Pauline Newman

Pauline Newman
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Assumed office
February 28, 1984
Hiatus since September 20, 2023[1]
Appointed byRonald Reagan
Preceded byPhilip Nichols Jr.
Personal details
Born (1927-06-20) June 20, 1927 (age 96)
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationVassar College (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
Yale University (PhD)
New York University (LLB)

Pauline Newman (born June 20, 1927)[2] is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has been called "the heroine of the patent system",[3] "the Federal Circuit's most prolific dissenter", and "the greatest ally to inventors with respect to [calling out] the ignorance of the CAFC, district courts, and at times even the Supreme Court".[4] Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore commented of Newman that "many of her dissents have later gone on to become the law—either the en banc law from our court or spoken on high from the Supremes".[5]

  1. ^ "A 96-year-old federal judge is barred from hearing cases in a bitter fight over her mental fitness". AP News. September 20, 2023.
  2. ^ "The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: A History, 1982–1990". United States Judicial Conference Committee on the Bicentennial of the Constitution of the United States. May 18, 1991 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Weiner, Rachel (June 6, 2023). "Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire; She's suing them instead". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ Daryl Lim, "I Dissent: The Federal Circuit's "Great Dissenter", Her Influence on the Patent Dialogue, and Why It Matters", 19 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (Summer 2017), Vol. 19, Iss. 4.
  5. ^ NYU School of Law, Law Women Alumna of the Year: Judge Pauline Newman '58, YouTube (Feb. 19, 2013), Archived. Lynn Levine, Senior of Counsel in the Intellectual Property Group at Morrison and Foerster was the co-honoree.

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