International Arbitration: The Only Way to Resolve Multi-Jurisdictional Patent Disputes in a Single Forum
Article from: TDM 1 (2009), in Intellectual Property Rights and Investment Disputes
Introduction
Globalization and trade liberalization have led to enormous economic benefits for multinational companies and have spread the introduction of new technologies around the world at a greatly accelerated pace. With every new opportunity, however, comes new challenges. One of the more difficult challenges facing multinational companies relates to protection of patent assets across a wildly divergent and fractious international patent landscape. Even those multinational organizations focusing primarily on Europe and the United States are faced with extraordinary difficulties when ...