Ian Swan

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Ramya Auroprem |Ian Swan |Don Wang |Brian Johnson

On Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued aprecedential opinion in Wuhan Healthgen Biotech. Corp. v. U.S.Int'l Trade Comm'n, No. 23-1389, 2025 WL 420819 (Fed. Cir. 2025). Thethree-judge panel, consisting of Chief Judge Moore, Judge Chen, andDistrict Judge John F. Murphy of the Eastern District ofPennsylvania sitting by designation, affirmed the Commission'sopinion as to infringement and whether domestic industry had beensatisfied.

2 months ago | jdsupra.com | Ramya Auroprem |Brian Johnson |Ian Swan

On Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in Wuhan Healthgen Biotech. Corp. v. U.S. Int’l Trade Comm’n, No. 23-1389, 2025 WL 420819(Fed. Cir. 2025). The three-judge panel, consisting of Chief Judge Moore, Judge Chen, and District Judge John F. Murphy of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sitting by designation, affirmed the Commission’s opinion as to infringement and whether domestic industry had been satisfied.

Jan 23, 2025 | mondaq.com | Ramya Auroprem |Ian Swan |Don Wang |Brian Johnson

This is an update to our 2024 USITC Commissioner Series. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, and part five here. On Thursday, January 16, 2025, the U.S. International TradeCommission (ITC) announced that Commissioner Rhonda K. Schmidtlein will step down on February 1, 2025. CommissionerSchmidtlein was sworn in on April 28, 2014 and served as Chair ofthe Commission from January 2017 to June 2018.

Jan 20, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Ramya Auroprem |Brian Johnson |Ian Swan

This is an update to our 2024 USITC Commissioner Series. Read part one here, part two here, part three here, part four here, and part five here. On Thursday, January 16, 2025, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) announced that Commissioner Rhonda K. Schmidtlein will step down on February 1, 2025. Commissioner Schmidtlein was sworn in on April 28, 2014 and served as Chair of the Commission from January 2017 to June 2018.

Jun 18, 2024 | mondaq.com | Ian Swan

In its recent en banc decision issued in LQK v. GM Global, the Federal Circuit overruled the Rosen-Durling  test for design patent obviousness,1  jettisoning decades-old precedent and loosely outlining a design patent obviousness test that aligns with the standard for utility patents. In doing so, the court has lowered the bar for design patent obviousness and opened the door for more prior art rejections by the USPTO.