IP ADR Blog
"Intellectual property experts blog on the negotiated resolution of IP disputes—both before and after litigation has been initiated, as well as the arbitration of those disputes. The blog also covers recent developments in the law that impact the processes and procedures by which attorneys and their clients resolve IP disputes. We also throw a little social psychology of conflict and a bit of humor into our posts from time to time."
Author: Patent attorney, arbitrator and mediator Les Weinstein; IP litigator and mediator Michael Young; retired federal magistrate, the Hon. John Leo Wagner; international arbitrator; master mediator Eric van Ginkel; and Victoria Pynchon is a multiparty complex commercial mediator and arbitrator with a special emphasis in the resolution of patent, copyright and trademark disputes based in Beverly Hills, Calif. Pynchon also edits The Southern California Mediation Association Blog and Settle It Now Negotiation Blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Alternative Dispute Resolution • Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • Patent Law • Trademark Law
Recent Posts from IP ADR Blog
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Why Use an Expert IP Mediator? Let the Harvard Negotiation Law Review Tell You How
EXPERIENCED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MEDIATORS: INCREASINGLY ATTRACTIVE IN TIMES OF PATENT UNPREDICTABILITY Winter 2008 (Westlaw Link Here)Thanks to Ms. Tran for citing to the IP ADR Blog's Interview with Jay Taylor: Interview by Victoria Pynchon with Jay…
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Mediation Gone Wilder
Generally, we mediators like to consider mediation as a safe process, one where the parties can be candid with one another, where they can say what they think, where they can develop and explore options,…
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Negotiating Planning
There's a lot of meat to put on these bones but this set of suggestions for pre-negotiation preparation is a good start. It's applicability to IP negotiations next.PRE-NEGOTIATION TIPS – MEMORY JOGGERS 2 (summary) document…
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Domain Name Disputes: You Tube, CTV and American Girl Decided by Arbitrators from the National Arbitration Forum
What follows is a Press Release from the National Arbitration ForumMINNEAPOLIS, June 24, 2008—The National Arbitration Forum issued decisions on the rights to YouTube.net, CTV.com, and AmericanGirl.net. Conflicts over domain names are on the rise.…
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More Alternative ADR Practices: Preventing Patent Shark Attacks
If your company's business revenue depends to any degree upon its valuable patent portfolio head on over to the Harvard Business Review website and read "Patent Sharks" by Joachim Henkel and Markus Reitzig.Henkel and Reitzig make the…
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The Other ADR: Insurance and Indemnity Agreements
(right: Blackberry design patent from Patently-O article on the RIM settlement) Though the term "patent terrorist" is hyperbolic, the points made in How to fight against patent terrorism by Richard Wilder, a partner with Sidley Austin and…
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IP ADR: Pool Patents for Protection, Prevention and Profit
Check out this week's Harvard Business School Working Knowledge article: Monetizing IP: The Executive's Challenge here. As patent protection becomes more and more costly and less and less certain, innovators are pursuing collaborative agreements to prevent disputes…
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A PLEA TO IP LITIGATORS: DRAW ME PICTURES!!
Hap tip to Corner of Lex and Biz for Drawing that Explains Copyright Law with link to Eric J. Heels' Copyright rights, unregulated uses, and fair use whose drawing appears below. This is a plea from…
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Oldies but Goodies: Negotiate Better with Socrates and the Negotiation Guru
(Socrates image links to a fine article on "Intellectual Cheerfulness" here)As Dr. Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University has informed us, only seven percent of negotiators seek information that would reveal…
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Counterfeit Handbags, Mediation and the Rule of Law
Mediating a fairly run-of-the-mill commercial case – a fight over the sale of an import business -- a federal settlement officer slowly begins to conclude that the parties are bargaining over the value of a business that trades…