Case
Absorption Pharmaceuticals, LLC v. Reckitt Benckiser, LLC
Analysis Group was retained on behalf of Reckitt Benckiser, the defendant in a fraud and trade secret misappropriation lawsuit brought by Absorption Pharmaceuticals arising out of a failed acquisition. Absorption alleged that Reckitt extracted confidential information about its premature ejaculation (PE) spray product during acquisition negotiations, and used that information to develop, market, and sell its own product.
An Analysis Group team – led by Managing Principal Rebecca Kirk Fair and Principal Laura O’Laughlin – supported academic affiliate Professor Tülin Erdem, who filed an expert report and testified at trial. Professor Erdem opined on the factors that contribute to the commercial success of PE sprays, whether Absorption’s practices were well known in the industry, and whether those practices had economic value.
A jury in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey returned a favorable verdict for our client, finding that Reckitt had not misappropriated any trade secrets, nor had they knowingly misrepresented or omitted any information.
Testifiers
Amalia Rebecca Miller
AffiliateProfessor Miller is an economist whose research interests include public finance, labor economics, health economics, and industrial organization. Her research has covered Medicaid expansion, workplace competition and labor supply, financing of employment-based health insurance plans, and effects of COVID-19 shutdowns, among other topics. She has received research funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Department of Defense (DoD). Professor Miller is an associate editor of The Leadership Quarterly and the ILR Review, and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, and The Review of Economic Studies. She served two terms on the board of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. Professor Miller is a recipient of the Excellence in Reviewing Certificate from Labour Economics, the IZA Young Labor Economist Award, and the WHITE Award for Best Paper on Health IT and Economics. Professor Miller has also worked as an economist with the RAND Corporation.
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Alex Edmans
Professor of Finance, London Business SchoolProfessor Edmans has expertise in financial markets, securities fraud, and complex financial litigation.
A. Mitchell Polinsky
Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics, Stanford Law SchoolProfessor Polinsky has expertise in financial markets, securities fraud, and complex financial litigation.
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