Kirti Gupta

Kirti Gupta is an engineer and economist specializing in technology; intellectual property (IP) issues such as standard essential patents (SEPs) and fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) licensing; and antitrust. Dr. Gupta addresses class certification, breach of contract claims, licensing, and damages in IP matters, and liability and damages issues in antitrust matters.

Dr. Gupta provides economic and statistical consulting, analysis, and expert testimony in complex business litigation. Her expertise in the technology sector spans engineering, supply chain, litigation, and policy issues. She serves as a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, DC-based think tank, and as a research director at the University of California, Berkeley.

Before joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. Gupta was the vice president and chief economist at Qualcomm Inc., a global leader in mobile communications and semiconductors.

Technology

Dr. Gupta has over twenty years of experience working in the technology industry, both as an engineer and as an economist. Her expertise includes mobile and wireless telecommunications (2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G networks and standard setting), the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected vehicles, semiconductors, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Gupta is a leader in Cornerstone Research’s Technology, Digital Economy, and Artificial Intelligence practice and writes and speaks regularly on technology and AI topics. She also holds more than fifty patents in the fields of wireless communications and networking.

Intellectual property

Dr. Gupta serves as a licensing and damages expert in complex IP litigation matters. She was an expert in TP-Link v. Netgear and provided trial testimony in Revvity Signals Software Inc. v. Cloud Software Group Inc.. She works as an in-house expert on many IP matters.

During her tenure at Qualcomm, Dr. Gupta worked on all phases of the IP lifecycle, including strategy, valuation, and licensing. She is also an expert on SEP/FRAND licensing issues and has taught and published extensively on these topics.

At CSIS, she is executive director of the LeadershIP program, which facilitates dialogue among industry leaders, scholars, and policymakers on innovation and IP issues.

Antitrust and competition

At Cornerstone Research, Dr. Gupta has worked on antitrust cases alleging tying, bundling, collusion, exclusive dealing, and predatory pricing.

While at Qualcomm, Dr. Gupta provided fact witness testimony in high-profile antitrust and IP litigation matters, including FTC v. Qualcomm. She also worked on global litigation matters and regulatory proceedings in the United States, the European Union, South Korea, Taiwan, and China, addressing various issues related to merger and conglomerate effects, as well as allegations of abuse of market dominance, refusal to deal, and excessive pricing.

In the United States, Dr. Gupta regularly presents to government entities, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Commerce (DoC), and the National Security Council (NSC). Internationally, she has spoken before various directorates-general (DGs) of the European Commission (EC), the Competition Commission of India (CCI), and the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC).

Thought leadership

Dr. Gupta speaks and publishes frequently on technology, IP, and competition issues. She has taught and presented at various academic institutions, including Cornell, Northwestern, and Stanford. She served as a visiting professor at New Delhi’s National Law University (NLU), where she taught IP and competition courses. Dr. Gupta’s work has been featured in Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Reuters, and The Economist, among other mainstream outlets.

Prior to her work as an economist, Dr. Gupta spent over a decade as a systems-engineering expert in global wireless standards and semiconductors that connect most of the mobile devices in the world today.