Industry: Technology

China’s Lenovo and Sweden’s Ericsson have agreed to drop litigation over licensing of cellular patents in various countries and resolve their remaining disputes through arbitration. 

04 April 2025

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has published a controversial award that saw US gymnast Jordan Chiles stripped of her Olympics bronze medal and caused a fierce media backlash against the institution and issuing tribunal – as the US team alleges that CAS did not provide it with conflict-of-interest disclosures made by chair Hamid Gharavi.

15 August 2024

An embattled Indian tech startup has asked an Indian authority to refer a dispute with its investors over a US$200 million rights issue to SIAC arbitration. 

05 April 2024

The Indian Supreme Court has affirmed that non-signatories can be bound by arbitration clauses under the ‘group of companies’ doctrine – but only when several factors indicate their implied consent.  

11 December 2023

Martin Magal, Alexander Calthrop and Katrina Limond of Allen & Overy examine how artificial intelligence will change the way in which parties gather, analyse, and present evidence in international arbitration – concluding that while the technology will not replace lawyers, practitioners who use AI may well replace those who do not. 

11 October 2023

An Indian authority has issued an interim injunction to prevent a Mauritian private equity fund from pursuing a Singapore-seated ICC arbitration against the founder of an online matchmaking service – months after the Singapore courts affirmed the dispute was arbitrable.

18 September 2023

London-headquartered firm Osborne Clarke is launching an office in Miami managed by newly hired partner Javier Fernández-Samaniego, a Spanish arbitrator and IT disputes specialist who formerly led Bird & Bird’s Madrid office.

15 September 2023

An Israel-based fintech group facing allegations of a US$4 billion fraud has filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware, thwarting an insurance broker’s bid for injunctive relief in aid of a threatened arbitration in Bermuda.

21 August 2023

A Taiwan-based manufacturer of flash memory controllers has said it will bring a SIAC claim against a US chipmaker for pulling out of a US$3.8 billion merger.

16 August 2023

Canadian software company Blackberry is facing a JAMS arbitration over a collapsed US$600 million deal to sell most of its patent portfolio.

14 June 2023