WIPO Arbitration Workshop - the Faculty

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.

Richard H. KREINDLER, a national of the United States of America, is a Partner of Shearman & Sterling LLP, resident in its Frankfurt office, and has specialized in international arbitration and litigation matters since 1985. He is a member of the New York and Paris Bars.

He has handled numerous commercial, construction, infrastructure and investment arbitrations throughout the world under the rules of the leading arbitration regimes and institutions as counsel, party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator, chairman and expert witness.

He has served in an editorial or advisory capacity for Arbitration International, International Arbitration Law Review, International Journal of Dispute Resolution, International Legal Materials, Arab Law Quarterly, Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Law Journal, World Arbitration and Mediation Report, Revue de Droit des Affaires Internationales, the ICC Institute of World Business Law, and the Restatement Third - The U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, among others.

Among his arbitration-related treatises are Strafrechtsrelevante und andere anstoessige Vertraege als Gegenstand von Schiedsverfahren: Zum Vorgehen von Schiedsgerichten bei Rechtsverletzungen von Vertragsparteien [Illegal and Other Objectionable Contracts as the Subject of Arbitration] (Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft), Transnational Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide, 3 Vols. (Oceana/Oxford), and Transnational Litigation: A Basic Primer (Oceana/Oxford). He has also authored over 300 other publications and presentations on international dispute resolution topics.

He is a graduate of Harvard, Munich, Columbia and Münster Universities. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Münster, Germany. He is a Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London.

He has also actively advised leading international concerns on compliance-related inquiries and government investigations of corruption worldwide; at the request of Nokia Corporation, he served in 2007 on an interim basis as Chief Compliance Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks.

David PERKINS, a national of the United Kingdom, is a partner with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, LLP and heads their Intellectual Property Practice in London. Prior to joining Milbank, he spent 31 years at Clifford Chance, 27 as a partner, where he founded and headed its Intellectual Property Practice in Europe.

His practice involves multi-jurisdiction patent and trademark litigation and related anti trust issues. He also handles Oppositions and Appeals before the European Patent Office, Munich and references to the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg.

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). 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) of the British Group of the European Union of Intellectual Property Practitioners (UNION), and of the Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation (TIPLO). He also serves 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 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.

Richard TAN, a national of the Singapore, is a senior consultant in the Singapore office of Lovells Lee & Lee and heads the office’s international arbitration practice group. Before joining the firm in September 2007, he was a senior partner at Lee & Lee, and spent 28 years with that firm. While at Lee & Lee, he headed the firm’s arbitration practice group and the intellectual property and technology department.

He is a past President of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and has served on the board of directors of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). He is also a Chartered Arbitrator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and was made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators in 1994.

He is on the panel of arbitrators of many arbitral institutions and organizations, including the SIAC, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre, the National Board of Arbitration Indonesia (BANI), the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, Singapore Law Society, Singapore Contractors Association, SIAC-Singapore Stock Exchange-Derivatives Trading and the Singapore Institute of Architects.

He is also a legal adviser to the Singapore Contractors Association and a member of the Singapore Film Commission.

He is a regular speaker at international arbitration conferences and events and has been recognized by many legal directories as a leading individual in the field of arbitration, dispute resolution and projects work.