Ngoc Ngo, Ph.D.
Economist
Competition Dynamics, Inc.
Dr. Ngoc Ngo is an economist at Competition Dynamics. She specializes in the advanced empirical analysis of intellectual property, antitrust and competition disputes in the telecommunication, medical device, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, computer software and industrial tools sectors. She has employed advanced econometric techniques to identify substitution patterns in pharmaceutical markets, to determine the causes of commercial success, and to measure the value of standard-essential patent portfolios. Ngoc managed complex client engagements in an array of intellectual property and other commercial litigation matters. She has testified by expert report and deposition in patent infringement litigation.
Outside the context of litigation, Ngoc consults with clients regarding the valuation of intellectual property assets, including the licensing of industry-leading patent portfolios. Her ongoing research concerns improved methods of valuing patents, and methods of measuring the value of patents essential to multiple technical standards.
Ngoc completed her Ph.D. in Applied Economics with a focus on industrial organization at Northeastern University. Before her doctoral studies, Ngoc attended Bates College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, with a B.A. in Economics.
Recent Articles by Ngoc Ngo, Ph.D.
Understanding the Entire Market Value Rule: Legal Foundations and Evolution
In patent damages, apportionment reflects the fundamental principle that a patentee may recover only the value attributable to the patented invention, not the value of unpatented features or components. In practice, this means that damages must be tied to the incremental contribution of the patented technology to the accused product. The entire market value rule (EMVR) is a doctrine in patent damages, in particular, reasonable royalty damages, that operates as a narrow “exception” to the apportionment principle.
Old Method, New Applications in Damages Calculations
In patent damages calculations, an expert generally faces the task of comparing the actual outcome (with infringement) to the outcome in a world without infringement. Reconstructing the market, by definition a hypothetical enterprise, requires the patentee to project economic results that did not occur.
