Intellectual Property

Danilo Ruggero Di Bella (Bottega Di Bella)

Suggestions for the PMAC draft Mediation Rules

July 20, 2025

The Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (PMAC) of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has released a draft version of its Mediation Rules to undergo a public consultation process. The PMAC was…

Gerard Doolin (Be Amorgos IT Contractual Services)

Troubled Software Projects: Early Conflict Resolution

April 2, 2025

Understanding the Challenge From 2019 to 2022, the New Zealand International Arbitration Centre (NZIAC) collaborated with Gerard Doolin on an international research initiative exploring the causes of…

Yuying Zhang (Research Associate Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy)

Increasing Transparency in Intellectual Property Mediation

February 9, 2025

Introduction Mediation is commonly used as a form of appropriate dispute resolution (ADR) for various types of disputes, and this is increasingly so for intellectual property (IP) disputes. As…

Alan Limbury (Strategic Resolution)

Putting the spotlight back on hybrids

March 22, 2022

One of the important things that struck me about Dr. Anna Howard’s brilliant research into Mediation is the discovery that the General Counsel she interviewed for her project feel disappointed that…

Esther Pfaff (Hoffmann Eitle ) , Frank Gerhards (Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH)

A User Perspective: First-hand Mediation Experience in an International Patent Dispute

January 30, 2021

In this interview, Dr. Frank Gerhards shares his experience in using mediation proceedings to successfully resolve an active ingredient patent dispute between two major crop protection companies. Dr…