ADR Advocacy, Strategies, and Practice for Intellectual Property Cases

by Harrie Samaras (Editor)

Considering the large number of intellectual property cases that settle and the financial and business risks thereby avoided, specialized knowledge and experience in ADR is a must. This state-of-the-art compendium provides a single resource to the strategies, skills and practical expertise necessary to apply ADR in the simplest to most complex IP case. Intended as a practical resource for lawyers and business executives who need the understand alternative processes to litigation and how they can be used, this book offers collected wisdom from current or former jurists, neutrals, clients, professors, trial and transactional attorneys, and in-house counsel. With this wide-ranging expertise, the chapter authors consider all relevant perspectives in the ADR the attorney, the client, and the neutral. Following an overview of the practical uses of ADR in IP cases, authors focus on specific elements of employing ADR in the intellectual property legal arena, including issues related to drafting, early case assessment, mediation, use of a special master, mediating patent cases in the Federal Circuit’s mediation program, and the strategic use of the U.S. International Trade Commission for enforcing and resolving IP disputes.

402 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2013