Sms Systems Maintenance Services, Inc. v. Digital Equipment Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• requiring that the cumulation of an expert’s data be “consistent with standards of [his] profession”
• noting that conclusory, self-serving testimony need not be credited on summary judgment
• explaining that courts need not credit at summary judgment conclusory, self-serving 31 Spencer does not state in his affidavit that any of these people who supposedly lack this license were also operating heavy machinery. speculation in affidavits
• rejecting anecdotal testimony of two customers that migrating to alternative platform would be costly; “[a] lock-in phenomenon must be shown, not assumed”
• finding several inconsistent statements properly considered to 2 discount subjective testimony
• “[T]he transparency of [defendant’s] allegedly monopolistic policy represents a salient departure from the Kodak scenario.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).