Technology & Telecommunications

As Arbitrator

Patrick act­ed as par­ty-appoint­ed medi­a­tor and arbi­tra­tor in con­cur­rent medi­a­tion-arbi­tra­tion pro­ceed­ings in a cryp­tocur­ren­cy dis­pute between par­ties from Ger­many and Indone­sia. The dis­pute was set­tled dur­ing the medi­a­tion process.

As Counsel

Patrick has rep­re­sent­ed Asian and Euro­pean par­ties in numer­ous court and arbi­tra­tion pro­ceed­ings under var­i­ous pro­ce­dur­al and sub­stan­tive laws — both com­mon law and civ­il law — and under var­i­ous arbi­tra­tion rules, includ­ing SIAC, SCMA, Swiss Rules, DIS and UNCITRAL, in mat­ters con­cern­ing infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy, research and devel­op­ment, and com­mer­cial part­ner­ships and joint ventures.

Publications & Speaking

2021

Das neue Recht elek­tro­ni­scher Transak­tio­nen in Sin­ga­pur: Weg­be­rei­ter für elek­tro­n­is­che Kon­nosse­mente? (The New Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Law in Sin­ga­pore: Paving the Way for Elec­tron­ic Bills of Lad­ing?); in: Trans­portrecht (TranspR) 2021, p. 313 [Link]

The New Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Law in Sin­ga­pore: Paving the Way for Elec­tron­ic Bills of Lad­ing? [Link]

2019

In July 2019, Patrick was a pan­el­list at a pan­el dis­cus­sion: ‘Intro­duc­ing Libra: Facebook’s Brain­child’; The Spar­tan Group; Singapore.

2018

Ini­tial Coin Offer­ing: an Inac­cu­rate Term and an Imper­fect Reg­u­la­tor [Link]

No, I Won’t Help You White­wash Your Token Sale Scam [Link]

The Effi­cient Breach of Smart Con­tracts [Link]

In Decem­ber 2018, he par­tic­i­pat­ed in a debate: ‘This House Believes That Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence Will Have Replaced Arbi­tra­tors with­in Twen­ty-Five Years’; Sin­ga­pore Insti­tute of Arbi­tra­tors; Singapore.

In March 2018, he pre­sent­ed at the Com­pu­ta­tion­al Law & Blockchain Fes­ti­val, glob­al broad­cast (#clbfest2018); Legal Hack­ers; Singapore.

2017

How Do We Resolve Dis­putes? What’s with Those Algo­rithms? [Link]

Smar­ti­fy­ing Blockchains, Legal­ly [Link]

Blockchain: the Roll of Deeds of the Inter­net [Link]

In 2017, Patrick was a pan­el­list at a pan­el dis­cus­sion: Lawyers for Tech­ni­cal Start-Ups; Singapore.

2002

Unverbindlich verbindlich – Zur Selbst­reg­u­lier­ung durch Ver­hal­tenskodizes und Güte­siegel (Not Bind­ing­ly Bind­ing – on Self-Reg­u­la­tion by Codes of Prac­tice and Seals of Approval); in: Daten­schutz und Daten­sicher­heit 2002, p. 412

2001

Auf dem Weg zur europäis­chen Infor­ma­tion­s­ge­sellschaft – Zu Über­trag­barkeit und Pfänd­barkeit von de- und eu-Domains (Towards a Euro­pean Infor­ma­tion Soci­ety – on Trans­fer­abil­i­ty and Attach­a­bil­i­ty of de- and eu-Domains); in: Wert­pa­pi­er-Mit­teilun­gen 2001, p. 1135 (with Lwowski)