By Kevin E. Noonan — Last week, the Federal Circuit affirmed imposition of an exclusion order under 19 U.S.C. § 1337 (Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930) by the Federal Trade Commission against 10X Genomyx (an intervenor in this appeal) over importation of patented microfluidic chips, in Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. v. International Trade Commission. (10X Genomyx obtained a similar exclusion order against Bio-Rad in a case appealed last month; see “Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. v. Int’l. Trade Comm”.) In this action, Bio-Rad filed a complaint against 10X Genomyx alleging that importation of certain microfluidics chips infringed claims of U.S….
