Arbitrating Patent Disputes: Innovative Approaches and the Intersection with Public Policy

Four-location, video-linked conference featuring speakers from the United States and Europe

PANEL 1 : Innovative Approaches to Patent Arbitration: Lessons from the Trenches

The program will discuss specific ways to use the flexibility of arbitration to resolve patent-related disputes in a more efficient way than can be done in litigation. Topics to be discussed include effective case management techniques that involve a standard arbitration clause as well as innovative arbitration clauses that include special procedures.

Moderator: Marc Peters, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Palo Alto

Speakers: P. Jean Baker, American Arbitration Association,Washington, DC Ignacio de Castro, Deputy Director, WIPO Arbitration and

Mediation Center, Geneva, Scott Donahey, Independent Arbitrator, Palo Alto Harrie Samaras, Independent Arbitrator, Pennsylvania

PANEL 2: Patent Law: A Public Policy Basis for Vacatur?

The program will examine the circumstances under which a patent arbitration award may (or should) be denied recognition or enforcement under the public policy exception of Article V of the New York Convention.

Topics to be discussed include how the public policy exception has been interpreted by American and European courts; what aspects of patent law, if any, qualify as Mandatory Law; and the intersection of patent and competition law.

Moderator: Steven H. Reisberg, Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, New York

Speakers: Annet van Hooft, Bird & Bird, Paris, Sherman Kahn, Mauriel Kapouytian Woods LLP, New York, Grant L. Kim, LimNexus LLP, San Francisco, Charles R. Macedo, Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP, New York

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