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Dr. Rao specializes in intellectual property, antitrust economics, and economic analysis in complex commercial disputes. His intellectual property expertise includes valuation, technology and market assessment, business strategy, and the interplay between intellectual property and antitrust. He has evaluated commercial success of patented products, including in ANDA actions involving pharmaceuticals. His expertise also includes economic analysis of antitrust liability, class certification issues, and the design and analysis of surveys. Dr. Rao has calculated economic damages in a wide range of cases, including patent and trademark infringement, antitrust, financial markets litigation, employment litigation, and breach of contract. Dr. Rao has served as an expert in US courts and in arbitration proceedings.
Dr. Rao currently teaches graduate-level finance in the engineering management program at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. He also teaches courses on valuing intellectual property at the Licensing Executives Society. Dr. Rao is an author of the chapter on econometric analysis in the Litigation Services Handbook, a leading reference for economic and financial experts, and taught PhD-level econometrics, among other courses, as a professor at UCLA. | 