CRA was retained by a leading medical device manufacturer’s consulting division to value the know-how it was considering acquiring from a team of renowned surgeons. The know-how consisted of unique techniques, protocols and procedures that were proven to improve patient outcomes at a lower cost. CRA’s due diligence included a site visit to catalog and observe the benefits of the applying the know-how and interviewed another ambulatory surgical center that had adopted the know-how. In preparing its appraisal report, CRA applied the Income Approach to quantify the incremental economic benefits of the know-how within a healthcare consultancy, and corroborated this value using the Market Approach.
Patent Damages: Recent Trends in Daubert Decisions
In this Insights, we update the Daubert Decision trends in last year’s Insights with 2021 data.[1] Daubert Decision trends are based on our review of available...