Judy He
Overview
Judy is a patent litigator who helps clients solve complex legal disputes involving intellectual property, trade secret and licensing issues. She represents small and large companies across various industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, agricultural, and vaping, from pre-suit to post-trial/appeal before federal courts. Judy primarily focuses on district court litigation and has experience with representing clients in mediations, arbitrations, preliminary injunction hearings, post-grant proceedings, and ITC investigations.
Career & Education
- Department of Homeland Security
Extern, Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2016
- Department of Homeland Security
- PILI Fellow at the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, 2017
- Managing Editor of Iowa Law Review, Volume 102, 2016–2017
- Judicial Intern to the Honorable Linnea E. Thompson in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, 2015
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing I and II, 2022-2024
- University of Iowa, B.A., With Honors, Chemistry, 2014
- University of Iowa, B.B.A., With Honors, Finance, 2014
- University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 2017
- Illinois
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC)
- Board Member (2024–2025)
- Board Member and Sponsorship Chair (2023–2024)
- Board Member and Programming Chair (2022–2023)
- Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
- Vice Chair of U.S. Patent and Litigation Committee (2024)
- Secretary of Patent Litigation & Remedies Committee (2023)
- Red Shoe Society Chicago (RSS)
- Chair of Communications Committee (2024)
- Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI), Young Professionals Board
- Immediate Chair (2023–2024)
- Chair (2022–2023)
- Chair–Elect (2021–2022)
- Vice Chair and Membership Chair (2020–2021)
- Chicago Women in IP (ChiWIP)
- DEI Steering Group (2023 to 2025)
- Member of Annual Events Committee (2024-2025)
- Co–Chair of Community Involvement Committee (2023–2024)
- Women In Bio (WIB)
- National Membership Chair (2021–2023)
- National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)
- Associate Leadership Board Member (2023–Present)
- ABA Section of Litigation Judicial Intern Opportunity Program (JIOP)
- Regional Co-Chair – Illinois (2024 to Present)
- Illinois Working Group Member (2021–2024)
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD)
- Class Liaison for 2022 Pathfinders (2022–Present)
- Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC)
- Mandarin
Judy's Insights
Firm News | 1 min read | 06.03.24
The American Bar Association Names Judy He to 2024 “On the Rise” List
Judy He, a Chicago-based counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Patents Group, has been named to the American Bar Association’s 2024 “On the Rise” list. The awards honor young ABA members “who exemplify a broad range of high achievement, innovation, vision, leadership, and legal and community service.”
Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.18.24
Client Alert | 5 min read | 03.05.24
A Winning Streak? IRA’s Drug Price Negotiation Program Survives Again
Recognition
- Super Lawyers, Illinois Rising Star for Intellectual Property Litigation, 2023
- NITA: Master Advocate, 2022; Advocate, 2018
- ABA Free Legal Answers: Pro Bono Leader, 2021 and 2022
- National Immigrant Justice Center: Rising Star, 2021
- ABA-Bloomberg BNA: Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law, 2017
- Boyd Service Award, Highest Honors, 2017
- American Bar Association, On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers, 2024
Judy's Insights
Firm News | 1 min read | 06.03.24
The American Bar Association Names Judy He to 2024 “On the Rise” List
Judy He, a Chicago-based counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Patents Group, has been named to the American Bar Association’s 2024 “On the Rise” list. The awards honor young ABA members “who exemplify a broad range of high achievement, innovation, vision, leadership, and legal and community service.”
Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.18.24
Client Alert | 5 min read | 03.05.24
A Winning Streak? IRA’s Drug Price Negotiation Program Survives Again
Insights
Analysing ‘Takings Clause’ challenges to PTAB reviews, World IP Review
|05.04.21
Filing Considerations For PTAB Petitions On Biologic Patents Relating To COVID-19, Life Sciences Leader
|03.01.21
Timing Precedential Patent Decisions at the Federal Circuit
|12.18.18
"Reconsidering Parodies in the Eighth Circuit," Iowa Law Review
|05.06.16
"Intellectual Property Profession,” ADAPT.legal
|01.18.24
Practices
Judy's Insights
Firm News | 1 min read | 06.03.24
The American Bar Association Names Judy He to 2024 “On the Rise” List
Judy He, a Chicago-based counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Patents Group, has been named to the American Bar Association’s 2024 “On the Rise” list. The awards honor young ABA members “who exemplify a broad range of high achievement, innovation, vision, leadership, and legal and community service.”
Client Alert | 4 min read | 04.18.24
Client Alert | 5 min read | 03.05.24
A Winning Streak? IRA’s Drug Price Negotiation Program Survives Again
