Henry Y. Huang

Partner, Silicon Valley

Biography

Overview

Henry Y. Huang is a partner in White & Case's Silicon Valley office and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice. His practice focuses on patents and trade secrets. Henry has experience with all aspects of federal litigation, including initial assessment of claims and defenses, motions practice, electronic discovery, claim construction and Markman hearings in patent cases, taking and defending depositions, and oral argument at hearings before district courts and the PTAB. He has litigated post-grant proceedings at the PTAB, multiple appeals to the Federal Circuit, and trade dress and trade secret claims.

Henry clerked for the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Judge Richard Linn) from 2009 to 2010, and for the US District Court for the Northern District of California (Judge Lucy Koh) in 2014. Prior to law school, Henry worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, performing experiments in organic and environmental chemistry.

Bars and Courts
California State Bar
District of Columbia Bar
US District Court for the Northern District of California
US District Court for the Central District of California
US District Court for the Western District of Texas
US District Court for the Federal Circuit
Education
JD
Stanford Law School

with Distinction

AB
History and Science, Emphasis in Chemistry
Harvard University

magna cum laude

Languages
English

Experience

US Medical Device Company v. Cytek (N.D. Cal.): Represented plaintiff in trade secret and breach of contract case involving flow cytometers.*

Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. v. CalPERS (Cal.): Represented pharmaceutical company in public records disclosure action related to drug pricing information.*

CPI Card Group, Inc. v. Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc. (D. Colo.): Represented defendant in patent litigation involving secure card packages.*

Koios Pharmaceuticals v. Medac (PTAB): Represented patent owner in IPR proceeding relating to injectable methotrexate.*

CollabRx, Inc. v. The Jackson Laboratory (N.D. Cal.): Represented defendant in trade secret litigation involving cancer databases.*

Leggett & Platt, Inc. v. Dreamwell, Ltd. (PTAB): Successfully defended patent owner against two IPR petitions by obtaining non-institution decisions on patents directed to micro-alloyed mattress springs.*

Unified Messaging Solutions v. BB&T Corp. (N.D. Ill.): Represented BB&T in patent infringement litigation involving online messaging, including MDL proceedings.*

Maxim Integrated Products v. BB&T Corp. (E.D.N.C., E.D. Tex., W.D. Pa.): Represented BB&T in patent infringement litigation involving mobile banking applications, including MDL proceedings.*

Infinity Computer Products v. Ricoh Americas Corp. (E.D. Pa.): Represented Ricoh in patent infringement litigation involving multifunction printers, including co-pending ex parte reexaminations.*

Smart Memory Solutions LLC v. Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited et al. (D. Del.) 1:11-cv-00680-LPS: Represented Fujitsu Semiconductor America and Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited in patent infringement litigation involving flash memory technology.*

* Experience prior to joining White & Case

Publications

Co-author, "USITC: A Powerful Forum for Biologics Patent Owners," Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review (October 10, 2018)

Co-author, "Supreme Court Holds That Patent Exhaustion Applies to All Sales, Domestic and International, Regardless of Post-Sale Restrictions," IP Litigator (July-August 2017)

Quoted, "Think You Own Your Printer Cartridge? Think Again," National Public Radio's Marketplace (March 27, 2017)

Co-author, "Patent Litigation Issues to Watch in 2017," Bloomberg BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal (December 28, 2016)

Co-author, "2013 Year-in-Review: Important US Patent Law Developments," Bloomberg BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal (January 31, 2014)

Co-author, "2012 Year-in-Review: Important US Patent Law Developments," Bloomberg BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal (January 4, 2013)