The aim of this study is to elucidate whether arbitration offers advantages compared to the patent litigation system … revocation proceedings. This account is followed by a comparison of arbitration and litigation in Germany in the light of the …

Under the national procedural rules of most countries, judicial assistance in aid of international arbitration will be … granted only by the courts at the seat of the arbitration (absent a letter rogatory from a court of the arbitral seat to a … court in another jurisdiction). Germany, following an arbitration-friendly approach, departed from this standard practice by …

America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …

Skating Union on a doping matter. The question at issue was whether the arbitration clause in the athlete’s contract for … participating in the World Championships, entered into with the only ice skating association, was actually amounting to an illegal … abuse of dominance under competition law. A lower court had – sensationally – held that the underlying arbitration clause …