Dr. Animesh Giri, a Senior Associate at The Brattle Group, has experience conducting economic, marketing, and financial analyses across several industries, including life sciences, telecommunications, music, asset-backed securities, and financial services. He has extensive experience analyzing consumer behavior in a range of contexts, including antitrust, intellectual property (IP), class action product liability cases, and regulatory investigations.
Dr. Giri has consulted on IP cases in district courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC), addressing economic damages related to patent, copyright, and trademark infringement. His work includes assessments of reasonable royalties, lost profits, commercial success, and irreparable harm. Dr. Giri brings over a decade of experience in designing, implementing, and analyzing consumer surveys for antitrust, IP, and consumer protection matters. He has published in peer-reviewed academic journals and regularly contributes to professional outlets on topics related to IP and survey research.
The advent of generative AI brings to the forefront many novel and complex legal questions related to fair use and copyright infringement. Historically, assessing whether a particular use qualifies as fair use has been analyzed through an established economic framework. Applying the same methodology to copyright matters involving generative AI, however, presents unique challenges—primarily due to the distinct nature of the AI-generated content and the processes involved.