Civil Procedure Law, Arts. 104(1) and 111; Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Cases Involving the Examination

of Act Preservation in Intellectual Property Right Disputes, Arts. 6, 7, 8 and 10 – Self-Cleaning Sweeping and Mopping Robots [...]

AbstractMatthias Leistner recently addressed the question of how the Unified Patent Court should implement the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)

in Huawei v. ZTE in patent infringement proceedings involving a FRAND defence (GRUR Patent 2024, 327). [...]

AbstractThe purpose of this analysis is to offer insights on how the recently established Unified Patent Court (‘UPC’) – particularly the Court of Appeal in Luxembourg

– might apply the Doctrine of Equivalents (‘DoE’). The answer to this question will affect, in a concrete manner, the scope of protection of most patents (with [...]

This article examines the use of crowdsourced dispute resolution as a means of resolving disputes in an unbiased, evaluative fashion. The advantages of aggregated collective

intelligence over single evaluators have been demonstrated for centuries, but coordination has always been a challenge. [...]

Online mediation presents opportunities and risks for cross-border dispute resolution, particularly for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which might not have the

financial resources or capacity to travel and engage in physical dispute resolution fora. [...]

With the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal field, the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center (SVAMC) has introduced the first comprehensive

guidelines to managing the use of AI in arbitration, emphasising ethical considerations and arbitrator neutrality. [...]