DeForest McDuff, Ph.D.

DeForest McDuff, Ph.D. is a consultant and experienced expert witness in economics, business, damages, competition, and other areas. He provides economic analysis that is relied upon by clients, courts, and government agencies to support sound economic decisions. Dr. McDuff has been named as a nationally recognized economic expert in the IAM Patent 1000. He founded Insight Economics in 2017.

Dr. McDuff provides economic consulting and testimony in many areas, such as:

•  Damages: lost profits, reasonable royalty, business impact, loss of value;
•  Intellectual property: patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights;
•  Unfair competition: economic harm, unjust enrichment, false advertising;
•  Antitrust: market definition, restraints on competition, competitive impact;
•  Economic analysis: irreparable harm, balance of hardships, class certification;
•  Other areas: valuation, financial analysis, labor, employment, and more.

Dr. McDuff’s experience includes more than 150 expert reports, 80 depositions, and 30 trials and evidentiary hearings in courts across the country. His experience outside the courtroom includes regulatory analysis, fair market valuation, licensing, negotiation, product launches, strategic analysis, and other topics. He regularly works in the pharmaceutical, medical device, electronic, and software industries, among others.

Dr. McDuff is a teaching professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, where he received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for his academic research in financial economics and applied microeconomics (awarded to 25 graduate students in economics nationwide each year). Dr. McDuff has published in peer-reviewed academic journals and widely reviewed industry publications. He graduated summa cum laude with bachelor’s degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Maryland.

Credentials:

• UNC-Chapel Hill, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics
• Princeton University, Ph.D. in Economics
• University of Maryland, B.A. in Economics, B.S. in Mathematics