AIPLA List of Arbitrators and Mediators
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This LIST identifies AIPLA members in good standing who are willing to serve as an arbitrator, mediator, or early neutral evaluator for disputes involving intellectual property.
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Larry Nixon
Arlington, VA
Arbitration/Mediation of patent disputes. Over the last 50 years I have participated in well over 200 US patent litigations. In about 100 of those I participated as an advocate on behalf of a patent owner or an alleged patent infringer. In over 100 of those I participated as an expert witness concerning USPTO practice and procedure and other aspects of US patent law. I have also sometimes served as an arbitrator (sometimes alone and sometimes as one of a panel of three) in patent disputes. And I ...
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Roger Parkhurst
Alexandria, VA
Arbitration and Mediation of patent, trade secret, and trademark/trade dress disputes. I have litigated or otherwise been involved in many disputes involving a wide variety of technologies. (See my Application for this LIST, point 8.e., and my Resume.) Many of those disputes were settled via arbitration or mediation, and in some disputes I acted as an arbitrator or mediator. I am certified in mediation by the Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation.
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Michael Powell
Atlanta, GA
Mediation of patent, trade secret, trademark/trade dress, and copyright disputes. Mediation of patent, trade secret, trademark/trade dress, and copyright disputes.Mike Powell is a seasoned mediator focused exclusively on cases involving patent, trademark, trade dress, copyright, trade secret, antitrust, unfair competition, false advertising, fraud, misappropriation, licensing, software, technology and related issues. Mr. Powell respectfully guides parties and counsel toward understanding realist ...
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Randall Rader
Springfield, VA
Arbitration/Mediation of patent, trade secret, and trademark/trade dress. RANDALL R. RADER, former Chief Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal , Circuit Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2010-2014),Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1990-2010), Federal Trial Judge, United States Claims Court (later Court of Federal Claims) (1988-1990),Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittees (1980-1988), Counsel, House ...
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Gary Ropski
Chicago, IL
Mediation of patent, trademark/trade dress, copyright and trade secret disputes. During his career of over 40 years Gary handled more than 125 IP cases in every federal judicial circuit, including jury trials, controversies before the USPTO, and appeals at the Federal Circuit among others. He has been involved in dozens of mediations as a trial lawyer, mediator, and arbitrator. Clients and colleagues have described Gary as a "top-drawer" litigator, “a class act,” “overflowing with common sense,” ...
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Suzanne Segal
Los Angeles, CA
I served for 18 years as a Magistrate Judge in the Central District of California, where I presided over hundreds of motions and trials involving patent, trade secret, trademark/trade dress and copyright issues. I also served as the President and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Judge Paul R. Michel IP Inn of Court for many years and am actively involed in the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Assocation. Currently, I serve as an Arbitrator, Mediator, Special Master and Discovery Re ...
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Neil Smith
San Francisco, CA
Arbitration/Mediation of patent, trade secret, trademark/trade dress, and copyright disputes. Neil Smith is an experienced dispute analyzer and resolver, available for mediation, arbitration, private judging, discovery and special master service, and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution, in patent and other intellectual property and technology cases. Mr. Smith served as the first Administrative Patent Law Judge on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for the new Silicon Valley office of th ...
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Allen Sokal
Potomac, MD
Arbitration of patent, trade secret, and trademark/trade dress disputes. I have more than half a century of intellectual property law experience, mostly in private practice litigating patents at the trial and appellate levels. I also served as a patent examiner for 5 years and clerked at the CCPA. My trial work has been primarily in chemical and pharmaceutical cases, while my appellate work has run the gamut of technologies. I have briefed and argued numerous cases before the Federal Circuit, an ...
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J. Peter Staples
Portland, OR
Arbitration/Mediation of patent, trade secret, trademark/trade dress, and copyright disputes. Arbitration and mediation limited to Intellectual Property matters. Mr. Staples has mediated disputes in patent, trademark/trade dress, and copyright matters. He served as the chief arbitrator of a three-member panel in a complex trademark case handling discovery disputes and pretrial matters, and presiding over a lengthy hearing with multiple lay witnesses and several expert witnesses. He has served as ...
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Kent Stevens
Chicago, IL
Mediation of patent, trade secret, trademark/trade dress, copyright disputes. More than thirty years of experience litigating IP cases for the Federal Government, AM100 firms and IP boutiques. 2018/19 mediations included parties from North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East; 2018/19 mediations included five Fortune 100 and seven Fortune Global 500 companies as parties and twelve Am100 law firms as lead counsel. Mediations addressed multi-district litigation before the U.S. ...