, and investing.
Dr. Sullivan is a recognized top U.S. economic expert by Intellectual Asset Management each year from 2014 to 2023. According to IAM, Dr. Sullivan “is a top-notch expert. He is incredibly smart, thoughtful, analytical and creative; he has excellent communication skills and a strong sense of integrity.” IAM further commented that the “outstanding academician is celebrated for his creative but rigorous, data driven approach and deep engagement with the questions at hand.”
Dr. Sullivan is often retained to provide expert testimony in high-stakes commercial litigation. He has provided expert testimony in more than a dozen cases, each with more than $1 billion in controversy. Dr. Sullivan has testified at trial in more than 30 cases and provided expert reports and deposition testimony in more than 100 cases.
Dr. Sullivan’s litigation-related work includes the following notable cases:
Dr. Sullivan’s academic work uses advanced statistical methods to evaluate the predictive ability of econometric models. He has published economic research in top-tier, peer-reviewed academic journals—including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Econometrics, and the International Journal of Forecasting—as well as articles on the economics of intellectual assets.
Dr. Sullivan serves on the Board of Directors of Inmedix, Inc., an innovative medical discovery company that is commercializing a novel class of diagnostics and cloud-based analytic strategies, including a heart rate variability EKG diagnostic that monitors the autonomic nervous system.
Dr. Sullivan previously served as the Treasurer and an officer on the Board of Trustees for San Diego Zoo Global, now known as the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
Dr. Sullivan established Quant Economics in 2006 and Intensity in 2014. He joined Secretariat in 2023.
Secretariat Client Natera Wins Permanent Injunction
Comprehensive economic analysis performed by the Secretariat team demonstrates that a permanent injunction is warranted.
Intensity and Seven Experts recognized in the 2023 IAM Patent 1000
Intensity receives recognition with seven experts included in the 2023 IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals Intensity, a Secretariat company, and seven experts have been recognized in the “IAM Patent 1000.” Ryan Sullivan was recognized for the tenth consecutive year and is joined in the rankings by Managing Directors Bruce Blacker, Richard Brady, […]
Dr. Ryan Sullivan of Intensity, a Secretariat company, provided trial testimony on behalf of Constellation Designs in patent infringement litigation involving television receiver technology.