MEDIATION - Resolving desagreements and disputes in high tech
Mediation has become the prefered form of resolving intellectual property disputes. IP is of fundamental importance to researchers and all producers of knowledge as well as to businesses and ventures. When disputes arrise it is common that they cross many borders and are set in a global environment. As Ambrose Bierce notes in his 1911 "Devil's Dictionary" litigation is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Other ways to resolve IP disputes are becoming much more appealing than litigation. MEDIATION is recognized as a process that brings fast, fair and in many circumstances durable solutions. Therefore I propose this forum topic.
Jose Vasconcelos