Six Things You Should Know About Mediating Licensing Disputes

摘要

Savvy business people are looking to mediation as a way to cut the transaction costs of managing intellectual property disputes by avoiding lengthy litigation. Only a small number of costly patent infringement cases go to trial, and about 90% of these are resolved, often by entering into a licensing agreement for future use. Mediation is a low-risk process. It has an impressively high success rate when conducted by an experienced mediator. Participants value the confidentiality that cloaks the process and also the control that they gain over the resolution of the dispute.