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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Tunheim denies both the university and the cell phone companies' motions to exclude expert testimony in the university's suit alleging infringement on its patents for cellular data transmission technology. The companies' damages expert's report is not so speculative as to warrant exclusion, and her purported use of a report with undisclosed methodology as a single data point for her own evaluation is a factual dispute better suited as a subject for trial testimony. The university's damages expert's report, similarly, is not excludable because of his use of the companies' entire LTE and 5G wireless subscriber base to calculate a reasonable royalty, although the expert's failure to properly apportion the royalty base is "highly concerning." Questions about whether the expert should have accounted for the age of the patents in suit should be decided by the jury, and his choice of one of 200 licensing agreements as a comparison in his negotiation analysis, while also concerning, is adequately explained to avoid exclusion.