With effect from 1 Jan­u­ary 2026, Robert Schneken­bühl, Part­ner at DTS, has been appoint­ed for a five-year term as Mem­ber of the arbi­tral tri­bunal and added to the list of neu­trals of the Patent Medi­a­tion and Arbi­tra­tion Cen­tre (PMAC).

The PMAC will com­mence its activ­i­ties at the begin­ning of 2026 as part of the ecosys­tem of the Uni­fied Patent Court (UPC). The Cen­tre is designed to offer con­fi­den­tial, effi­cient and high­ly spe­cialised pro­ce­dures for the alter­na­tive res­o­lu­tion of patent dis­putes. Arbi­tra­tion, in par­tic­u­lar, is gain­ing increas­ing impor­tance in tech­ni­cal­ly com­plex and eco­nom­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant patent and SEP dis­putes and rep­re­sents a flex­i­ble com­ple­ment to court litigation.

Through his appoint­ment, Robert Schneken­bühl makes his exten­sive expe­ri­ence in patent law and dis­pute res­o­lu­tion avail­able to the PMAC for a peri­od of five years and, as a mem­ber of the arbi­tral tri­bunal, will con­tribute to the fur­ther estab­lish­ment of the PMAC as an inter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised forum for patent disputes.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the Patent Medi­a­tion and Arbi­tra­tion Cen­tre (PMAC) is avail­able on the web­site of the Uni­fied Patent Court.