Opinion ID: 428544
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Model-by-Model Price Comparisons

Text: 35 In response to the district court's Trial Management Order, plaintiffs submitted two expert witness reports that contain detailed model-by-model price comparisons of the CEPs that defendants sold in the United States and in Japan. The report of Walter Lukas was prepared on behalf of NUE and concerns only television receivers. The report of Karl Horn and Vito Brugliera was prepared on behalf of Zenith and concerns television receivers, radios, phonographs, and tape and cassette recorders. 36 The experts performed an analysis of the technologies of various models of defendants' CEPs and from that analysis matched models of CEPs sold in the United States with comparable models sold in Japan. The experts then compared the prices of the paired models for various years within the alleged conspiracy. The price data contained in these model-by-model price comparisons is based on price data contained in defendants' Japanese commodity tax documents and defendants' answers to plaintiffs' interrogatories numbers 45 and 46 and supplemental interrogatories numbers 10 and 11. 7 Plaintiffs' Final Pretrial Statement [FPS] Vol. 17 at 8051.