Glidden

INTRODUCTION

Defendant NanoSmart Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NanoSmart), appeals from the judgment entered after the trial court granted plaintiff Paul F. Glidden’s petition to confirm the arbitration award (the petition to confirm). The arbitration concerned Glidden’s and NanoSmart’s employment- and intellectual property-related claims against each other. NanoSmart opposed the petition to confirm on the grounds the petition was prematurely filed and was filed in the wrong trial court. NanoSmart argued that Glidden should have filed his petition in a new superior court action instead of filing it in the same case in which the prearbitration motions had been filed and resolved. In addition to arguments asserted in its opposition to the petition to confirm, in this appeal, NanoSmart raises substantive challenges to the arbitration award itself. We affirm. The petition to confirm was timely filed 12 days after service of the arbitration award, in compliance with Code of Civil Procedure sections 1288 and 1288.4. (All further statutory references are to the Code of Civil Procedure unless otherwise specified.) NanoSmart argues that its request to modify the award submitted to the arbitrator…