Profit on proprietary research tools is determined partly by the remedies for infringement, such as damages and … injunctions. We investigate how damages under a liability rule and the opportunity for injunctions under a property rule can … affect the incentives to develop research tools. We show that the prevailing legal doctrine of damages under liability rule …

company's net profit ratio. Methods of indirect loss calculation applied do not consider the cost structure of the plaintiff … and the impact of the variation of variable and fixed costs to the lost profit calculation before and after the wrongful …