Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center celebrates 10 years

Determining what arbitration act and law applies in the arbitration can be a problem if you don’t address the issue in your arbitration clause.

SVAMC finalizes its Guidelines for Use of AI in Arbitration

Press release: SVAMC announces 2024 Tech List of Neutrals

A credibility finding by an arbitrator leads to a finding of bias and vacating the award.

Coaching by messenger in arbitration leads to big trouble.

Supreme court: wait for appeal of decision denying arbitration before going ahead

Press release: SVAMC announces 2023 Tech List of Neutrals

Arbitration is often good. Bad arbitration clauses never are good.

Save-the-Date: Stanford Law School Advanced IP/Tech Mediation and Arbitration Course - June 8-9, 2023

Dealing with lack of arbitrators’ lack of explanation and the doctrine of functus officio

Supremes scuttle use of Cal’s PAGA to navigate around restrictions on representative actions

Prejudice to an opponent is not needed to find a waiver of arbitration rights.

Congress has cut back on arbitration in employment cases and may cut it back further. But it hasn’t yet.

The Act is signed by the President.

Congress amends the Federal Arbitration Act to allow plaintiffs to avoid mandatory arbitration of sexual assault and harassment claims

A “Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art” is mentioned so often in patent cases that he or she has an acronym: a POSA. This is because, in patent law, many of the most important issues are typically viewed from the perspective of a POSA, including claim construction, validity, and infringement. But just how is a POSA?

The Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center (SVAMC), has released its highly anticipated 2022 List of the World’s Leading Technology Neutrals (the “Tech List“). California-based non-profit, SVAMC, promotes efficient and effective technology dispute resolution, including the use of arbitration and mediation to resolve business disputes.