September 03, 2020
Aluminum giant Alcoa must arbitrate its patent dispute with Anheuser-Busch InBev relating to a type of lightweight aluminum used in the brewer's bottles, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the right to arbitrate the dispute had been extinguished by a later agreement.
August 20, 2020
An attorney for Alcoa Corp. told a New York federal judge on Thursday that he must decide whether the aluminum giant's patent dispute over a type of Anheuser-Busch InBev bottle belongs in arbitration, saying the current iteration of Alcoa never signed an underlying arbitration pact.
July 02, 2020
Aluminum giant Alcoa is urging a New York federal court not to force it to arbitrate a patent dispute relating to a type of aluminum used in Anheuser-Busch InBev bottles, arguing that the brewer is targeting the wrong company due to a 2016 corporate restructuring.
June 11, 2020
Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev and others have told a New York federal court that aluminum producer Alcoa can't get out of arbitrating claims that it violated a manufacturing contract when it secured patents on a type of aluminum that AB InBev found would improve productivity for a lightweight and reclosable aluminum bottle.