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Alternative Dispute Resolution Experience

Since 1977 Mr. Wernick has been involved in alternative dispute resolution, including serving as an arbitrator (sole arbitrator and as chair of arbitration panels), and serving as a mediator in both private ADR settings and for the U.S. Federal Courts.  Experience includes both arbitration and mediation cases involving major computer user and vendor disputes, licensing disputes, intellectual property disputes, and/or domain name disputes.  Representative matters as arbitrator include:

§    Software performance dispute between a national financial institution and a software vendor regarding alleged system performance failures. 

§    Computer outsourcing services agreement dispute between a major steel manufacturer and an outsourcing services provider concerning interpretation of pricing provisions. 

§    Contract dispute between a software integrator and an international manufacturer over an alleged failed integrated system installation. 

§    Claims arising out of alleged breach of license agreement between a major telecommunications company and an intellectual property licensor. 

§    Contract dispute between a national collection agency and a software provider including claims of performance failures and trade secrets disputes. 

§    Disputes between licensor and licensee over alleged infringement of intellectual property rights and breach of license agreement. 

§    Dispute between Internet based travel site and software developer including allegations of breach of warranties and performance failures. 

§    Contract dispute between a web hosting service and an online business involving alleged lost profits and other contract damages alleged to have occurred as a result of a migration of a web site from one host system to another.

§    Dispute between insurance company licensee and software developer licensor concerning interpretation of scope of use provisions in license agreement. 

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