John B. Wyss

Counsels clients concerning mergers, joint ventures, Hart-Scott-Rodino reporting, distributional restrictions, Noerr-Pennington immunity, Robinson-Patman issues, patent-antitrust, corporate compliance, trade association activities, and horizontal restraint issues. Litigates numerous complex patent actions involving a variety of high technology issues, including pharmaceuticals (Hatch-Waxman), pesticides, genomic analysis, ADSL technology, integrated wireless electronic mail communications systems, satellite attitude control systems, CCD video cameras, semiconductor manufacturing technology, dielectric microwave filters, gene cloning, and protein purification. Represents clients in jury and non-jury patent actions in federal court, before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and on appeal to the Federal Circuit, and litigates a variety of civil antitrust and commercial cases in both federal and state courts.

Washington, DC—Wiley Rein LLP recently helped local citizens’ groups preserve one of the last, pristine tidal waterfront areas in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, resisting pressures both from county executives and from a developer who wanted to build a multi-home project in violation of the state’s Critical Area laws. On March 1, after a dispute that spanned 12 years and numerous hearings over 18 months, the Anne Arundel County Board of Appeals dismissed the case – one of the longest running matters of its kind in the county’s history.

Washington, DC—Wiley Rein LLP recently helped the South Arundel Citizens for Responsible Development (SACReD) and West/Rhode Riverkeeper to secure standing in a hotly disputed housing development proposed by the Snyder Development Corporation—Turtle Run at Deep Cove—located in Churchton, Maryland. John Wyss, senior counsel in Wiley Rein’s Litigation Practice, provided pro bono legal counsel in the matter, working closely with the Chesapeake Legal Alliance (CLA), and another Washington, DC-based attorney in private practice. Wiley Rein associate Margaret Matavich also assisted on the project.

Washington, DC — Wiley Rein served as transaction and regulatory counsel to Alpha Media on its purchase of 114 radio stations from Digity Media, LLC – an acquisition that makes Alpha Media the fourth largest broadcast radio company in the country, by both station count and market count. Wiley Rein also served as counsel to Alpha Media on all related financing arrangements.

Wiley Rein, representing amici Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), helped persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Highmark Inc. v. Allcare Health Management Systems Inc. On behalf of BCBSA, Wiley Rein filed the only amicus brief that supported Highmark’s certiorari petition in April 2013.