Giles Rich
| Giles Rich | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | |
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In office October 1, 1982 – June 9, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Seat established |
| Succeeded by | Richard Linn |
| Associate Judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals | |
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In office July 19, 1956 – October 1, 1982 |
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| Appointed by | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Noble Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
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May 30, 1904 Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 9, 1999 (aged 95) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Columbia University |
Giles Sutherland Rich (May 30, 1904 – June 9, 1999) was a judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) and later on 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.
Judge 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 B.S. from Harvard College in 1926 and an LL.B. 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, NY. 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.
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