Mr. Napper is a Senior Managing Director in FTI’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice in San Francisco and is the product leader of FTI’s intellectual property practice. Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Napper was the founder of, and Partner in StoneTurn Group LLP, a national firm specializing in providing accounting, financial and economic consulting services on a wide variety of projects, often in dispute matters. Mr. Napper was recently the Global Principal in Charge of Deloitte & Touche’s Intellectual Property Services and has over 20 years experience in the evaluation and quantification of economic damages arising from patent, copyright and trademark infringement, and trade secret misappropriation disputes. He also has extensive experience in advising client companies as to the valuation, commercialization, licensing and management of their intellectual property assets. His intellectual asset management clients include numerous Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of industries including semiconductor, telecommunication, consumer products, life sciences and computers (hardware, software and the internet). Mr. Napper’s background is in accounting, finance and economics, and he has a specific, focused understanding of those issues integral to the valuation and management of intellectual property.
Experience
Intellectual Property Valuation and Commercialization
Mr. Napper has directed numerous valuation projects related to patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. He has performed intellectual property audits and consulted with clients regarding the management of their intellectual property assets, focusing on the identification and better utilization of their portfolio of intangible assets. A significant portion of his practice is focused on the determination of royalty rates and terms for licensing agreements. Mr. Napper has participated in numerous licensing negotiations.
In the process of assisting clients in the valuation and commercialization of their intellectual property assets, Mr. Napper has critiqued and contributed to the development of business plans, and has performed market studies, defined potential markets, projected market share and evolving competitive influences, and developed future sales and cost estimates.
Patent, Copyright and Trademark Infringement
Mr. Napper has performed market analyses/studies wherein the patented or copyrighted product is sold, assessed lost profits stemming from alleged infringements, evaluated the contribution of the patented process/method to the end product and established the economic value of the underlying intellectual property.
Mr. Napper is skilled in the application of the Georgia-Pacific factors to the determination of reasonable royalty rates. He has determined reasonable royalty rates within patent infringement suits on many occasions in numerous industries. Over the course of his career, Mr. Napper has reviewed hundreds of license agreements, providing a broad frame of reference for reasonable royalty damages analyses. Mr. Napper has testified in federal and state court and arbitration proceedings on matters involving intellectual property valuation, lost profits, reasonable royalty and economic damages issues.