Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration

Edited by Simon Klopschinski, Partner, rospatt Intellectual Property Lawyers, Düsseldorf and Mary-Rose McGuire, Professor for IP-law and Civil Procedure, European Legal Studies Institute, University of Osnabrück, Germany

‘From a scholarly perspective, the Handbook functions as a foundational reference work, synthesizing existing debates while advancing a more nuanced understanding of arbitration’s place within global IP governance. For practitioners, it offers concrete institutional and comparative insights essential for strategic decision-making in complex disputes, and for policymakers and institutional actors, it provides a measured account of how arbitration can be integrated into IP enforcement structures without undermining public regulatory objectives. Through its careful mapping of doctrine, procedure, sectoral practice, and national variation, The Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration makes a lasting and authoritative contribution to the literature, establishing an important benchmark for future scholarship at the intersection of intellectual property and dispute resolution and remaining an indispensable guide to both the potential and the limits of IP arbitration.’

• Contents:Preface and acknowledgements xiiIntroduction to the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration 1Simon Klopschinski and Mary-Rose McGuirePART I IPRS AND ARBITRATION IN GENERAL1 Arbitrability of IPRs disputes 7Antje Baumann2 Arbitration bodies for arbitration of IPRs disputes – IP arbitration andDIS arbitration rules 27Jennifer Bryant3 Arbitration through the Unified Patent Court’s PMAC 44Peter Georg Picht4 Mediation of IPR disputes 56Maximilian Haedicke and Alexandra Kükenh.hner5 Mediation of IP disputes 70Peter Tochtermann6 Arbitration – the chamber of secrets? An analysis of procedural rulesand technical tools for the protection of trade secrets in arbitration 81Marko Andjic7 Recognition of state court decisions arising from IPR disputes byarbitral tribunals under the Brussels Ia-Regulation 101Stephan KlebesPART II SPECIFIC FIELDS OF IPRS ARBITRATION8 Arbitration v. litigation in disputes related to licensing agreements 118Mary-Rose McGuire9 Arbitration in SEP/FRAND disputes 138Peter Georg Picht10 Efficient arbitration agreements in the context of patent pools –consideration of rules on multi-party arbitration in licensing disputes 160Lea Tochtermann11 Copyright arbitration in the Brazilian media market 183Cláudio Lins de Vasconcelos12 Domain name arbitration 200Christopher S. Gibson13 The protection of intellectual property rights through WTO dispute settlement 231James Mendenhall and Eric M. Solovy14 International investment arbitration as an alternative venue for litigatingintellectual property disputes: The example of beIN Corporation vSaudi Arabia 255Simon KlopschinskiPART III NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON IPRS ARBITRATION15 Resolution of IPR disputes in Australia 274Jey Nandacumaran, Rachelle Downie, Colette Downie and Grant Fisher16 Arbitration of intellectual property rights disputes in Austria 315Alexander Zojer17 Intellectual property rights arbitration in Brazil 331Viviane Kunisawa18 Arbitration of IP disputes in China 347Douglas Clark19 Arbitration of IPRs in England & Wales 366Alex Wilson, Tom Oliver and Alex Borthwick20 Arbitration and intellectual property in French law 382Camille Pecnard and Antoine Jarlot21 Patent disputes in Germany: arbitration vs litigation 402Simon Klopschinski22 IPRs arbitration in Indonesia and South-East Asia 419Sih Yuliana Wahyuningtyas and Davin Giovannus23 IPRs arbitration in Italy: potential benefits and future challenges 440Gianluca Massimei and Pierluigi Dodaro24 IPRs Arbitration in Japan 459Nobuto Shirane25 IP arbitration in Korea 463Hyungkeun Lee and Cyril Chan26 IPRs arbitration in Mexico 47527 IPRs arbitration in the Netherlands 494Michiel Rijsdisek28 IPRs arbitration in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic 504Michał Stępień29 IP and arbitration in Russia 533Burkhard Breig and Alexander Muranov30 IPRs arbitration in Switzerland 547Michael Ritscher, Simon Holzer, Christian Fischer and Andrea Schäffler31 IPRs arbitration in the US 554Roger J. Chin, Michael A. Morin and Reba L. Rabenstein