Senior Professional Staff

Our staff of economists, econometricians, statisticians, and computer professionals serves a national and international client base. Our experts possess considerable experience as witnesses at depositions, trials, arbitrations, mediations, and administrative proceedings.

Roy Weinstein

President

Roy Weinstein has been engaged in economic research and consulting since 1969. Areas of expertise include the valuation of patent rights and other forms of intellectual property, antitrust economics, standard setting, alter ego, regulatory economics, event studies, damages calculations, bankruptcy issues, wage and hour litigation, econometrics, statistical analysis, surveys and sampling, and certain types of accounting and cost allocation questions. His patent and intellectual property work includes the calculation of lost profits and reasonable royalties, royalty audits, price erosion damages, and investigations of commercial success. His antitrust efforts have focused on issues relating to market definition, conduct, competitive impact and economic damages.

Mr. Weinstein’s articles appear in the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, The Licensing Journal, the Journal of Law and Technology, the International Journal of the Economics of Business, The Antitrust Bulletin, Competition, The National Law Journal, and the California State Bar Journal. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the National Association of Business Economists, and is affiliated with the American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Mr. Weinstein has appeared as an economic expert before U.S. District Courts, State Courts in various jurisdictions, the California Public Utilities Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the International Trade Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Texas Commissioner of Insurance, the International Chamber of Commerce, and the Provincial Division, Ontario, Canada. He also has served as a court-appointed expert on surveys and sampling and has testified at arbitrations conducted by the American Arbitration Association and the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service.

Mr. Weinstein received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree cum laude with honors in economics from City College New York and a Master of Arts degree in economics from the University of Chicago. While at City College, he received the Higgons Award and the Berliner Award for academic excellence. At Chicago, he was awarded fellowships from the U.S. Public Health Service and the Walgreen Foundation. He is a recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Business Economics Alumni Society of City College New York.

Robert Mills

Vice President

Robert Mills has extensive experience quantifying economic damages in connection with commercial litigation. He has served as an expert witness or consultant in a wide range of matters, including patent, trademark and copyright infringement, theft of trade secrets, publicity rights, breach of contract, interference, conversion, fraud, predatory pricing, price fixing, attempted monopolization, and labor disputes. His experience spans many industries, including software, semiconductors, telecommunications, manufacturing, apparel, insurance, energy, entertainment, waste, real estate, sporting goods, health care, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices, among others. Mr. Mills has testified as an economic expert in Federal District Court, state courts in multiple jurisdictions, and at arbitration. He has appeared at mediation venues and before the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mr. Mills also engages in economic research and consulting activities outside the context of litigation. He has assessed the anticipated competitive effects of mergers and joint ventures on behalf of government regulatory agencies and merging parties; developed forecasts and strategic recommendations for government agencies and clients involved with real estate development; assisted clients with the valuation of intangible assets and entire businesses; and provided support in licensing negotiations.

Mr. Mills received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and History and a Master of Science degree in Applied Economics from Portland State University. He received a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Kenneth E. Romig

Senior Consultant

Ken Romig has been engaged in economic consulting for 20 years. He has consulted on antitrust, intellectual property, breach of contract, and other general litigation issues, including pre-merger analysis, relevant market studies, and questions of commercial success. In the course of his work, Mr. Romig has conducted analyses pertaining to lost profits, reasonable royalties, price erosion, and other economic damages within a variety of industries. He also has analyzed the impact of patent exhaustion on economic damages tied to downstream products. He has consulted on matters before various districts of U.S. Federal Court, state courts, and the International Trade Commission. The industries in which he has been most frequently engaged are those relating to semiconductors, software, telecommunications, personal computing, rail transportation, and tobacco.

Mr. Romig also has consulted in areas outside of litigation. He has studied the competitive effects of mergers on behalf of merging parties and government regulatory agencies. He also has engaged in analyses of diligent enforcement of state statutes.

Mr. Romig is expert in the collection, construction, and management of very large and complex databases. He has broad knowledge of database design, analysis, and mining, and his practice has helped enhance his clients’ understanding of their own data. He has, for instance, undertaken product pricing system analyses and product distribution studies. In other engagements, where it has been appropriate to do so, Mr. Romig has made extensive use of demonstrative mapping techniques that provide geographic analysis that complements and augments traditional numerical analyses.

At present, Mr. Romig is involved in research relating to industry standards, standard setting organizations, and the role of intellectual property rights in those organizations.

Mr. Romig received a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Mathematics from Claremont McKenna College.

Jeremy DeGracia

Consultant, Director of Information Resources

Master of Library and Information Science, San José State University
B.A., Sociology & Asian American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles

Jeremy DeGracia has over twelve years of experience in litigation and economic consulting. His areas of expertise include company and industry analysis, intellectual property, antitrust economics, damages theory, securities fraud, class action lawsuits and business failure. Mr. DeGracia has conducted extensive research in a variety of industries, including computer hardware and software, automobiles, apparel, pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics, professional sports and motion pictures.

Mr. DeGracia assists counsel and witnesses with expert report, deposition and trial preparation. He has extensive knowledge of online resources such as LexisNexis, Westlaw, Thomson ONE, Dialog, Derwent, Factiva, LIVEDGAR and others. He is proficient in creating damages models, event studies, economic impact analyses and reasonable royalty calculations. He also manages the library at Micronomics and participates in ongoing firm development initiatives. He is skilled with computer software and languages such as SAS, XML, PHP, MySQL and HTML.

In September 1998, Mr. DeGracia co-authored an article entitled "Business Failure and Entrepreneurship in the United States" as part of an international study commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Mr. DeGracia also co-authored an article in 2006 entitled "Motion Picture Sequels, 1985-2004: The First One Does Better Except When It Doesn't." In 2004, he was awarded a graduate study scholarship by the Southern California Association of Law Libraries.

Mr. DeGracia received a Master of Library and Information Science from San José State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Christopher R. Harris

Consultant

M.A. Economics, San Diego State University
B.A. Economics, University of California at Irvine

Christopher Harris has consulted on engagements involving antitrust, intellectual property, and alter ego issues. He also has provided consulting services in connection with breach of contract disputes, standard setting issues, transfer pricing strategies, and economic impact studies. His work has involved calculating lost revenue, lost profits, and reasonable royalties as well as conducting market share and but-for analyses. He has experience consulting in several industries, including computer software, semiconductors, telecommunications, television and motion pictures, professional sports, sporting goods, retail, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology.

Mr. Harris previously was a tax consultant at Ernst & Young, LLP and a lecturer in the Department of Economics at San Diego State University, where he taught courses on the principles of macroeconomics.

Mr. Harris received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine. He received a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the San Diego State University.

Joseph C. Wilkerson

Consultant

B.S., Business Administration, Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Southern California

Joseph C. Wilkerson has provided consulting services in connection with engagements involving employment class action disputes, anticompetitive behavior, insurance coverage issues, patent infringement, and accounting and financial practices. He has significant expertise performing pay equity audits, statistical analyses of workforce composition, and labor market studies. Mr. Wilkerson is a skilled SAS programmer who has designed, assembled, maintained, and analyzed extremely large databases in disparate formats and platforms in connection with a variety of assignments.

Prior to joining Micronomics, Mr. Wilkerson was a founding member and Senior Manager at Resolution Economics LLC, where he specialized in providing consulting services in class action litigation involving employment discrimination and other labor issues.

Mr. Wilkerson received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he graduated from the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

Frank Stabile

Senior Analyst

B.A. Economics, University of California Los Angeles

Mr. Stabile has experience in a variety of fields including patent infringement, trademark infringement and damages related to consumer fraud. Industries in which Mr. Stabile has worked include telecommunications, medical devices, semiconductors, retail, apparel, and home services.

In addition to his casework, Mr. Stabile has contributed to ongoing research in the area of patent infringement and has compiled patent royalty databases for the medical device, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries, among others.

Prior to joining Micronomics, Mr. Stabile worked in the internal audit department at Mattel, Inc. and performed public policy analysis for the United States Conference of Mayors, a DC based lobbying organization.