Dr. Mario A. Lopez
Senior Consultant
Education
PhD and BA in economics, University of California, Berkeley
Experience
Dr. Lopez is a Senior Consultant in NERA's Intellectual Property and Antitrust Practices. In the area of intellectual property, Dr. Lopez has analyzed lost profit and reasonable royalty damages in patent infringement litigation, and has evaluated competition issues in the context of patent pools and standard setting organizations. He has advised clients on patent portfolio licensing policies, valuations of intellectual property for acquisition purposes, and the value of lost patent rights in foreign jurisdictions. Within antitrust, Dr. Lopez has analyzed price fixing and monopolization allegations, performed econometric analysis of the competitive effects of mergers, and evaluated economic issues related to class certification.
Dr. Lopez has studied intellectual property and antitrust issues in a variety of industries, including the pharmaceutical, semiconductor, DNA sequencing equipment, natural gas, crude oil production and transportation, ready-to-eat cereal, banking software, money transfer, and carpet manufacturing industries.
Dr. Lopez holds a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he specialized in the fields of industrial organization and the economics of institutions. His publications have appeared in Antitrust, Landslide, IP Law 360, and Intellectual Property Today. His research includes studying the outcomes of negotiations in experimental bargain games, the differences in intellectual property right (IPR) regimes across countries, and the relationship between IPR and economic development. In his PhD thesis, Dr. Lopez researched how firms compete through product and geographic differentiation, developing an empirical model to analyze how retailers choose their locations. The model allowed him to quantify the benefits that firms receive from geographic differentiation.
