Rimon Attorneys

Contact Info

(415) 683-5472 ext. 227

Bruce.Abramson@rimonlaw.com

Bruce Abramson
California, District of Columbia

Intellectual Property, Litigation

Professional Experience

Bruce D. Abramson, an expert in the law and economics of technology who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia and a J.D. from Georgetown, has spent the past twenty-five years helping his clients recognize the value of their innovations and intangible assets. His work combines expertise in valuation, strategy, technology assessment, and competitive analysis with experience in patents, copyrights, trade secrets, standards, competitive effects and licenses.

Dr. Abramson regularly advises clients about the valuation, deployment, and antitrust effects of intellectual property, and about the design of incentive systems mostly likely to motivate innovation. He has applied these analyses to help his diverse client base resolve business-critical disputes, develop strategic business plans, reconfigure their IP portfolios, and better understand the competitive nature of their markets. He has counseled major technology corporations, startups, universities, international organizations and foreign governments in the areas of his expertise. His past clients have included The World Bank, the governments of Greece and India, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Procter & Gamble, HotJobs, AOL, RealNetworks, Bandag, Pitney Bowes, IBM, Northrop, Duke Energy, and Neopost.

Prior to joining Rimon, Dr. Abramson developed a practice through two firms that he founded, Informationism, Inc. and Gordian Solutions, Inc. His earlier appointments included serving as a Principal with Charles River Associates, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and a research scientist/director with two small defense contractors.

Dr. Abramson has published five books, more than 40 scholary articles, and is widely quoted as an authoritative expert in the media with regard to his areas of expertise. In addition, he has frequently testified as an expert witness in complex technology and valuation cases. Above all else, however, he prides himself on his ability to speak on technology, business, and law with equal comfort, and to express complex analyses in simple English.

Bars & Courts

Admitted in California
Admitted in the District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Education

Georgetown University J.D.
Columbia University Ph.D. in Computer Science
Columbia University M.S. in Computer Science
Columbia University B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics
University of California Certificate of Mediation

Publications

Books, Monographs, and Volumes

The Secret Circuit: The Little-Known Court Where the Rules of the Information Age Unfold (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)
India’s Journey Toward an Effective Patent System. Policy Research working paper no. WPS 4301 (World Bank, 2007)
Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How it Will Rise Again. (MIT Press, 2005) (Simplified Chinese version, ShangHai Yuandong Press, 2008)
The Expected-Outcome Model of Two-Player Games. Part of the series, Research Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Morgan Kaufmann, 1991)

Scholarly Articles

Preventing and Predicting Software License Disputes, SRR Journal, Spring 2011, 107
Are “Online Markets” Real and Relevant? From Monster/Hotjobs to Google/DoubleClick, Journal of Competition Law and Economics2008; doi: 10.1093/joclec/nhn026, 2008
Intellectual Property and the Alleged Collapsing of Aftermarkets. Rutgers Law Journal, 38: 399-472, 2007
The Fettered Liberty to Integrate: Legal Implications of Software Engineering. With Dmitri Mehlhorn. Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, 10: 209-224, 2004
From Investor Fantasy to Regulatory Nightmare: Bad Network Economics and the Internet’s Inevitable Monopolists. Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, 16: 159-228, 2002
Promoting Innovation in the Software Industry: A First Principles Approach to Intellectual Property Reform. Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, 8: 75-156, 2002
Analyzing Antitrust Analysis: The Roles of Fact and Economic Theory in Summary Judgment Adjudication. Antitrust Law Journal 69: 303-343, 2001
Blue Smoke or Science? The Challenge of Assessing Expertise Offered as Advocacy. Whittier Law Review 22: 723-778, 2001. Reprinted as Defense Law Journal 51: 233-286, 2002
Decision-Analytic Networks in Artificial Intelligence. With Izhar Matzkevich. Management Science 41: 1–22, 1995
Uncertainty Management in Expert Systems. With Keung-Chi Ng. IEEE Expert 5: 29–48, 1990
Control Strategies for Two-Player Games. ACM Computing Surveys 21: 137–161, 1989
Divide-and-Conquer Under Global Constraints: A Solution to the N-Queens Problem. With Moti Yung. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 6: 649–662, 1989