Analysis Group Forum

Read about important cases and emerging litigation issues, and gain critical insights from our academic affiliates and professional staff.

Fall/Winter 2011: A Look at Patent Litigation and Valuation Post Reform

The passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) will affect patent-filing processes and resources. What about the litigation impacts?

In this issue of Forum, Managing Principal John J. Jarosz provides an overview of AIA and explores the valuation and litigation issues associated with it.


Also in this Issue: Recent IP and general litigation news, and an approach to handling missing data.

Common Threads in Mortgage-Backed Securities Cases


Common Threads in Mortgage-Backed Securities Cases

When deals involving residential mortgage-backed securities are in dispute, litigators and economic experts face a complex challenge: isolating the factors relevant for addressing liability, damages, or class certification issues; and assessing those factors within the context of varying markets, practices, disclosures, and levels of investor sophistication.
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Previous Issues 

2011 

Perspectives on Financial Reform
Changes for Credit Rating Agencies • Liquidation or Bailout?
• Measuring Risk at Systemically Important Firms • Customer Behavior and Class Actions • The Next Steps in American Needle, Inc. v. National Football League et al. • Modernization Opportunities in New EPA Regulations


2010 

New Ideas in Economic Research and Analysis
Analyzing Auto Safety Data • Perspectives on Investment Management Disputes • New Thinking on Antitrust Analysis
• Bear Stearns Securities Fraud Trial


2009 

Expert Insights on ERISA and Antitrust
Economic Analysis in ERISA Litigation • Presenting Demand Models in Antitrust Litigation • Summary Judgment in Oracle
10b-5 Securities Case • $400 Million Settlement for Abbott Labs


Expert Perspectives on Regulation and Reform
An Inside Look at the Credit Rating System • Reducing Corporate Exposure under the Lilly Ledbetter Act • Risk, Regulation, and Reform at the SEC • Proving Patent Damages


2008 

Perspectives on the Financial Crisis
Valuation Is Key in Bankruptcy Litigation • The Role of the Economic Expert in Class Certification • Economic Solutions to Water Conflicts • Perspectives on the Financial Crisis


Simplifying the Complexity of New Challenges
Economic Analysis, Fair Value Accounting and the Subprime Crisis • Calpine Bankruptcy Case • IAC/InteractiveCorp Litigation Win • Sallie Mae Suit Win

2007 

The Cases Behind the Headlines
Market Meltdown in Subprime Mortgages • BASF Breach of Contract Award • Intellectual Property Litigation Wins • New Managing Principal • New Academic Affiliates


A Range of Notable Cases
Patent Litigation and Permanent Injunctions • Alliance Bernstein Summary Judgment • Microsoft Iowa Settlement • Sears Bond Win • New Academic Affiliates


2006 

Important Cases and Emerging Issues
Billion-Dollar Mutual Fund Fee Suit • Off-Label Marketing • FCC Auctions • Stock Option Backdating Investigation


Expanding Our Chicago Presence
TiVo $74 Million Damages Award • New Mutual Fund Pricing Study • Settlement in Long-Running Patent Case • Historic Merger of NYSE


2005 

Milestones and New Directions
Trial Victory in Generic Drug Litigation • Economic Challenges in Class Certification • New Academic Affiliates • Practice Focus: Transfer Pricing & Tax


Two Major Trial Verdicts
Alliance Capital Victory • Mutual Fund Market Timing • Victory for E&Y in Securities Fraud Trial • Assessing Damages in Mass Tort Pharmaceutical Cases


2004 

Pride in Our People
Market Effects of U.S. Telecommunications Policy • Successful Class Action Defense • Price Measurement and Damages Calculations in Dynamic Industries • Procter & Gamble False Advertising Case