WIPO Arbitration Workshop - Profiles

Thierry CALAME, a national of Switzerland, is a partner with Lenz & Staehelin in Zurich, where he heads the intellectual property department. He has vast experience as counsel in patent, trademark, unfair competition and copyright litigation as well as IP and technology related arbitration, notably under ICC Rules and Swiss Rules. In addition, Thierry Calame advises on licensing, the intellectual property aspects of a wide range of other transactions as well as pharmaceutical law, including regulatory and advertising issues. He holds both a masters degree in chemistry and law.

Thierry Calame is permanent lecturer at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and has published on a wide range of intellectual property topics. He serves on the board of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and is member of several other professional bodies, including International Trademark Association (INTA), Licensing Executive Society (LES), International Bar Association (IBA), Swiss Bar Association (SAV), Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW), Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR), Institut für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (INGRES), SF Schweizer Forum für Kommunikationsrecht.

Trevor COOK, a national of the United Kingdom, is a partner with Bird & Bird in London. He is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Cook is a solicitor and holds a degree in chemistry from the University of Southampton.

Mr. Cook has extensive experience in multi-jurisdiction patent litigation. He is on the WIPO List of Arbitrators and has acted as counsel and arbitrator in various arbitration cases. He has recently acted as arbitrator in a complex international WIPO patent arbitration.

Mr. Cook is the President of the UK Group of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), Secretary to the British Copyright Council Standing Committee on Copyright and Technology, and a member of the Council of the Intellectual Property Institute.

Mr. Cook has authored several books and articles especially on patent issues, in particular The Protection of Regulatory Data in the Pharmaceutical and Other Sectors (Sweet & Maxwell 2000) and A User’s Guide to Patents (Butterworths 2002, Tottel - 2006) and Pharmaceuticals Biotechnology and the Law (Macmillan 1991, LexisNexis Butterworths 2009).

M. Scott DONAHEY, a national of the United States of America based in Palo Alto, California, arbitrates and mediates disputes both nationally and internationally, having sat as an arbitrator in more than 200 cases. He has acted as arbitrator in arbitrations involving a genomic database joint development contract, a coronary stent patent, multiple patents involving a nanolens capable of directly reading the individual bases of DNA, a software distribution agreement in China, a patent for a balloon catheter, a patent for a total artificial knee implant, and Japanese patents on pharmaceutical products, among others. Mr. Donahey has acted as counsel in arbitrations involving a license for a monoclonal antibody assay patent, a contact lens chemical composition patent, and an automated sera analyzer, among others. He has decided more than 200 domain name cases, applying principles of trademark law in the analyses. He is on the panels of the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), the CPR Institute Technology Panel, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, the American Arbitration Association IP/Technology, Patent, and Trademark Panels, and many other national and regional panels around the world. He is on numerous domain name panels, including those of the WIPO, the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and the China Internet Network Information Center, and he has served as an expert witness on issues concerning domain names in the federal district court of the United States.

In 1999, Mr. Donahey received the President’s Award for Outstanding Service in ADR from the National Patent Council. He has been voted by his peers as a SuperLawyer in the field of ADR in every year that the award has been given. Mr. Donahey is a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators.

David PERKINS, a national of the United Kingdom, is a partner in Arnold & Porter (UK), LLP’s intellectual property practice in London. Prior to joining the firm, he served in major leadership positions in the intellectual property practice area at international law firms. He was a partner at Clifford Chance from 1975 to 2003 in which he headed its European intellectual property litigation practice and subsequently at Milbank Tweed’s London office from 2003 to 2009.

Mr. Perkins concentrates his practice on multijurisdictional patent litigation, as well as trademark and antitrust issues. He also handles oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office in Munich and references to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg. He also acts as counsel and arbitrator in numerous arbitrations involving intellectual property rights.

Mr. Perkins is also an Arbitrator and Mediator for the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service. He has had significant involvement in advising in relation to both mediation and arbitration of multi-jurisdictional disputes involving intellectual property rights.

Mr. Perkins is a member of several professional bodies including the Law Society, the International Bar Association (IBA), and the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA), the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) and an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (CIPA). He is a foreign member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). He is a Council Member of the Intellectual Property Institute (IPI), and of the Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation (TIPLO), of which he is also a founding member. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Union of Intellectual Property Practitioners (UNION) and a Council Member of the British Group of UNION. He also served as a member of the UK Government's Intellectual Property Advisory Committee (IPAC).

Mr. Perkins has written over 50 publications. He studied Law at Newcastle University.

Lucy F. REED, a national of the United States of America, is a Partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP in New York. She is co-head of the Freshfields Global International Arbitration Group.

A specialist in international commercial arbitration, Ms. Reed advises private and public clients and serves as arbitrator in arbitrations under the major institutional and ad hoc rules. She is also an arbitrator on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, and served as a co-director of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland. She has written and lectured extensively on international arbitration, and is a co-author of The Freshfields Guide to Arbitration and ADR: Clauses in International Contracts, and Guide to ICSID Arbitration (both published by Kluwer).

She was the first general counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization. She was with the US State Department as the US agent to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, and Deputy Assistant Legal Adviser for International Claims and Investment Disputes.

Ms. Reed is Chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, inmediate past President of the American Society of International Law, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ms. Reed received her BA from Brown University in 1974 and her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1977, where she was a member of the Law Review.

Her recent experience includes representing: ConocoPhillips in its ICSID case against the Government of Venezuela; the Government of Turkey in three Energy Charter Treaty cases; an Asian government entity in ICC arbitrations involving a disputed share purchase agreement; a US energy company in LCIA arbitrations based on political risk insurance claims; CMS Energy in the first ICSID arbitration against Argentina to succeed on the merits and jurisdiction; and Japanese companies in arbitrations of licensing disputes.