Background
Linn, Richard was born on April 13, 1944 in Brooklyn. Son of Marvin and Enid (Rowe) Linn.
Linn, Richard was born on April 13, 1944 in Brooklyn. Son of Marvin and Enid (Rowe) Linn.
As a youth, Richard Linn attended Poly Prep Country Day School. He earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1965.
He was a patent examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office from 1965 to 1968. He earned a law degree from Georgetown in 1969. Linn served as a patent adviser in the Office of Naval Research of the Naval Air Systems Command from 1971 to 1972.
He specialized in patent and intellectual property law in private practice at the law firms of Marks & Murase, and Foley & Lardner. Linn was appointed to the Federal Circuit by President Bill Clinton, who on September 28, 1999 nominated him to the seat vacated by Giles Sutherland Rich. The Senate confirmed Linn on November 19, 1999, and he received his judicial commission on November 22, 1999.
He was sworn in on January 1, 2000. Linn took senior status on October 31, 2012. From 2001 to 2003, he was an adjunct professor at George Washington University School of Law.
Linn became actively involved in the American Inns of Court movement upon joining the Federal Circuit in 2000, when he began attending monthly meetings of the Giles Sutherland Rich American Inn of Court at the Federal Circuit. Linn later served a term as President of the Giles Rich Inn. The Richard Linn American Inn of Court was formed in Chicago on the initiative of Olivia Luk, a lawyer who had been mentored by Linn at the Giles Rich Inn.
Upon moving to Chicago, Luk found that there was no Inn of Court focused on intellectual property there, and asked for Linn's help in forming an organizing committee. The organizers later decided to name the Inn for him in honor of his contributions to intellectual property law, and the Linn Inn was chartered in 2007. The also began in 2007, as an alliance of the Linn Inn with the four previously-existing intellectual property focused American Inns of Court: the Giles Rich Inn, the John Lifland Inn (New Jersey), the Benjamin Franklin Inn (Philadelphia), and the San Francisco Bay Area IP Inn of Court.
Through the alliance, the IP Inns share their creative programs and allow visiting attorneys to attend meetings of sister Inns while traveling. NTP, Inc. v. Research In Motion (BlackBerry patent litigation)
800 Adept v. Targus (Toll-free telephone number patent litigation )
Uniloc USA, Inc. v.
Microsoft Corp., 632 F.3d 1292 (Fed Cir 2011) (patent damages 25% Rule rejected ).
Bar: Virginia 1969, District of Columbia 1970, New York 1994, United States District Court (eastern district) Virginia 1969, United States District Court District of Columbia 1970, United States Court Appeals (4th circuit) 1970, United States.Ct. Appeals (District of Columbia circuit) 1970, United States Court Appeals (federal circuit) 1982, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1994.
Member, Founding Board of Governors, 1970, Chairman, 1974-1975, Virginia State Bar Section on Intellectual Property Law. Representative to the International Trademark Association, 1977. Member: The District of Columbia Bar (Member, Section on Intellectual Property Law).
Virginia State Bar (Member, Section on Intellectual Property Law). New York State and American (Member, Section of Intellectual Property Law) Bar Associations. American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Married Patricia Madden, August 8, 1966. Children: Sandra Joan, Deborah Anne.
