Cybersettle, Inc., developer of an online dispute resolution system, today applauded an appeals court ruling that president and CEO Charles Brofman says "upheld the validity and application of a key Cybersettle patent."

In the case of Cybersettle, Inc., vs. National Arbitration Forum, Inc., the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld Cybersettle's patent and directed that National Arbitration Forum submit to further proceedings in the District Court on the issue of its infringement.

In November 2006, Cybersettle won a patent infringement case it filed against National Arbitration Forum, a Minnesota-based company that had been hired to administer New Jersey's no-fault automobile insurance personal injury protection. The New Jersey Federal District Court ruled two versions of NAF's online dispute resolution system in New Jersey were in direct violation of Cybersettle's patent that covers, among other things, an automated, online, double-blind dispute-resolution system capable of multiple rounds of bidding.

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