Los Angeles IP Experts
IP Valuation & Damages – Music, Film, Copyrights, Trademarks, Internet, Social Media, Celebrity Defamation & Publicity Rights
Nevium’s experience with entertainment related intellectual property and Internet issues is growing. Our Los Angeles IP experts have trial testimony experience related to highly publicized music cases as well as entertainment related copyright, trademark and right of publicity infringement issues happening on the Internet and on social media. These issues are complex and Nevium’s Los Angeles IP experts are able to clearly communicate these IP and Internet based issues to a judge and a jury. Nevium has access to 100s of licensing transactions with detailed royalty rate information that can be used to support our valuation analyses and economic damage calculations.
Doug Bania is a founding principal of Nevium Intellectual Property Consultants. Nevium is an intellectual property consulting firm specializing in developing IP strategies, IP valuation and monetization of IP as well as providing expert testimony related to IP damages and licensing customs and practices. Mr. Bania has been the named expert for approximately 57 cases, deposed 14 times and has provided mediation testimony 3 times and trial testimony 4 times. Mr. Bania is a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), a Google Analytics Certified Individual (GAIQ) and is a committee member for the International Trademark Association (INTA) Internet Committee, the ICANN Compliance and Domain Name Industry Subcommittee and the American Bar Association (ABA), Copyright & Social Media Committee.
Nevium’s IP Experts’ Experience
John C. Depp, II v. Amber Laura Heard, Circuit Court of Virginia, Fairfax County, No. CL-2019-0002911. Defamation, Internet, Media and Social Media Analytics, Expert Consulting, Deposition, Trial Testimony 2022
John C. Depp, II v. Amber Laura Heard, Circuit Court of Virginia, Fairfax County, No. CL-2019-0002911. Defamation, Causation, Damages, Internet, Media and Social Media Analytics, Rebuttal Expert, Deposition, Trial Testimony 2022
Patrice Gordon v. Board of Education for the City of Chicago, et al., Case No. 1:21-CV-00549, USDC for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Defamation, Internet, and Social Media Analysis, Expert Report, 2023
Softwave Tissue Regeneration Technologies, LLC. v. Thomas Kostopoulos and Kostopoulos Investment Holdings, LLC d/b/a Scale Marketing and Consulting, Case No. 1:22-cv-03392-SCJ, USDC, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. Trademark Damages, Expert Consulting, 2023
BakeMark USA, LLC, v. Clark Associates, Inc., The Webstaurant Store, d/b/a Webstaurantstore.com et al., Case No. 2:22-cv-03737, USDC, Central District of California. Trademark, Reverse Confusion Damages, Expert Consulting, 2023
Berookhim Royal Catering, Inc., d/b/a Beverly Catering, and Mehran Berookhim v. Shahbaz Farnad, et al., Case No. 20STCV15941, Superior Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles, Central District. Defamation, Internet, and Social Media Analysis, Expert Consulting, 2023
Moxie Pest Control (Utah), LLC, et al. v. Kyle Nielsen, an individual, et al., Case No. 2:21-CV-00240, USDC, District of Utah, Central Division. Trade Secret Damages, Expert Report, 2023
Halo Beauty Partners, LLC v. Clark Swanson, Swanson Global Enterprises Inc., et al., Case No. A- 21-837645-B, Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, Nevada. Defamation, Internet, and Social Media Analysis, Expert Report, 2023
John Johnson and Donovan Robinson v. Board of Education for the City of Chicago, et al., Case Nos. 2021-L-001072 and 2021-L-001047, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, County Department, Law Division. Defamation, Internet, and Social Media Analysis, Expert Report, 2023
Adriana’s Insurance Services Inc., and Adriana Gallardo v. Auto International Insurance Agency, Inc., Eric Pena, Richard Wetzel, and Outfront Media LLC, Case No. 8:22-cv-00174-JLS-ADS, USDC, District of California. Right of Publicity Damages, Expert Report, Deposition, 2023
Eric Coomer, PhD., v. Michael J. Lindell, Frankspeech LLC, and MyPillow, Inc., Case No. 1:22-cv-01129, USDC, District of Colorado. Defamation, Internet, and Social Media Analytics, Expert Report, 2023
Derek Jaeschke v. Bella+Canvas, LLC and Color Image Apparel, Inc., Case No. 19SMCV01008, Superior Court of the State of California County of Los Angeles, West District. Right of Publicity, Deposition, 2023
Tireboots by Universal Canvas, Inc. v. Tiresocks, Inc., et al, Case No. 1:20-cv-07404, USDC, Northern District of Illinois. Trademark Damages, Expert Report, Deposition, 2023
Hubert Hansen Intellectual Property Trust v. The Coca-Cola Company, Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Diego, Case No. 37-2016-00021046-CU-MC-CTL. Right of Publicity, Deposition, 2023
Global Apogee v. Sugarfina, Inc., Joshua Resnick, Rosie O’Neill, et al., Case No. 2:18-cv-05162 RSWL (Ex), USDC, Central District of California, Western Division (Los Angeles). Trademark Damages and Google Search Analysis, Expert Report, 2023
S10 Entertainment & Media LLC, v. Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.; and Samsung Electronics America, Inc, Case No. 2:21-cv-2443, USCD, Central District of California. Trademark Damages, Expert Report, Deposition, Trial Testimony, 2023
World Axe Throwing League, Inc, and Lincoln Chicago Holdings, Inc. v. Cold Steel, Inc., Lynn Thompson, and GSM LLC d/b/a GSM Outdoors, Case No. 2:20-cv-11407 JAK (Ex), filed in USDC, Central District of California, Western Division. Trademark Damages, Causation, Expert Report, Deposition, Trial Testimony, 2023
Garth Fisher, M.D., d/b/a Garth Fisher Skin Care, LLC, v. Rexford Surgical Institute, Inc., et al., Case no. 2:21-cv-05795-DSF-JPR, USDC, Central District of California, Western Division. Trademark Damages and Google Search Analysis, Expert Consulting, 2023
Fit Tea, LLC, v. Alani Nutrition, LLC, Case No. 1:22-cv-21568-JEM, USDC, Southern District of Florida, Miami Division. Trademark Damages, Expert Report, 2023
Mend Health, Inc., v. Carbon Health Technologies, Inc., Case No. 2:21-cv-06142 AB (MRWx), USDC, Central District of California. Internet Trademark Investigation, Expert Report, 2023
Flexware International LLC, v. AT&T Corp., Case No. 2:21-cv-07223 GW (ASx), USDC, Southern District of California, Western Division. Trademark Damages, Expert Consulting, 2023
Linda Fairstein v. Netflix, Inc., Ava Duvernay, and Attica Locke, USDC, Middle District of Florida, Fort Myers Division, case 2:20-cv-00180. Defamation Damages, Expert Report, 2022
Harman International Industries v. Jem Accessories d/b/a Xtreme Cables, Case No. 2:20-CV-0822, USDC, Central District of California, No. 2:20-CV-08222. Trademark Damages, Expert Report, 2022
Rodney Smith LTD., v. Sugar Factory, LLC, Case No. 2:20-cv-06854-ODW-JEM, USDC, Central District of California. Copyright Damages, Expert Report, 2022
John R. Vivian, Jr., Esquire v. Saint Luke’s Hospital of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania d/b/a St. Luke’s Hospital & Health Network; filed in the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, March 2012: No. 3376. Defamation Damages, Expert Report, 2022
Athos Overseas, Ltd v. YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, and Google, LLC, Case 1:21-cv-21698, USDC, Southern District of Florida. Copyright Damages, Expert Report, Deposition, 2022
Eddy Martinez v. Miami Children’s Health System, Inc. and Nicklaus Children’s Health System Executive Severance Policy, Case 1:21-cv-22700, filed in the circuit court of the eleventh judicial circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida. Defamation Damages, Expert Report, 2022
My First Shades, Inc. and SLP Enterprises, LLC v. Solarna, LLC, George Granoff and Bernard Kossar; Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Case No. 1884-CV-708-BLS1. Rebuttal opinions related to economic damages and online advertising. Trademark Damages and Google Search Results, Expert Report, Deposition, Trial Testimony, 2022