Phoenix IP Team Sends IP/Patent Case to Singapore

Several Singaporean corporations and individuals
February 14, 2005

Steptoe’s Phoenix office scored a victory for international business when the Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal under the doctrine of forum non conveniens of a suit against several Singapor­ean corporations and individuals. 

The Arizona plaintiffs alleged that the Singaporean defendants had fraudulently induced an Arizona resident to assign semiconductor related patent rights to a Singa­porean corporation. 

The court concluded that the parties’ busi­ness relationship was centered in Singapore and that the High Court of Singapore offered a satisfactory forum for resolving the intellectual property dispute and was better suited to apply Singaporean law.