The nomination of Raymond T. Chen to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appeared on an easy path to confirmation after an April 24 hearing held by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Chen, currently the Patent and Trademark Office’s solicitor and deputy general counsel for intellectual property law, responded easily to questions about patent law and satisfied the three senators in answers to questions on judicial philosophy generally.
The two vacancies that Chen and fellow nominee Todd M. Hughes would fill were created when Judges Richard Linn (
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