It mentioned that the first phase of the arbitration process issued an order that stated that Qualcomm did not breach its license agreement with Panasonic.

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Signatories to UNCLOS are obliged to go through an arbitration process in the event of a dispute with another party and to accept the resulting settlement, UNCLOS says on its website.

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Most notably, a Supreme Court ruling last year strengthened companies' ability to use mandatory arbitration, a dispute-resolution process designed to keep consumer cases out of court.

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