Disputes
of contractual nature regarding industrial property rights have been considered
arbitrable for a long time. The solution is convenient since most disputes
concerning industrial property law that are brought to arbitrators raise issues
of contractual nature. Although some difficulties still remain, particularly
due to the uncertain criteria of arbitrability, they do not have harmful
consequences. The present article invites to go beyond arbitrability issues by
analysing how, in the field of industrial property law, arbitration clauses should
be drafted and how arbitrators’ powers should be defined. In this respect,
potential tension may appear between delocalised international arbitration and
territorialized industrial property rights.