Arbitration of Intellectual Property Disputes in the United States

David Evans is co-chair of the litigation department at Murphy & King, Professional Corporation, in Boston, Massachusetts. He represents large public corporations, closely held companies and individuals in the resolution of complex business disputes. Mr. Evans also maintains an active practice as a certified neutral arbitrator and mediator, serving in more than 350 cases. As a neutral, he has presided over a broad range of business disputes involving areas such as intellectual property rights and licenses, finance and accounting, technology development and transfer agreements, stock/asset purchases, energy, biotechnology, medical devices, real estate, private investment firms, and business separations. Mr. Evans is a member of numerous arbitration and mediation panels,  has been selected as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in Business Litigation in every year the award has been offered (2006-2018), named a top-rated lawyer in ADR law by The American Lawyer and is recognized with an AV Preeminent Peer Rating from Martingdale-Hubbell. He  serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association, and as the co-chair of the Large Case Committee of its Council. For his contributions to the AAA, Mr. Evans received its Outstanding Director Award in 2014.

Theodore J. Folkman is a shareholder of Murphy & King, P.C., in Boston, where he has a complex civil litigation and commercial arbitration practice. He is a member of the commercial and consumer arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association and has recognized expertise in international judicial assistance and other areas in private international law. Prior to joining Murphy & King, he was an associate with Hill & Barlow, PC, in Boston, and judicial law clerk to the Hon. Ann Aldrich, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio. Mr. Folkman speaks frequently at law schools and bar events on topics of private international law and is the author of several works in the area, including International Judicial Assistance (MCLE, 2d ed. 2016) the chapter on service of process in International Aspects of Litigation: A Practitioner’s Deskbook (ABA 2017), and the chapter on choice of law in The Arbitration of International Intellectual Property Disputes (Juris 2012).  Mr. Folkman is a member of the Amicus Committee and former chairman of the Massachusetts Practice and Procedure Committee of the Boston Bar Association, from which he received the President’s Award in 2016. He holds a law degree from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in political science from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University.

Thomas D. Halket is an attorney practicing in New York.  He divides his time between his corporate and commercial technology law practice, and his arbitration and mediation work both as counsel and neutral and law school teaching. He is a Partner at Halket Weitz LLP and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Fordham University School of Law where he teaches courses on International Arbitration, on Licensing and Intellectual Property Transactions, on Commercial Technology and on Entrepreneurship Law. Prior to forming Halket Weitz, he was the Partner in charge of the Commercial Technology Practice in the New York Office of Bingham McCutchen LLP. A Chartered Arbitrator, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, Mr. Halket has been an arbitrator and mediator for over 30 years. He is a member of arbitral panels around the world. He has served as an arbitrator for the International Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the London Court of International Arbitration. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators in London, a member of the USCIB Arbitration Committee and member of the International Arbitration Club of New York. He is the Deputy President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Chair of its New York Branch and has been elected to serve as the Chartered Institute’s 2019 President. He was the Chairman of the Technology Advisory Committee of the American Arbitration Association and is a member of the Scottish Arbitration Centre’s Arbitral Appointments Committee.  
Mr. Halket holds a law degree from the Columbia University School of Law and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


 

Reviews coming soon...