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Arthur Yuan
Director, Chinese IP Resource Center
Director, Patent Clinic
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Phone: 312.994.1106
Email: ayuan@jmls.edu
BS, University of Houston
JD, The John Marshall Law School
Scholarship | SSRN Publications | Presentations
Arthur Tan-Chi Yuan is the director of the Chinese Intellectual Property Resource Center and handles all aspects of Center’s activities, including but not limited to, administering educational programs relating to U.S. and Chinese intellectual property rights, developing educational programs relating to U.S. and Chinese intellectual property rights, coordinating short-term training programs between The John Marshall Law School and State Intellectual Property Office and All-China Patent Attorneys Association, and managing the China IP summer program in cooperation with Peking University, Beijing.
Arthur Tan-Chi Yuan is also an adjunct professor and the director for the Patent Clinic. He brings years of patent preparation and prosecution experiences after six years with intellectual property law firm Senniger Powers, LLP, in St. Louis, Missouri. During his six years at Senniger, he prepared and prosecuted the firm's U.S. clients' patent applications and prosecuted the corresponding foreign (EP, CN, NZ, AU, IL, etc.) patent applications relating to electronics, computer systems, software systems, and business methods, including media processing, telecommunication systems, search engines, database structures, operating systems, business management applications, data security and electronic medical devices, mobile devices, online social networks, and web mash-up programming. He authored patentability opinions and non-infringement/freedom-to-operate opinions, advised U.S. clients on Chinese patent law issues, advised Chinese/Taiwanese clients on U.S. IP laws, patent infringement litigation before the U.S. District Court, ITC proceedings, re-examination proceeding before the USPTO, and practiced appeals before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
Yuan teaches a variety of practical patent courses at the John Marshall, including Intellectual Property Survey (patent portion), Patent Attorney Opinions, Patent Planning and Practice, and Advanced Patent Clinic. He was also a co-coach of John Marshall's 2011 Giles Rich Appellate Moot Court Team. His research focuses on a wide range of IP topics, including US patent law, patent preparation/prosecution and American and Chinese comparative IP laws.
Scholarship
Exploring Apple's iPad Trademark Blunder: Chinese Trademark Approval Procedure Is A Trademark Protection Safeguard Or Another National Protectionism?, 11 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 777 (2012)
Amendments to Titles of the United States Code by Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (2011)
Translating China's Struggle with IP, Unbound Edition (2008)
Presentations
Speaker: "What Does AIA Mean to Chinese Businesses," Kangxin Partners P.C., Beijing, China (June 26, 2012)
Speaker: "Update on U.S. Patent Practices," Lung Tin International Intellectual Property Agent, Ltd., Beijing, China (June 25, 2012)
Presenter: "Hot Issues in Sino-U.S. Intellectual Property Laws," Renmin University International College, Suzhou, China (June 15, 2012)
Presenter: "Hot Issues in Sino-U.S. Intellectual Property Laws," Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China (June 15, 2012)
Speaker: "U.S. Patent Practices," Sunshine Intellectual Property International Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China (June 5-7, 2012)
Speaker: Mysipo Forum, "U.S. Patent Practice and Patent Exchange," Beijing, China (June 3, 2012)
Presenter: "What Do Chinese IP Professionals Need to Know About the New American Patent Law," King & Wood Mallesons, Shanghai, China (April 17, 2012)
Presenter: "What Do Chinese IP Professionals Need to Know About the New American Patent Law," China Intellectual Property Training Center, Beijing, China (April 11, 2012)
Presenter: "What Do Chinese IP Professionals Need to Know About the New American Patent Law," Patent Examination Cooperation Center, SIPO, Beijing, China (April 9, 2012)
Speaker: "Basics of U.S. Patent Law," PC-Associates, Beijing, China (June 24, 2011)
Speaker: "U.S. Patent Practice," CCPIT Patent and Trademark Office, Beijing, China (June 22, 2011)
Speaker: "U.S. Patent Practice," Lung Tin International Intellectual Property Agent, Ltd., Beijing, China (June 21, 2011)
