Giles Rich

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Giles Sutherland Rich (May 30, 1904 – June 9, 1999) was an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) and later on was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), and had enormous impact on patent law. He was the first patent attorney appointed to any federal court since Benjamin Robbins Curtis was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1851.

Contents

• 1 Early life

• 2 1952 Patent Act

• 3 Federal judicial service

  • 3.1 Other service

• 4 Notable judicial opinions

  • 4.1 Chakrabarty, Diehr, State Street

  • 4.2 Controversy over those cases

  • 4.3 Outspoken critic

  • 4.4 Controversy over interpretation of 1952 Act

• 5 Recognition and legacy

• 6 Personal

• 7 See also

• 8 References

• 9 Bibliography

• 10 External links

Early life

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Rich was born May 30, 1904, in Rochester , New York .

Rich was the son of Giles Willard Rich, a patent lawyer, and Sarah Thompson (Sutherland) Rich.

His father worked for a variety of clients, including George Eastman , the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company .

After his first year of high school his family moved to New York City , where he graduated from the Horace Mann School for Boys in 1922.

Rich received a Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1926 and a Bachelor of Laws from Columbia Law School in 1929.

and was admitted to the New York bar.

In the fall of 1929 he joined his father's law firm, Williams Rich & Morse, where he worked as a patent attorney

until 1952.

From 1952 to 1956, he was in private practice at Churchill, Rich, Weymouth and Engel in New York City. From 1942 to 1956, he was also a lecturer in patent law at Columbia University in its School of General Studies.

In the 1940s, motivated by a prize competition, Rich authored a series of law review articles on patent practices and the anti-monopoly laws, and particularly, on contributory infringement and misuse. The series is considered by many to be a classic in the field.

He was very active in the work of the New York Patent Law Association , and eventually became its vice president in 1948 and 1949, and its president in 1950 and 1951.

1952 Patent Act

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Rich took an active role in the work of the New York Patent Law Association

when it undertook to introduce and foster legislation to address the Supreme Court's Mercoid cases , which virtually destroyed the doctrine of contributory infringement.

In 1947 he became part of a two-person committee to draft a new U.S. patent statute,

all while continuing to practice law full-time. His partner on the statute drafting committee was Pasquale Joseph Federico ,

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