Patent Law

WIPO Mediation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

By Les Weinstein, Michael Young, John Leo Wagner, Eric van Ginkel, and Victoria Pynchon

If you'd like to learn how WIPO mediation cases have been resolved, WIPO has posted mediation case studies of patent, copyright, telecom, biotech, IT, trademark co-existence, pharma licensing, and telecom patent licensing disputes.

These brief case studies should be of use to corporate executives, General Counsel, outside counsel, mediators and arbitrators alike.

In the current economic downturn, we need all the help we can get in resolving disputes as efficiently and effectively as possible.  Mediation isn't always the answer, of course, and must be timed when the case is "ripe" for settlement.  If you're leery of mediation's ability to resolve your dispute, take a look at the WIPO case study (on the same linked page above) on a copyright mediation followed by an expedited arbitration.

Good stuff.  Check it out!

Full post as published by IP ADR Blog on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).