Giles S. Rich papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 661
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; Intellectual property; Patent laws and legislation; United States. Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit); Standards; Pharmaceutical industry; Computer software industry; Biotechnology industries; Design protection; Patents
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, notes, opinion files, teaching files, printed matter, clippings, and other papers documenting Rich's career in patent and intellectual property law as a judge on the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and its successor the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Includes material pertaining to patents in the biotechnology, computer software,  and pharmaceutical industries, to design protection, and to the "nonobviousness" standard for patents.  Correspondents include Tom Arnold, George E. Frost, Frank Y. Gladney, Learned Hand, Alan Latman, Paul P. Rao, Homer J. Schneider, Arthur M. Smith, and Robert C. Watson.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Gift, estate of Giles S. Rich, 2000-2001.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Federal judge and patent attorney.  Full name: Giles Sutherland Rich.  Born 1904; died 1999.

Collection material in English.

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