Paul K Meyer

Paul K Meyer is president and co-founder of TM Financial Forensics LLC. Mr Meyer has provided consulting and valuation analysis in IP and licensing matters in a wide range of industries, including numerous high-tech assignments. His extensive IP experience includes damages valuation related to alleged infringement and misappropriation of patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets. Mr Meyer has consulted on a wide variety of products in many industries, including cellular communications, computer hardware and software, integrated circuits, consumer goods, flash memory, smartphones, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, satellite television, video games, aircraft, athletic footwear and automotive equipment. Mr Meyer has extensive experience in determining royalties for standard-essential technology subject to FRAND requirements.

Mr Meyer has testified in over 200 depositions and approximately 75 trials and major arbitrations, including 35 jury trials. He has testified in federal and state court, the London Court of International Arbitration and the International Trade Commission. Mr Meyer provided successful trial testimony in two of the largest copyright infringement trials in history:

• On behalf of the defendant, Mr Meyer provided rebuttal testimony to a $1.8 billion plaintiff damages claim, and the jury awarded only $10 million in copyright damages.
• Mr Meyer testified for the plaintiff, an international enterprise software company, in a copyright infringement dispute against a European competitor where the jury returned a $1.3 billion verdict. 

Mr Meyer is a certified public accountant (California and Virginia) and accredited in business valuation. As an adjunct professor at Stanford University’s School of Civil and Environment Engineering, Mr Meyer has held various appointments over 25 years with the university and has taught a course on financial, valuation and accounting issues. Additionally, Mr Meyer regularly lectures on damages and related economic issues to both industry and academic audiences.

A graduate of the University of Virginia, Mr Meyer is an advisory board member for the McIntire School of Commerce and recently served as a board of trustees member for the University of San Francisco (2014-2018).