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LEER MÁSBrian W. Napper se unió a J.S. Held en marzo de 2022, como parte de la adquisición de Ocean Tomo por parte de J.S. Held . He is an intellectual property valuation, licensing, and commercialization expert skilled in the determination of financial damages. With over 30 years of professional experience, Brian is a Senior Managing Director in San Francisco and New York for Ocean Tomo, a part of J.S. Held. He is also part of the Leadership Team.
On more than 80 occasions over the last ten years, Brian has provided deposition, trial, and arbitration testimony across a wide range of courts and tribunals. Su testimonio en tribunales cubre alguno de los foros de violación de patentes más populares del país, que incluyen ED Texas, Delaware, Nevada, ND California, ED California, WD California, ND Illinois, ED Virginia y WD Wisconsin.
Ha prestado testimonio ante la Comisión de Comercio Internacional (ITC) y distintos paneles de arbitraje (incluida la Cámara de Comercio Internacional) en materia de industria nacional (ITC), daños económicos y tasas de licencias justas, razonables y no discriminatorias (FRAND).
Durante toda su carrera de más de 3 décadas, contribuyó a la definición de la teoría de daños a la propiedad intelectual (IP), al mismo tiempo que actuó como experto en numerosos casos sobre daños que sentaron precedente, entre ellos Uniloc v Microsoft y Lucent v Gateway. A menudo lo convocan para prestar testimonio en litigios complejos o significativos en términos económicos.
Brian continues to be a guest lecturer regarding intellectual property/patent damages at a number of leading law schools, including Northwestern, NYU, Catholic University, as well as the National Technology Law Conference hosted by the National Chiao Tung University School of Law in Taipei, Taiwan.
Brian has extensive experience in the determination of Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) royalty rates in telecom, Wi-Fi, video coding/decoding, and has testified extensively in various venues. He is a regularly featured speaker at the UCL Patents and Standards Conference in London.
Brian's clients are based in the US, Europe, and Asia and cover various industries, including telecom, semiconductors, life sciences, medical devices, software, clean energy, cloud computing, and social media. He has also analyzed the value of intellectual property on numerous engagements for the purpose of providing transaction, valuation, commercialization, and IP management advice.
Before joining Ocean Tomo, Brian was a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, as global lead of IP, and Co-Founder and Partner at StoneTurn Group. Prior to that, he was a Principal at Deloitte & Touche (Global Head of IP), a Founding Shareholder of The Barrington Consulting Group, and began his career at Peterson Consulting.
Brian is a frequent speaker on the financial, accounting, business, and legal issues related to intellectual property. Es autor de varios artículos sobre litigios, estrategias y licencias de propiedad intelectual.
Brian holds a B.S. in Business Administration, Accounting and Finance from the University of California, Berkeley. He also completed the University of California, Berkeley Technology Transfer and Commercialization Study Program and subsequently was asked to teach the IP valuation segment of this program. Professionally, he is a member of the Sedona Conference FRAND International Working Group and previously participated in the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Damages Theories committee as well as the Chair of the Energy, Chemical, and Polymers committee of the Licensing Executive Society.
Brian was a contributor to J.S. Held's 2024 Global Risk Report.
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