News | February 12, 2025
Carrie Distler provided expert reports and trial testimony on behalf of San Diego craft brewer Stone Brewing in a trademark infringement suit against the maker of Keystone Light, Molson Coors.
Secretariat’s experts have unparalleled depth of experience providing analysis, opinions, and testimony in high-stakes patent litigation, proceedings at the International Trade Commission, and strategic advisory engagements. Our comprehensive range of services includes in-depth analyses of lost profits, reasonable royalties, injunctive relief, and commercial success. Secretariat’s expertise in patents extends beyond litigation and disputes, to advising clients on licensing negotiations, valuation, patent monetization strategies, product forecasting, and launch analyses.
Copyrights are essential to the protection of original works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression, such as a book, artwork, photograph, or music. Various types of remedies can be available in copyright litigation, including actual damages, the defendant’s profits, statutory damages, reasonable royalty damages, and injunctive relief. Our economic, finance, accounting, and statistical experts provide robust research, analysis, and expertise to assist clients in valuing copyrights and resolving copyright disputes involving statistical modeling or claims for monetary recovery or injunctive relief.
Trademarks are often an essential component of a company’s business model and plan. Trademarks, a form of intellectual property, are symbols, logos, words, or designs that assign unique identifiers to goods or services so that consumers can identify a particular company’s offerings and distinguish them from competing offerings. Our economic, finance, accounting, and statistical experts provide robust research, analysis, and expertise to assist clients in resolving Lanham Act and other trademark disputes involving claims for monetary recovery or injunctive relief.
Trade secrets provide an important avenue for companies to protect their market position in today’s complex, global business landscape. Trade secrets, a form of intellectual property, are confidential information that derive independent economic value from not being generally known. Disputes over trade secret misappropriation can create complicated environments for determining remedies. Our economic, finance, accounting, and statistical experts provide robust research, analysis, and expertise to assist clients in resolving trade secret disputes involving claims for monetary recovery or injunctive relief.
“High-stakes commercial and patent litigation is meat and drink to Intensity [now a part of Secretariat], which is distinguished by its incredible work ethic, responsiveness, timely delivery and quality of output.”
Dr. Brady has expertise in microeconomics and financial analysis. His experience includes high-stakes litigation matters involving life sciences, biotechnology, consumer technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, semiconductor, software-as-a-service (SaaS), music, tobacco, and tech industries, among others.
Carrie Distler provided expert reports and trial testimony on behalf of San Diego craft brewer Stone Brewing in a trademark infringement suit against the maker of Keystone Light, Molson Coors.
Secretariat and Nine Experts Recognized in the 2024 IAM Patent 1000
Nine Secretariat intellectual property experts have been recognized as leading patent litigation expert witnesses in the eleventh edition of the IAM Patent 1000.
Dr. Ryan Sullivan of Intensity, a Secretariat company, provided trial testimony on behalf of Constellation Designs in patent infringement litigation involving television receiver technology.