Jon Putnam

Jon Putnam founded Competition Dynamics as a platform for economic research and testimony at the intersection of intellectual property, competition, and international trade law.

Dr. Putnam has been retained in more than 300 consulting engagements and has testified live or by deposition more than 100 times in patent, antitrust, copyright, trade secret, contract and  tax actions in federal, state and bankruptcy courts; before the US Federal Trade Commission, International Trade Commission, and Tax Court; in US and international arbitrations; and in proceedings in the U.K., Germany, Canada, India, China and Singapore.   Cases with more than $1 billion in controversy include Medtronic v. Internal Revenue Service; Apple v. Qualcomm; Idenix v. Gilead Sciences; Ericsson v. Huawei; Ericsson v. Apple; Ericsson v. Samsung; and InterDigital v. Samsung.

Before founding CD, Dr. Putnam held the ORDCF chair in the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property at the University of Toronto, and academic appointments at Boston University, Columbia University, Vassar College and Yale.

Recent major articles, available at ssrn.com, include:

• “Innovative Output in China”
• “Economic Determinations in ‘FRAND Rate’-Setting: A Guide for the Perplexed”
• “The Smallest Salable Patent Practicing Unit (SSPPU): Theory and Evidence”
• “Value Shares of Technologically Complex Products”

Dr. Putnam also authored:

• “Patent Valuation” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008)
• “The Law and Economics of International Intellectual Property: A Primer” in Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, 2:  Intellectual Property, Growth and Trade (2008)
• Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation in the Knowledge-Based Economy (editor) (2006)

Dr. Putnam holds BA, MA and PhD degrees in economics from Yale University, where he specialized in international, macro and R&D economics. He received fellowships at Yale and Columbia law schools. Dr. Putnam’s PhD thesis, The Value of International Patent Rights, was the first to measure the global value of patent rights.  His paper based on that research, “How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property” (with Lanjouw and Pakes), has been cited more than 1,000 times.