Cleve B. Tyler

Cleve B. Tyler, PhD, is a managing director at BRG who specializes in applying economic analyses to antitrust, intellectual property, and damages issues.

An economic consultant with more than twenty years of experience, Dr. Tyler also teaches, writes, and speaks about competition and intellectual property topics.  He has testified at deposition and trial in federal court, in state court, and at arbitration. Dr. Tyler is an adjunct professor of economics in Johns Hopkins University’s applied economics program, teaching graduate-level courses in industrial organization and microeconomics.

Dr. Tyler has developed or analyzed damages models for a range of matters including antitrust, unfair competition, patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud. His competition and antitrust work include evaluation of both horizontal and vertical issues and analysis of market definition, market power, and competitive effects using regression analysis and economic modeling. Dr. Tyler has analyzed economics and damages issues in many industries, including waste collection and disposal, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, semiconductors, memory products, telecommunications, data products and services, enterprise software, online search advertising, video games, insurance, healthcare, avionics, automotive and automobile components, home appliances, food and beverages, and electricity generation and distribution.