Giles Rich

Judge, Politician

1904 – 1999

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Who was Giles Rich?

Giles Sutherland Rich was a judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and later on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and arguably had more influence than any other individual on modern U.S. patent law.

Rich was born May 30, 1904 in Rochester, New York. He received a B.S. from Harvard College in 1926 and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1929, and began working as a patent attorney at his father's New York City law firm that same year. He soon also began guest lecturing on patent law at Columbia University, and during the late 1940s, he became the president of the New York Patent Law Association, and in 1947 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, the chief patent examiner of the U.S. Patent Office. After four years of work, Rich and Federico's statute draft was introduced in Congress by Joseph Bryson in 1951. After passing both houses without debate, as part of a "consent bill", it was signed into law by President Truman in 1952, to take effect in 1953. It was the first full revision of U.S. patent law since the Patent Act of 1836.

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Born
May 30, 1904
Rochester
Also known as
  • Judge Giles Sutherland Rich
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Harvard College
  • Columbia Law School
Lived in
  • Rochester
Died
Jun 15, 1999

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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