Justin Ho

Principal

Dr. Justin Ho is a Principal in the Life Sciences Practice. He is an experienced consultant in legal matters involving intellectual property, antitrust, and other commercial disputes concerning both liability and damages issues.

Dr. Ho has worked on matters involving a range of products, including biologics, small-molecule drugs, and medical devices. He has built substantial expertise in the business and regulatory considerations underlying drug and medical device development that complement his experience in economic analyses. For nearly a decade, he has been advising clients on disputes regarding efforts in drug development (license disputes and contract breach), antitrust matters (market definition and damages in reverse-payment settlements, and product tying), intellectual property disputes (evaluation of commercial success in ANDA litigation, reasonable royalty, and lost profit analyses), pricing (price fixing and welfare analyses), and product labeling matters (including both consumer and pharmaceutical product claims).

Dr. Ho’s doctoral work focused on industrial organization and the economic and strategic evaluation of firm behavior and contracting. His work has been published in the American Economic Review and the Journal of Industrial Economics.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    Expert defense of alleged generic drug price-fixing claims in Federal Court of Canada
    A CRA Life Sciences team was retained on behalf of Canadian pharmaceutical manufacturers in a class action matter alleging a conspiracy to fix prices
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  • 02
    Successful defense of Amgen-Horizon merger
    CRA’s Life Sciences consultants provided economic expert assistance to Amgen in defending against a FTC challenge to its acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics....
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  • 03
    Assessing delayed generic entry in Canadian market
    Experts in CRA’s Life Sciences Practice evaluated the impact of delayed generic entry in a Canadian Section 8 matter involving an oral oncology product. CRA...
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