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Revision of the WIPO Arbitration Rules: Adapting to an Increasingly Remote Setting In Technology Disputes

On July 1, 2021 the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) revised its Arbitration Rules (2021 WIPO Rules). The amendments include a possibility for the parties to conduct remote hearings, an obligation to disclose third-party-funder agreements and a decrease in costs in arbitration proceedings. As elaborated below, the 2021 WIPO Rules have been adapted to reflect modern trends of dispute resolution in an increasingly remote environment. This post provides an overview of the WIPO, discusses these revisions to its Rules, and suggests areas where perhaps the WIPO could have gone further in its revisions to its Rules.