A retired senior justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court and former Commercial Division Justice, Judge Crane has confronted complex intellectual property issues in litigations and appeals as a judge. Since joining JAMS in 2008, Judge Crane has had numerous occasions to mediate and arbitrate such issues.
Representative Matters
- Adjudicated action for breach of agency agreement to promote licensing of merchandise and memorabilia of major league baseball players
- Adjudicated availability of arbitration under agreement conditioned on agreement of non-signatory third-party licensor
- Adjudicated anti-trust violations of an exclusive licensing agreement following expiration of the patent for the licensed technology
- Special Master to supervise disclosure of gross receipts on which royalties are calculated for foreign licensing of rights to a certain film
- Mediated claim for damages for continuing to use without compensation certain design concepts that had been created during contract period
- Mediated disputes over exploitation of trademark and relative rights of the disputing parties to compensation
- Arbitrated, in lieu of an adversary proceeding in the bankruptcy court, creditor’s claim of damages caused by failure of certain motors manufactured by the bankrupt; required ruling on the technical reason for the failures and whether that reason was attributable to the claimant
- Mediated dispute over software license agreement for program providing platform for foreign currency trading
- Mediated claims for breach of a consulting agreement involving the development of software programs for the banking industry, misappropriation of trade secrets and intellectual property and damage to existing relationships
- Arbitrated dispute over copyright to law firm website at expiration of partnership
- Arbitrated claim of licensee of a medical product to damages for violation of exclusivity and for wrongful termination
- Arbitrated claim of artist of site-specific installation art to prohibit its alleged destruction by owner’s plan to remove or relocate it
- Arbitrated claim to proceeds of contingent promissory notes, pegged to sale of drug, invented by claimant, issued upon sale of his corporation
- Arbitrated claims to royalties allegedly underpaid on licensed products that were incorporated into an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity military contract and to accounting costs of the royalty inspection
- Mediated claim for damage to works of art while on loan to a museum for exhibition
- Mediated claims of breach of a non-compete agreement and wrongful termination under a contract hiring the seller of a business dealing in orthopedic devices
- Mediated claims of investor against corporation to which he assigned patents for refusing to renew his consulting agreement
- Mediated claim of patent holder against licensee that had ceased using the product for failure to remit payments under a right-to-use license
- Mediated claim of prominent music group to damages for copying portions of composition
