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Email: melissa.pittaoulis@nera.com
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PhD and MA in sociology, Temple University
BA in criminal justice and sociology, La Salle University
Dr. Melissa Pittaoulis specializes in survey research, statistical sampling, and demography. Her survey research experience includes designing questionnaires, supervising data collection, and analyzing data. As part of her survey work, Dr. Pittaoulis works with clients to select--and, if necessary, design--control stimuli to include in the survey. In addition to designing surveys, Dr. Pittaoulis also reviews and evaluates third-party surveys.
Dr. Pittaoulis has extensive experience working on surveys used in intellectual property disputes concerning false advertising and trademark and trade dress infringement. In the area of trademark and trade dress infringement, Dr. Pittaoulis' project experience includes participating in the design of surveys used to establish likelihood of confusion, secondary meaning, and genericness. She has conducted false advertising and trademark surveys using different modes of data collection, including telephone, mall-intercept, and the Internet.
Dr. Pittaoulis' sampling expertise includes designing sampling plans, selecting samples, and calculating sample estimates and confidence intervals. Her demography work has concentrated on producing population estimates used in determining class certification.
Dr. Pittaoulis has worked on survey and sampling projects in a wide variety of industries, including: automobiles, beverages, beauty products, clothing apparel, computers, financial products, insurance, mobile phones, personal care products, pharmaceuticals, snack foods, and video games. In addition, Dr. Pittaoulis has considerable experience with radio and television audience measurement. She has also conducted studies on cost-sharing in the Medicare Part D program.
In addition to her work at NERA, Dr. Pittaoulis has taught statistics at the undergraduate level at Temple University. Her academic work uses survey research and in-depth interviews to examine how young people navigate the transition to adulthood.
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Americans' Health Priorities During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Dr. Melissa Pittaoulis, Dr. Molly Sapia | |||
Control Groups in Lanham Act Surveys | Published Article | By Dr. Eugene Ericksen and Dr. Melissa Pittaoulis | ||
Comments on EPA's Notice of Data Availability for §316(b) Stated Preference Surv... | Report | By Dr. David Harrison, Dr. Eugene Ericksen, Dr. Melissa Pittaoulis, and Dr. Bernard Reddy et. al. | ||
How Much Does that Medication Cost? A Study of Medicare Beneficiaries' Knowledge of O... | Study | By Dr. Eugene Ericksen and Melissa Pittaoulis | ||
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Best Practices for Using Survey Research in Trademark and Trade Dress Disputes | 28 June 2023 | |||
INTA 2022 Annual Meeting Live+ | 30 April 2022 | |||
Claim Substantiation and Advertising Perception Surveys | 07 October 2021 | |||
28th Annual Fordham IP Conference | 08 April 2021 | |||
NERA Insights Webinar Series: Intellectual Property | 19 November 2020 | |||
Women Leaders in Life Sciences Law | 18 November 2020 | |||
NERA Insights Webinar | Working with Experts to Litigate Liability and Damages in Fal... | 20 May 2020 | |||
2018 Berkeley – Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute | 06 December 2018 | |||
Building a Defensive IP Strategy: Leveraging the Favorable Landscape | 07 June 2017 | |||
AAPOR 68th Annual Conference | 16 May 2013 | |||
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'Substantial Percentage' of Medicare Beneficiaries are Uninformed on Out-of-Pocket Co... | 09 August 2011 | Press Release | ||
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