Bruce D. Abramson

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Listed in Business Damages, Business Valuation, Computer Forensics, Computers, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Management, Risk Management, Software Engineering, Statistics, Telecommunications

Company Name: bdabramson.com
Education and Credentials:
J.D. Georgetown University Law Center, 2000
Ph.D. Computer Science, Columbia University, 1987
M.S. Computer Science, Columbia University, 1985
B.A. Computer Science and Mathematics, Columbia University, 1983
Specialties:
Experienced technologist, economist, and attorney with a multidisciplinary practice representing clients in litigation, negotiation, growth, technology assessment, merger, and regulatory settings. 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. Career highlights include:
• Devising and implementing a strategy that secured a seven figure patent settlement for small inventor.
• Enabling divestiture of an asset blocking a merger valued over fifty billion dollars, securing clearance for the deal.
• Obliterating plaintiff’s damage theory in litigation, reducing client defendant’s exposure by 99%.
• Altering major oil company’s approach and behavior in political risk assessment.
• Securing an assessment of zero damages for unindicted co-conspirator in a complex price-fixing case.
Experience:
Keystone Strategy, LLC (2014–present)
Senior Expert | Expert Witness, Technology and Economic Consultant

• Attracted law-firm clients to the expert witness practice of a major strategic and economic consulting firm.
• Testified on a range of technical and economic issues, including both damages and the infringement of intellectual property rights involving software, business methods, and the Internet.
• Provided consulting services to a range of firm clients in matters involving valuation, intellectual property analysis, and strategy.

Informationism, Inc. (2004–present)
CEO | Strategic Counsel, Expert Witness, and Research Lead

• Built a solo practice generating hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual revenues melding legal, strategic, and technical advising.
• Defended litigation clients against claims spiraling into many hundreds of millions of dollars, typically generating favorable confidential settlements at a small fraction of plaintiff’s demands.
• Secured sizable confidential settlements for litigation plaintiffs.
• Published books, articles, and monographs about the interplay among technology, business, law, and public policy. Keynoted international conferences by invitation from their sponsors.
• Mediated numerous disputes to successful resolutions favorable to both parties.
• Helped major research universities, governments, and intergovernmental agencies refine and revise IP policies.
• Collaborative appointments have included: Senior Consultant at Charles River Associates; Expert at Rosenfarb, LLC; Counsel at Cittone & Chinta, LLP; and Mediator at SEEDS.
• Prominent clients include: the World Bank; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Technical Chamber of Greece; Sheppard Mullin; Quinn Emanuel; DLA Piper; Alston & Bird; Turner Boyd; Wiley Rein; Rosen Saba; Foley & Lardner; Hantman and Associates; the Electronic Frontier Foundation; and the Alameda County, CA Courts.

Rimon, P.C. (2011–2014)
Partner | IP Advisory and Litigation Services

• Devised and deployed factual analyses for litigation clients. Settled numerous matters on confidential terms that clients deem strongly favorable.
• Drafted and critiqued contracts, licenses, and patents that meld technical, legal, and business concerns. Provided the mechanisms necessary for clients to secure millions of dollars of business.
• Attracted, recruited, and served clients generating significant firm revenues.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2003-2004)
Clerk | Chambers of the Hon. Arthur J. Gajarsa

• Wrote over forty bench memos to help a Federal Appeals Court Judge prepare for oral argument and decide cases relating to a broad range of legal issues in intellectual property, international trade, claims against the U.S. government, veterans affairs, personnel, and other areas of the law.
• Drafted a dozen recommended legal opinions for a Federal Appeals Court Judge tasked with writing for the Court in cases involving patents, digital copyrights, antitrust, government contracting, veterans’ affairs, tax, takings, and personnel. Worked closely with the Judge on both substance and presentation, and helped usher the opinions through the panel process to successful publication.
• Prominent cases included: The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc., 381 F.3d 1178 (Fed. Cir. 2004); SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp. 365 F.3d 1306 (Fed. Cir. 2004); and Unitherm Food Sys. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc., 375 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Circ. 2004).

Charles River Associates, Inc. (2000-2003)
Principal | Valuation, Antitrust, and Technology Economist
also: Consultant, Competition (1998-2000); Senior Consultant, Competition & IP (2004-2014)

• Generated over four million dollars in revenues for major consulting firm;
• Devised and implemented valuation strategies for plaintiffs and defendants in lawsuits involving billions of dollars, including several bet-the-company cases;
• Gained regulatory clearance for clients seeking to complete multi-billion dollar mergers;
• Provided critical industry analyses to regulatory agencies involved in restructuring critical economic sectors;
• Managed and supervised teams of junior analysts within a matrixed organization.
• Prominent clients included: Procter & Gamble, HotJobs, AOL, RealNetworks, Bandag, Pitney Bowes, IBM, Northrop, Duke Energy, and Neopost.
• Also maintained contracting affiliations as a Consultant (1998-2000) and as a Senior Consultant (2004-14).

Gordian Solutions, Inc. (1996–2000)
President | Economic and Technical Consultant, and Research Lead

• Applied advanced techniques for data extraction, data integrity, and quantitative analysis to legal issues in support of litigation experts opining about hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Proved an assessment of zero damages against an unindicted co-conspirator client in a complex price-fixing case.
• Explored the applicability of innovations from Artificial Intelligence and Decision Analysis to the energy, environmental, and defense sectors. Obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in research grants.
• Supervised teams of analysts involved in the collaborative preparation of economic expert reports.
• Prominent clients/collaborators included Carnegie Mellon University (as an adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy), The Brattle Group, and Charles River Associates.

Cambridge Research Associates, Inc. (1994-96)
Director | Economic and Policy Analysis, Defense Conversion

• Managed the engineering team conducting a process-oriented review of advanced military logistics. Developed a simulation system useful in identifying bottlenecks in logistical planning, and in deriving recommendations for speeding troop preparedness and deployment under a six-figure government contract.
• Identified defense conversion opportunities for projects that employed flight simulation and process simulation in the trucking, oil drilling, and commercial satellite industries capable of generating millions of dollars in additional revenues.
• Prepared a political security analysis for an American-allied air force subject to a multi-million dollar contract.

Information Extraction and Transport, Inc. (1993-94)
Principal Scientist | Advanced Computing and Military Intelligence

• Conducted technical and scientific research working primarily on ARPA (the Advanced Projects Research Agency) projects. Contributed to proposals necessary to secure government funding in the millions of dollars.
• Served as key member of scientific team developing Bayesian techniques to coordinate intelligence derived from numerous sources with varying degrees of credibility. Worked closely with both engineers and intelligence analysts.

University of Southern California (1987-93)
Assistant Professor | Department Computer Science, Social Science Research Institute

• Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in computer programming, artificial intelligence, decision analysis, and expert systems. Received a university-wide award for projects in innovative teaching.
• Pioneered research on heuristic search techniques; the use of both classical and Bayesian statistics in the design of search algorithms; techniques for generating automated consensus drawn from divergent data sources; and the applicability of structured interviewing techniques first developed for small-scale problem solving into spaces containing tens of thousands of variables.
• Applied cutting-edge research to develop full-blown simulation systems for predicting price movements in the oil markets, and for forecasting severe summer storms.
• Prominent collaborators included the Atlantic Richfield Company, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Arthur Andersen & Co., and Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett.
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Experienced technologist, economist, and attorney with a multidisciplinary practice representing clients in litigation, negotiation, growth, technology assessment, merger, and regulatory settings. 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. Career highlights include:
• Devising and implementing a strategy that secured a seven figure patent settlement for small inventor.
• Enabling divestiture of an asset blocking a merger valued over fifty billion dollars, securing clearance for the deal.
• Obliterating plaintiff’s damage theory in litigation, reducing client defendant’s exposure by 99%.
• Altering major oil company’s approach and behavior in political risk assessment.
• Securing an assessment of zero damages for unindicted co-conspirator in a complex price-fixing case.

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