Background
Judge Arthur Gajarsa was born on March 1, 1941 in Norcia, Italy.
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Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Georgetown University Law Center. The Catholic University of America.
Career
He was the top ranked student in the 1958 graduating class at Boston Technical High School in Massachusetts. He matriculated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Surgery in electrical engineering. He then received a Master of Arts in economics from The Catholic University of America in 1964, and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University in 1967.
Judge Gajarsa began his career as a patent examiner with the United States. Patent and Trademark Office, served as a law clerk for Judge Joseph McGarraghy on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and worked as an attorney in the Department of Defense specializing in defense systems analysis and intellectual property rights.
He also served as Special Counsel and Assistant to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior from 1969 to 1971. He was nominated for appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on January 7, 1997, by President Bill Clinton, was confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 1997, and entered service on September 12, 1997.
He has authored Recent Developments in Antitrust for the American Bar Association in 1967-1969, and The European Common Market Antitrust Laws, Catholic University, 1967. He has also published numerous articles on economics and law.
On November 3, 2010, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced that he would replace Samuel F. Heffner as Chairman of the Board at the start of 2011.
Gajarsa took senior status, effective July 31, 2011. He retired outright on June 30, 2012. In the fall of 2012, Gajarsa joined the University of New Hampshire School of Law as its first Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence at the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property.
The Inn was launched in Concord, New Hampshire, on September 13, 2012.
Bausch and Lomb Medal, 1958.
Achievements
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Bausch and Lomb Medal, 1958 Benjamin Franklin Award, Boston Technical High School, 1958 John F Kennedy Award for Public Service, 1974 Sun and Balance Medal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990 Gigi Pieri Award, Camp Hale Association, Boston, Master of Arts, 1992 Rensselaer Key Alumni Award, 1992 125th Anniversary Medal, Georgetown University Law Center, 1995 Order of Commendatore, Republic of Italy, 1995 Alumni Fellow Award, Rensselaer Alumni Association, 1996 Albert Fox DeMers Medal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1999 Paul R. Dean Award, Georgetown University Law Center, 1999 Lifetime Achievement in Jurisprudence & Italian American Leadership, Order Sons of Italy in America, 2009.
Membership
In honor of Gajarsa, UNH Law co-founded the Arthur J. Gajarsa American Inn of Court, which is the newest member of the national Linn Intellectual Property Inn Alliance.
