The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that the word “may” in an arbitration clause does not make arbitration optional. Justice Deepak Khot ruled that parties’ intention must be examined from the agreement as a whole, allowing appointment of an arbitrator under Section 11(6).
The Supreme Court clarified that even an unsigned contract containing an arbitration clause can be binding if the parties have accepted and acted upon its terms, stressing that conduct and intention matter more than the absence of signatures.
NEW DELHI: OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has argued in the Delhi High Court that Indian courts do not have the authority to hear the copyright infringement case filed by Asian News International (ANI).
