Richard Posner, patent judge
Innovation Nation at War
By JOE NOCERA
CHICAGO
“I decided it would be fun to do patent trials,” said Richard Posner.
We were sitting in his spacious office in the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago, where, for more than three decades, Posner, 74, has been a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Posner is one of the most prolific writers in the country, not just of legal opinions but of books and articles on a staggering variety of subjects.
He is also one of the most highly regarded appeals court judges. His first book, “Economic Analysis of Law,” written in 1973, “showed how economic principles could be fruitfully applied to many legal problems,” as the legal writer Roger Parloff once put it in Fortune magazine. It has had a profound effect on the law.
In recent years, Posner has done something you don’t see appeals court justices do very often. He has volunteered to serve as a district judge in lawsuits involving patent claims. One case, Apple v. Motorola Mobility, was a high-profile smartphone lawsuit. The other, Brandeis and GFA Brands v. Keebler, involved a patent for cookie formula, and was mainly of interest to the patent cognoscenti.
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CHICAGO
“I decided it would be fun to do patent trials,” said Richard Posner.
We were sitting in his spacious office in the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago, where, for more than three decades, Posner, 74, has been a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Posner is one of the most prolific writers in the country, not just of legal opinions but of books and articles on a staggering variety of subjects.
He is also one of the most highly regarded appeals court judges. His first book, “Economic Analysis of Law,” written in 1973, “showed how economic principles could be fruitfully applied to many legal problems,” as the legal writer Roger Parloff once put it in Fortune magazine. It has had a profound effect on the law.
In recent years, Posner has done something you don’t see appeals court justices do very often. He has volunteered to serve as a district judge in lawsuits involving patent claims. One case, Apple v. Motorola Mobility, was a high-profile smartphone lawsuit. The other, Brandeis and GFA Brands v. Keebler, involved a patent for cookie formula, and was mainly of interest to the patent cognoscenti.
(More here.)
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