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Pauline Newman
1984 - Present
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Pauline Newman is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She joined the court in 1984 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.[1]
Education
Newman received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College in 1947, a Master's degree from Columbia-New York in 1948, and a doctorate from Yale University in 1952. Newman received her L.L.B. degree in 1958 from New York University Law School.[1]
Professional career
- 1984 - Present: Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- 1969-1984: Director, Patent, Trademark and Licensing Department, FMC Corporation, New York City and Philadelphia, Pa.
- 1961-1962: Science policy specialist, Department of Natural Sciences, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- 1954-1984: Patent attorney and house counsel, FMC Corporation, New York City and Philadelphia, Pa.
- 1951-1954: Research scientist, American Cynamid Company[1]
Judicial career
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
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| Nominee Information |
| Name: Pauline Newman |
| Court: Federal Circuit |
| Progress |
| Confirmed 28 days after nomination. |
 Nominated: January 30, 1984
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| Questionnaire: |
| Hearing: February 22, 1984
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| Reported: February 23, 1984
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| Confirmed: February 27, 1984
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| Vote: Voice vote
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Newman was nominated to the Federal Circuit by Ronald Reagan on January 30, 1984, to a seat vacated by Judge Philip Nichols. Hearings on Newman's nomination were held in the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on February 22, 1984, and her nomination was reported by U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), on February 23, 1984. Newman was confirmed by the Senate on February 27, 1984, on a voice vote. She received her commission on February 28, 1984.[1][2]
Noteworthy cases
Podcasting patent ruled unenforceable (2017)
- See also: Federal Circuit (Personal Audio LLC v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, No. 2016-1123)
- See also: Federal Circuit (Personal Audio LLC v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, No. 2016-1123)
On August 7, 2017, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a judgment of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) that a patent held by Personal Audio LLC entitled “System for Disseminating Media Content Representing Episodes in a Serialized Sequence” was unpatentable. The patent is often referred to as the podcasting patent. The suit was brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who alleged that the patent was unenforceable because claims were anticipated prior to Personal Audio securing the patent -- thus preventing Personal Audio from making a patentable claim on a technology they did not invent -- and that the claimed invention was too obvious in the marketplace to warrant patent protection. Writing for the panel, Judge Pauline Newman upheld the Board’s judgment, holding that the Board correctly constructed the terms of the patent under review and that the Board’s decision to render the patent unenforceable was merited under federal law.[3][4][5][6][7]
See also
External links
- Judge Newman's biography from the Federal Judicial Center
- Judge Newman's biography from the Federal Circuit website
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Federal Judicial Center, "Biographical directory of federal judges," accessed October 29, 2015
- ↑ United States Congress, "PN665 - Pauline Newman - The Judiciary," accessed May 24, 2016
- ↑ Arstechnica.com, "'Podcasting patent' is totally dead, appeals court rules," August 7, 2017
- ↑ The Verge.com, "Court says patent troll didn’t invent podcasting," August 8, 2017
- ↑ U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Personal Audio LLC v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, August 7, 2017
- ↑ Cornell University's Legal Information Institute, "35 U.S. Code § 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty," accessed August 10, 2017
- ↑ Cornell University's Legal Information Institute, "35 U.S. Code § 103 - Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter," accessed August 10, 2017
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United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 1984-Present |
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: Kimberly Moore • Leonard Stark • Sharon Prost • Pauline Newman • Alan Lourie • Timothy Dyk • Jimmie V. Reyna • Richard Gary Taranto • Raymond Chen • Todd Hughes • Kara Farnandez Stoll • Tiffany Cunningham | ||
| Senior judges |
Alvin Schall • Haldane Mayer • Richard Linn • William Bryson • S. Jay Plager • Raymond Clevenger • Evan Wallach • | ||
| Former judges | Kathleen M. O'Malley • Paul Michel • Randall Rader • Arthur Gajarsa • Daniel Friedman • Glenn Archer • James Almond • Jean Bissell • Phillip Baldwin • Marion Bennett • Arnold Cowen • Oscar Davis • Shiro Kashiwa • Don Laramore • Howard Markey • Jack Miller • Philip Nichols • Helen Nies • Giles Rich • Byron Skelton • Edward Samuel Smith • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Paul Michel • Sharon Prost • Haldane Mayer • Glenn Archer • Howard Markey • Helen Nies • | ||
