    Congressional Directory for the 115th Congress (2017-2018), October 2018 Revision
    [Pages 865-870]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

             UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT

               717 Madison Place, NW., 20439, phone (202) 275-8000

        SHARON PROST, chief judge; was appointed by President George W. Bush
    in 2001. Prior to her appointment, Judge Prost served as Minority Chief
    Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, and Chief Counsel of the Committee on the
    Judiciary, United States Senate from 1993 to 2001. She also served as
    Chief Labor Counsel (Minority), Senate Committee on Labor and Human
    Resources from 1989 to 1993. She was Assistant Solicitor, Associate
    Solicitor, and Acting Solicitor of the National Labor Relations Board
    from 1984 to 1989. She was an Attorney at the Internal Revenue Service
    from 1983 to 1984, and Field Attorney at the Federal Labor Relations
    Authority from 1980 to 1983. Judge Prost also served as Labor Relations
    Specialist / Auditor at the United States General Accounting Office from
    1976 to 1980 and Labor Relations Specialist at the United States Civil
    Service Commission from 1973 to 1976. Judge Prost received a B.S. from
    Cornell University in 1973, an M.B.A. from George Washington University
    in 1975, a J.D. from the Washington College of Law, American University
    in 1979, and an LL.M. from George Washington University School of Law in
    1984.

        PAULINE NEWMAN, circuit judge; was appointed by President Ronald
    Reagan in 1984. From 1982 to 1984, Judge Newman was Special Adviser to
    the United States Delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on the
    Revision of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial
    Property. She served on the advisory committee to the Domestic Policy
    Review of Industrial Innovation from 1978 to 1979 and on the State
    Department Advisory Committee on International Intellectual Property
    from 1974 to 1984. From 1969 to 1984, Judge Newman served as director,
    Patent, Trademark and Licensing Department, FMC Corp. From 1961 to 1962
    she worked for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
    Organization as a science policy specialist in the Department of Natural
    Sciences. She served as patent attorney and house counsel of FMC Corp.
    from 1954 to 1969 and as research scientist, American Cyanamid Co. from
    1951 to 1954. Judge Newman received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1947,
    an M.A. from Columbia University in 1948, a Ph.D. from Yale University
    in 1952 and an LL.B. from New York University School of Law in 1958.

        ALAN D. LOURIE, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States
    Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 6, 1990, by President
    George H.W. Bush. He was formerly Vice President, Corporate Patents and
    Trademarks, and Associate General Counsel of SmithKline Beecham
    Corporation. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1935, Judge
    Lourie received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard University (1956),
    his Master's degree in organic chemistry from the University of
    Wisconsin (1958), and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of
    Pennsylvania (1965). He received his J.D. degree from Temple University
    in 1970. Before being appointed to the court, Judge Lourie had been
    President of the Philadelphia Patent Law Association, a member of the
    Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association
    (formerly American Patent Law Association), treasurer of the Association
    of Corporate Patent Counsel, and a member of the board of directors of
    the Intellectual Property Owners Association. He was also Vice Chairman
    of the Industry Functional Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property
    Rights for Trade Policy Matters (IFAC 3) for the Department of Commerce
    and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. He was a member of the
    U.S. delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on the Revision of the
    Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, held in
    Geneva in October and November 1982, and in March 1984. He was chairman
    of the Patent Committee of the Law Section of the Pharmaceutical
    Manufacturers Association from 1980 to 1985. Judge Lourie was awarded
    the Jefferson Medal of the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law
    Association for extraordinary contributions to the field of intellectual
    property law in 1998; was a recipient of the Intellectual Property
    Owners Education Foundation Distinguished Intellectual Property
    Professional Award for extraordinary leadership in the intellectual
    property community

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    and a lifetime commitment to invention and innovation in 2008; was a
    recipient of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association's
    Award for outstanding IP achievement in 2010; was a recipient of the
    Boston Patent Law Association's Distinguished Public Service Award in
    2011; was a recipient of a ``lifetime achievement'' award from The
    Sedona Conference in 2011; and recently was a recipient of NYIPLA's 10th
    Annual Outstanding Public Service Award in 2012. He was a member of the
    Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosure from 1990 to 1998
    and has been a member of the Committee on Codes of Conduct since 2005.
    He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association,
    the American Chemical Society, the Cosmos Club, and the Harvard Club of
    Washington. Judge Lourie is married and has two daughters and four
    grandchildren.

        TIMOTHY B. DYK, circuit judge; was appointed by President William J.
    Clinton in 2000. Prior to his appointment, Judge Dyk was Partner and
    Chair, Issues and Appeals Practice Area, at Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue
    from 1990 to 2000. He was Adjunct Professor at Yale Law School from 1986
    to 1987 and 1989, at the University of Virginia Law School in 1984 and
    1985, and from 1987 to 1988, and at the Georgetown University Law Center
    in 1983, 1986, 1989 and 1991. Judge Dyk was Associate and Partner,
    Wilmer Cutler and Pickering from 1964 to 1990. From 1963 to 1964, Judge
    Dyk served as Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Louis F.
    Oberdorfer. He also served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren from
    1962 to 1963, and to Justices Reed and Burton (retired) from 1961 to
    1962. Judge Dyk received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1958 and an
    LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1961. He was First President of the
    Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court from 2000 to 2001 and President of
    the Giles Sutherland Rich Inn of Court from 2006 to 2007. He was the
    recipient of the 2012 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for
    the Federal Circuit. Judge Dyk is the co-author of the Chapter on
    Patents in the Third Edition of the treatise, Business and Commercial
    Litigation in Federal Courts.

        KIMBERLY A. MOORE, circuit judge; was appointed by President George
    W. Bush in 2006. Prior to her appointment, Judge Moore was a Professor
    of Law from 2004-06 and Associate Professor of Law from 2000 to 2004 at
    the George Mason University School of Law. She was an Assistant
    Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law from 1999
    to 2000. She served both as an Assistant Professor of Law from 1997 to
    1999 and the Associate Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program
    from 1998 to 1999 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Judge Moore
    clerked from 1995 to 1997 for the Honorable Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Chief
    Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and
    was an Associate at Kirkland and Ellis from 1994 to 1995. From 1988 to
    1992, Judge Moore was employed in electrical engineering with the Naval
    Surface Warfare Center. Judge Moore received her B.S.E.E. in 1990, M.S.
    in 1991, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her
    J.D., cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1994. Judge
    Moore has written and presented widely on patent litigation. She co-
    authored a legal casebook entitled Patent Litigation and Strategy and
    served as the Editor of The Federal Circuit Bar Journal from 1998 to
    2006.

        KATHLEEN M. O'MALLEY, circuit judge; was appointed to the United
    States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack
    Obama in 2010. Prior to her elevation to the Federal Circuit, Judge
    O'Malley was appointed to the United States District Court for the
    Northern District of Ohio by President William J. Clinton on October 12,
    1994. Judge O'Malley served as First Assistant Attorney General and
    Chief of Staff for Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher from 1992-94, and
    Chief Counsel to Attorney General Fisher from 1991-92. From 1985-91, she
    worked for Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur, where she became a
    partner. From 1983-84, she was an associate at Jones, Day, Reavis and
    Pogue. During her sixteen years on the district court bench, Judge
    O'Malley presided over in excess of 100 patent and trademark cases and
    sat by designation on the United States Circuit Court for the Federal
    Circuit. As an educator, Judge O'Malley has regularly taught a course on
    Patent Litigation at Case Western Reserve University Law School; she is
    a member of the faculty of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology's
    program designed to educate Federal Judges regarding the handling of
    intellectual property cases. Judge O'Malley serves as a board member of
    the Sedona Conference; as the judicial liaison to the Local Patent Rules
    Committee for the Northern District of Ohio; and as an advisor to
    national organizations publishing treatises on patent litigation
    (Anatomy of a Patent Case, Complex Litigation Committee of the American
    College of Trial Lawyers; Patent Case Management Judicial Guide,
    Berkeley Center for Law and Technology). Judge O'Malley began her legal
    career as a law clerk to the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, Sixth Circuit
    Court of Appeals in 1982-83. She received her J.D. degree from Case
    Western Reserve University School of Law, Order of the Coif, in 1982,
    where she served on Law Review and was a member

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    of the National Mock Trial Team. Judge O'Malley attended Kenyon College
    in Gambier, Ohio where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa
    in 1979.

        JIMMIE V. REYNA, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States
    Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in
    2011. Prior to his appointment, Judge Reyna was an international trade
    attorney and shareholder at Williams Mullen, where, from 1998 to 2011,
    he directed the firm's Trade and Customs Practice Group and its Latin
    America Task Force, and served on its board of directors (2006-08, 2009-
    11). He was an associate and partner at the law firm of Stewart and
    Stewart (1986-98). From 1981 to 1986, Judge Reyna was a solo
    practitioner in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, prior to that, an associate
    at Shaffer, Butt, Thornton and Baehr, also in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
    Judge Reyna served on the U.S. roster of dispute settlement panelists
    for trade disputes under Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade
    Agreement, and the U.S. Indicative List of Non-Governmental Panelists
    for the World Trade Organization, Dispute Settlement Mechanism, for both
    trade in goods and trade in services. Judge Reyna is the author of two
    books, Passport to North American Trade: Rules of Origin and Customs
    Procedures Under the NAFTA (Shepards 1995), and The GATT Uruguay Round,
    A Negotiating History: Services, 1986-92 (Kluwer 1993) and numerous
    articles on international trade and customs issues. He was the founder
    and Senior Co-Editor of the Hispanic National Bar Association Journal of
    Law and Policy. Judge Reyna is a recipient of the Ohtli Award (the
    highest honor bestowed by the Mexican Government for non-Mexican
    citizens). Other awards include: 100 Influentials, Hispanic Business
    Magazine, 2011; 101 Latino Leaders in America, Latino Leaders Magazine,
    2011 and 2012; Minority Business Leader, Washington Business Journal;
    Extraordinary Leadership, Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA);
    Lifetime Honorary Membership, Society of Hispanic Professional
    Engineers; Distinguished Citizen Award, Military Airlift Command, U.S.
    Air Force; Spirit of Excellence Award, Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of
    Commerce. Judge Reyna served over a decade of leadership in the HNBA,
    including as National President (2006-07). He served in various
    leadership positions in the ABA Sections on International Law and
    Dispute Settlement. He was a founder and member of the board of
    directors of the U.S. Mexico Law Institute, and the Community Services
    for Autistic Adults and Children Foundation. He currently serves on the
    Nationwide Hispanic Advisory Council of Big Brothers Big Sisters of
    America. He received a B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1975 and
    a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1978.

        EVAN J. WALLACH, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States
    Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in
    2011, confirmed by the Senate on November 9, 2011, and assumed the
    duties of his office on November 18, 2011. Prior to his appointment, he
    served for sixteen years as a judge of the United States Court of
    International Trade, having been appointed to that court by President
    William J. Clinton in 1995. Judge Wallach worked as a general litigation
    partner with an emphasis on media representation at the law firm of
    Lionel Sawyer and Collins in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1982 to 1995. He was
    an associate at the same firm from 1976 to 1982. While working with the
    firm, Judge Wallach took a leave of absence to serve as General Counsel
    and Public Policy Advisor to Senator Harry Reid from 1987 to 1988. From
    1989 to 1995, he served in the Nevada National Guard as a Judge
    Advocate. In 1991, while on leave from his firm, he served as an
    Attorney / Advisor in the International Affairs Division of the Judge
    Advocate of the Army at the Pentagon. Judge Wallach, a recognized expert
    in the law of war, has taught at a number of law schools, including
    Brooklyn Law School, New York Law School, George Mason University School
    of Law, and the University of Muenster in Munster, Germany. Judge
    Wallach has received a number of awards, including: the ABA Liberty Bell
    Award in 1993; the Nevada Press Association President's Award in 1994;
    and the Clark County School Librarians Intellectual Freedom Award in
    1995. Judge Wallach served on active duty in the Army of the United
    States from 1969 to 1971. During his military career, he was awarded the
    Bronze Star, the Air Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Meritorious
    Service Medal, the Nevada Medal of Merit, the Valorous Unit Citation, a
    Vietnam Campaign Medal, and the RVN Cross of Gallantry with Palm. Judge
    Wallach received his B.A. in Journalism from the University of Arizona
    in 1973, his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976,
    and an LLB with honors in International Law from Cambridge University in
    1981.

        RICHARD G. TARANTO, circuit judge; was appointed to the United
    States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H.
    Obama, in 2013, confirmed by the Senate on March 11, 2013 and assumed
    the duties of his office on March 15, 2013. Judge Taranto practiced law
    with the firm of Farr and Taranto from 1989 to 2013, where he
    specialized in appellate litigation. From 1986 to 1989, he served as an
    Assistant to the Solicitor General, representing the United States in
    the Supreme Court. He was in private

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    practice from 1984 to 1986 with the law firm of Onek, Klein and Farr.
    Judge Taranto served as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal
    court system. He clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme
    Court of the United States from 1983 to 1984; for Judge Robert Bork of
    the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
    from 1982 to 1983; and for Judge Abraham Sofaer of the United States
    District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1981 to 1982.
    Judge Taranto received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1981 and a B.A.
    from Pomona College in 1977.

        RAYMOND T. CHEN, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States
    Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H. Obama in
    2013, confirmed by the Senate on August 1, 2013 and assumed his office
    on August 5, 2013. Judge Chen served as Deputy General Counsel for
    Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor at the United States Patent and
    Trademark Office from 2008 to 2013. He was an Associate Solicitor in
    that office from 1998 to 2008. From 1996 to 1998, Judge Chen served as a
    Technical Assistant at the United States Court of Appeals for the
    Federal Circuit. Before joining the court staff, Judge Chen was an
    associate with Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear from 1994 to 1996. Before
    entering law school, Judge Chen worked as a scientist at the law firm of
    Hecker and Harriman from 1989 to 1991. Judge Chen received his J.D. from
    the New York University School of Law in 1994 and his B.S. in Electrical
    Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990.

        TODD M. HUGHES, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States
    Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H. Obama in
    2013, confirmed by the Senate on September 24, 2013 and assumed the
    duties of his office on September 30, 2013. Judge Hughes served as
    Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil
    Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2007 to 2013.
    He was the Assistant Director in that office from 1999 to 2007 and a
    Trial Attorney from 1994 to 1999. From 1992 to 1994, Judge Hughes served
    as a Law Clerk to Circuit Judge Robert Krupansky of the United States
    Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was an Adjunct Lecturer in
    Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law during the Spring, 1994
    semester. Judge Hughes received a J.D. from Duke Law School in 1992, an
    M.A. from Duke University in 1992, and an A.B. from Harvard College in
    1989.

        KARA FARNANDEZ STOLL, circuit judge; was appointed to the United
    States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H.
    Obama on November 12, 2014, was confirmed unanimously by the United
    States Senate on July 7, 2015, and assumed her duties on July 17, 2015.
    Judge Stoll practiced law with the firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow,
    Garrett and Dunner from 1998 to 2015, and became a partner at the firm
    in 2006. While in private practice, Judge Stoll specialized in patent
    litigation with an emphasis on appeals. Judge Stoll was an adjunct
    professor at George Mason University Law School from 2008 to 2015 and at
    the Howard University School of Law from 2004 to 2008. From 1997 to
    1998, Judge Stoll served as a law clerk to The Honorable Alvin A. Schall
    of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Judge
    Stoll worked as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and
    Trademark Office from 1991 to 1997. Judge Stoll received a J.D. from the
    Georgetown University School of Law in 1997, where she received the Leon
    Robin Patent Award, and a B.S.E.E. from Michigan State University in
    1991.

                              SENIOR CIRCUIT JUDGES

        HALDANE ROBERT MAYER, circuit judge; has been a member of the court
    since 1987. He served as Chief Judge from 1997 to 2004. Born in Buffalo,
    Judge Mayer was educated in the public schools of Lockport, New York,
    before attending the United States Military Academy at West Point, from
    which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1963. He earned
    a law degree in 1971 at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of The College
    of William and Mary, where he was editor-in-chief of the William and
    Mary Law Review as well as a member of Omicron Delta Kappa National
    Leadership Society. He has served as a director of the William and Mary
    Law School Association. Judge Mayer served on active duty in the Army of
    the United States from 1963 until 1975 in the Infantry and the Judge
    Advocate General's Corps. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the
    Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf
    Cluster, the Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Ranger Tab,
    RVN Ranger Combat Badge, and several campaign and service ribbons. He
    resigned his Regular Army commission to take an Army Reserve commission,
    retiring in 1985 as a lieutenant colonel. In 1971, Judge Mayer served as
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    law clerk for Judge John D. Butzner, Jr., of the United States Court of
    Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, VA. He practiced law in
    Charlottesville, VA, in the mid-1970's, simultaneously serving as an
    adjunct at the University of Virginia School of Law, as he did again in
    the 1990's. He has also been an adjunct at George Washington University
    National Law Center. From 1977 through 1980, Judge Mayer was the Special
    Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger,
    after which he returned to private law practice in Washington, DC, until
    he became Deputy and Acting Special Counsel (by designation of the
    President). President Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Mayer to what is now
    the United States Court of Federal Claims in 1982, and to the United
    States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1987. He assumed
    senior status on June 30, 2010.

        S. JAY PLAGER, circuit judge; was appointed Circuit Judge by
    President George H.W. Bush in 1989. Prior to his appointment, Judge
    Plager served in the Executive Office of the President from 1987 to
    1989, as Associate Director of OMB and as Administrator, OIRA. He served
    as Counselor to the Under Secretary, Department of Health and Human
    Services from 1986 to 1987. Judge Plager was Dean and Professor, Indiana
    University School of Law from 1977 to 1984. He was Professor, Faculty of
    Law, University of Illinois from 1964 to 1977, and from 1958 to 1964 was
    Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Florida. Judge Plager was
    Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Law School from 1984 to 1985,
    Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, and Visiting Professor, Cambridge
    University in 1980, and Visiting Research Professor of Law, University
    of Wisconsin from 1967 to 1968. Judge Plager served on active duty in
    the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict. Judge Plager grew up
    in New Jersey, where he attended public schools. In 1952, he received an
    A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina, a J.D. in 1958 from
    the University of Florida, with high honors, where he was editor-in-
    chief of the Florida Law Review, and in 1961 an LL.M. from Columbia
    University. He has three children. Judge Plager assumed senior status in
    2000.

        RAYMOND C. CLEVENGER III, circuit judge; was appointed by President
    George H.W. Bush in 1990. Judge Clevenger received a B.A. from Yale
    University in 1959. As a Carnegie Teaching Fellow, he taught European
    History at Yale College in the 1959-60 academic year. From 1960 to 1963,
    he was employed by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York City.
    He received an LL.B. from Yale University in 1966. Judge Clevenger
    served as a law clerk to Mr. Justice White in October Term 1966. Judge
    Clevenger joined Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering in 1967, serving as a
    partner in the firm from 1974 until his appointment to the bench. Judge
    Clevenger assumed senior status on February 1, 2006.

        ALVIN A. SCHALL, circuit judge; was appointed by President George
    H.W. Bush in 1992. Prior to his appointment, Judge Schall served as
    Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States from 1988 to
    1992. He was a member of the Washington, DC law firm of Perlman and
    Partners from 1987 to 1988. He served as Trial Attorney and Senior Trial
    Counsel, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, from 1978
    to 1987. Judge Schall was an Assistant United States Attorney, Office of
    the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, from
    1973 to 1978, and served as Chief of the Appeals Division from 1977 to
    1978. From 1969 to 1973, Judge Schall was in private practice with the
    New York City law firm of Shearman and Sterling. Judge Schall received a
    B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1966 and a J.D. degree from
    Tulane Law School in 1969. Judge Schall assumed senior status on October
    5, 2009.

        WILLIAM C. BRYSON, circuit judge; was appointed by President William
    J. Clinton in 1994. Prior to his appointment, Judge Bryson was with the
    United States Department of Justice from 1978 to 1994. During that
    period, he served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General [1978-79],
    Chief of the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division [1979-83],
    Counsel to the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section [1983-86],
    Deputy Solicitor General [1986-94], Acting Solicitor General [1989 and
    1993], and Acting Associate Attorney General [1994]. He was an Associate
    at the Washington, DC law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin
    from 1975 to 1978. Judge Bryson served as Law Clerk to the Honorable
    Henry J. Friendly, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    from 1973 to 1974, and as Law Clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall,
    Supreme Court of the United States, from 1974 to 1975. Judge Bryson
    received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1969 and a J.D. from the
    University of Texas School of Law in 1973.

        RICHARD LINN, circuit judge; was appointed by President William J.
    Clinton in 1999. Prior to his appointment, Judge Linn was a Partner and
    Practice Group Leader at the Washington, DC law firm of Foley and
    Lardner from 1997 to 1999. He was a Partner and head of the intellectual
    property department at Marks and Murase, LLP from 1977 to 1997.

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    Judge Linn served as Patent Advisor, United States Naval Air Systems
    Command from 1971 to 1972, was a Patent Agent at the United States Naval
    Research Laboratory from 1968 to 1969, and served as a Patent Examiner
    at the United States Patent Office from 1965 to 1968. He was a member of
    the founding Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar Section on Patent,
    Trademark, and Copyright Law and served as Chairman in 1975. In 2000,
    Judge Linn received the Rensselaer Alumni Association Fellows Award. He
    was honored in 2006 for dedication, service, and devotion to justice by
    the Austin Intellectual Property Law Association. Judge Linn was awarded
    the 2009 New York Intellectual Property Law Association Leadership
    Award. He also received the 2009 Jefferson Medal from the New Jersey
    Intellectual Property Law Association ``in recognition of meritorious
    and outstanding contributions in support of the Constitution of the
    United States of America and furtherance of a fundamental principle
    thereof--`to promote the progress of Science and useful Arts.' '' In
    2010, Judge Linn received the Outstanding Public Service Award from the
    New York Intellectual Property Law Association. In 2011, he was awarded
    the inaugural Mark Banner Award by the American Bar Association for his
    contributions to intellectual property law and the A. Sherman
    Christensen Award by the American Inns of Court Foundation for
    distinguished, exceptional and significant leadership to the American
    Inns of Court movement. He served as an Adjunct Professor and
    Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School
    from 2001 to 2003, and currently serves on the Law School's Intellectual
    Property Advisory Board. Judge Linn is a past president of the Giles
    Sutherland Rich American Inn of Court, a member of the Richard Linn
    American Inn of Court, a visiting member of the Hon. William C. Conner
    American Inn of Court, and an honorary lifetime member of the Benjamin
    Franklin American Inn of Court. He received a B.E.E. from Rensselaer
    Polytechnic Institute in 1965, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law
    Center in 1969.

                 Officers of the United States Court of Appeals
                              for the Federal Circuit

        Circuit Executive and Clerk of Court.--Peter R. Marksteiner (202)
            275-8020.
        General Counsel.--J. Douglas Steere, 275-8080.
        Circuit Librarian.--John D. Moore, 275-8403.
        Chief Deputy Clerk.--Jarrett B. Perlow, 275-8021.
        Director of Information Technology.--Mona Harrington, 275-8420.
        Deputy Circuit Executive and Operations Officer.--Dale Bosley, 275-
            8141.