CRA was retained by the market leader in a segment of the building materials industry to determine damages due to alleged patent infringement by the second largest player in this multi-supplier market. CRA’s team of expert consultants analyzed commercial success and developed complex lost profits models to address different product segments, multiple distribution channels, and regional supply/demand variations in this highly cyclical, capital-intensive industry. CRA’s expert’s lost profits models included a region-by-region market share/pricing analysis and a plant-by-plant analysis of capacity and incremental costs. CRA’s team also determined a reasonable royalty based on multiple factors, including apportionment of the economic benefits of the asserted patents, comparable licenses, and the Georgia-Pacific factors.
Who bore the tariff burden? Economics of IEEPA refund disputes
The refund question sits at the intersection of customs procedure, administrative law, but also economics, and resolution will likely vary significantly across...