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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently vacated in part an arbitrator’s award in a dispute over a breached trademark licensing agreement, holding the arbitrator acted with manifest disregard of the law by upholding an overly restrictive covenant not to compete and acted beyond his scope of authority in issuing a permanent injunction against non-parties to the license agreement
