Sherman Kahn

Personal Bio

Job Title: Attorney, Arbitrator, Mediator

Areas of Expertise: Arbitration,Mediation

Sherman Kahn has sat as panel chair, sole arbitrator, and wing arbitrator in dozens of international and domestic arbitrations with subject matter including IT outsourcing, software development, mining, blockchain, patent infringement and other IP issues, as well as trademark licensing, unfair competition and trade disparagement, and commercial issues. Sherman provides advice regarding clause drafting and pre-dispute issues in connection with major construction and infrastructure projects.

He is a member of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Panel of Arbitrators, the American Arbitration Association Roster of Commercial Arbitrators, the CPR Distinguished Panel of Neutrals and the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) International Panel of Arbitrators. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and a member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center Tech List. Sherman also acts as a mediator and is a member of the Southern District of New York and New York Supreme Court Commercial Division, mediation panels.

Sherman has twenty-five-plus years of experience in patent litigation. He has litigated patent matters involving technologies such as programmable logic devices, microprocessors and controllers, memory devices, construction equipment, medical devices, supercomputers, LCD & PDP display devices, LED Lighting, various computer software products, and networking technologies as well as biotechnology inventions. Sherman also litigates IT outsourcing, trade secret, trademark, copyright, and antitrust matters. Sherman advises clients regarding information security and privacy issues for compliance and in privacy-related regulatory proceedings and litigation. Sherman represents clients in FTC and state attorney general investigations of privacy, information security and advertising practices.