Common use of Inventorship Disputes Clause in Contracts

Inventorship Disputes. If the parties are unable to resolve any dispute regarding inventorship by negotiation or mediation under Section 9.1, they shall submit such dispute to binding arbitration under the C.P.R. Institute for Dispute Resolution Rules for Non-Administered Arbitration of Patent and Trade Secret Disputes. The arbitrator shall be an independent patent attorney residing in the United States and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The parties shall request that the arbitrator resolve the inventorship dispute in accordance with the laws of the United States within three (3) months of his or her appointment. The parties shall supply to the arbitrator documentary evidence of inventorship together with a written statement of their position not to exceed twenty (20) pages in length within twenty (20) days of the appointment of the arbitrator. Unless the parties agree to rely on affidavits, the arbitrator shall set a hearing at which each party shall have up to eight (8) hours to present witnesses and to cross examine the witnesses of the other party. If there is a hearing, each party shall provide a statement summarizing the testimony of each witness it may have testify to the other party and the arbitrator at least fifteen (15) days in advance of the hearing. The parties shall request that the arbitrator’s award be in writing not to exceed twenty (20) pages in length and shall include reasoning in support of the award. The resolution of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on the parties, without right of appeal. ***Confidential Treatment Requested

Inventorship Disputes. If the parties are unable to resolve any dispute regarding inventorship by negotiation or mediation under Section 9.1, they shall submit such dispute to binding arbitration under the C.P.R. Institute for Dispute Resolution Rules for Non-Administered Arbitration of Patent and Trade Secret Disputes. The arbitrator shall be an independent patent attorney residing in the United States and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The parties shall request that the arbitrator resolve the inventorship dispute in accordance with the laws of the United States within three (3) months of his or her appointment. The parties shall supply to the arbitrator documentary evidence of inventorship together with a written statement of their position not to exceed twenty (20) pages in length within twenty (20) days of the appointment of the arbitrator. Unless the parties agree to rely on affidavits, the arbitrator shall set a hearing at which each party shall have up to eight (8) hours to present witnesses and to cross examine the witnesses of the other party. If there is a hearing, each party shall provide a statement summarizing the testimony of each witness it may have testify to the other party and the arbitrator at least fifteen (15) days in advance of the hearing. The parties shall request that the arbitrator’s award be in writing not to exceed twenty (20) pages in length and shall include reasoning in support of the award. The resolution of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on the parties, without right of appeal. ***Confidential Treatment Requested.

Inventorship Disputes. If the parties are unable to resolve any dispute regarding inventorship by negotiation or mediation under Section 9.120.1 of this Article, they shall agree to submit such dispute to binding arbitration under the C.P.R. Institute Center for Dispute Resolution Public Resources Rules for Non-Administered Arbitration of Patent and Trade Secret Disputes. The arbitrator shall be an independent patent attorney residing in the United States and registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The parties arbitrator shall request that the arbitrator resolve the inventorship dispute in accordance with the laws of the United States within three (3) months of his or her appointment. The parties shall agree to supply to the arbitrator such documentary evidence of inventorship as they wish to rely upon together with a written statement of their position not to exceed twenty (20) pages in length within twenty (20) days of the appointment of the arbitrator. Unless the parties Parties agree to rely on affidavits, the arbitrator shall set a hearing at which each party Party shall have up to eight (8) hours to present witnesses and to cross examine the witnesses of for the other partyParty. If there is a hearing, each party Party shall provide a statement summarizing the testimony of each witness it may have testify of its witnesses to the other party Party and the arbitrator at least fifteen (15) days in advance of the hearing. The parties arbitrator's award shall request that the arbitrator’s award be in writing not to exceed twenty (20) pages in length and shall include reasoning in support of the award. The resolution of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on the partiesParties, without right of appeal. ***Confidential Treatment Requested.