Expert Witness | IP Counsel | Economic Analyst | AI, Big Data, Risk & Decision Modeler

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Technology moves faster than the speed of law. A team member who is both technologist and lawyer--as well as a deft strategist--can give you the edge you need to win.

Bruce Abramson, JD, PhD possesses a rare ability to express complex analyses in simple English. He has deployed this skill in many venues, but his focus for more than two decades has been expert testimony.

Dr. Abramson’s multidisciplinary practice draws upon his experience as a computer scientist, an economist, and an attorney. He has helped his clients navigate litigation, negotiation, growth, technology assessment, merger, and regulatory settings.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Dr. Abramson developed deep experience teaching and researching artificial intelligence (AI), big data, Bayesian modeling, statistics, and forecasting. He then deployed those skills in a variety of economic settings, shifting his focus into economic modeling.

His practical expertise includes valuing intellectual property and other asset classes; assessing damages and royalties; evaluating and deploying patents, products, digital copyrights, and technologies; devising growth strategies; drafting licenses, contracts, and patents; determining and predicting competitive effects and market responses; modeling and analyzing complex data; assembling and managing cross-functional teams; facilitating communication among engineering, management, and legal teams; marketing and cultivating client relationships; teaching, research, and public speaking; publishing books and articles on technology, business, and law.

Dr. Abramson has served as an expert witness in numerous cases, testifying in several interrelated areas:

• Damages, including but not restricted to patent damages;
• Technology industry custom and practice in licensing, breach of contract, and business tort suits;
• Infringement, licensing, and damages and policy in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other IP cases;
• Technical aspects of selected soft-side technologies (software, Internet, business methods);
• The interplay between antitrust and IP laws.

In each of these areas, his experience combines working with counsel to devise and/or refine appropriate theories with conducting and presenting the actual analyses.

Dr. Abramson prides himself on providing his clients with a serious value advantage. He is particularly adept as a troubleshooter. Over the years, he has learned how to minimize overhead and hold costs down without sacrificing the quality of his work. He has also mastered working on tight deadlines—including engagements that arrive shortly after the last minute. Many of the clients upon whom he has conferred the greatest value are those who need help connecting their liability cases to a viable theory of damages, or of tailoring their discovery requests to ask the right questions.

Dr. Abramson is also a frequent public speaker who has contributed to the scholarly literature of Computer Science, Management Science, and Law. He has written to general-audience books to explain the interplay among new technologies, the businesses that deploy them, the laws that regulate those businesses, and the policies that guide those laws.

For more information about Dr. Abramson, please peruse his publications list, or visit his pages on Jurispro, HG.org, Amazon, The Chess Wiki, LinkedIn, and elsewhere. To see him in action, view his 2013 video presentations "Patent Strategy in the Modern Economy" and "Winning the Aftermarket"