Judge Richard Linn to Receive the 2024 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Federal Circuit
May 07 2024 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
Judge Richard Linn has been selected to receive the prestigious
2024 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Federal
Circuit. Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit by President Bill Clinton in 1999, Linn took senior status
in 2012. He will receive the award at the Federal Circuit Judicial
Conference in May.
Linn received this recognition from his peers not for his work
as a judge but for his decades-long commitment to promoting
American Inns of Court focused on intellectual property. “It is not
hyperbole to say that Judge Linn’s devotion and dedication to the
Intellectual Property Inns of Court is unmatched,” write Federal
Circuit Judges Sharon Prost and Kara Farnadez Stoll of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, who nominated Linn for
the award. “[Linn’s] initiative to create and nourish new
Intellectual Property Inns across the country has succeeded beyond
even his wildest dreams.” The initial goal of the Linn Inn Alliance
was not just to bring together existing Intellectual Property Inns
but to create 10 new Inns by 2010; today the alliance includes 29
Inns, most of them newly created with Linn’s help. Linn even
expanded his efforts overseas, helping to establish the first and
only Intellectual Property Inn outside the United States in
Tokyo.
Linn is a past president of the Giles S. Rich American Inn of
Court, a member of the Richard Linn Inn, a visiting member of the
Honorable William C. Conner Inn, and an honorary lifetime member of
the Benjamin Franklin Inn. In 2011, he received the American Inns
of Court A. Sherman Christensen Award. In 2014, he received the
Honorable William C. Conner American Inn of Court Excellence Award.
In 2015, the American Intellectual Property Law Association gave
Linn its Excellence Award, its highest honor.
Before becoming a judge, Linn was a lawyer in private practice.
From 1997 to 1999, he was a partner at Foley & Lardner LLP.
From 1977 to 1997, he was a partner and head of the intellectual
property department at Marks & Murase LLP. Earlier in his
career, Linn worked as a patent examiner.
Linn earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1965. He earned his law
degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1969.
The American Inns of Court, headquartered in Alexandria,
Virginia, inspires the legal community to advance the rule of law
by achieving the highest level of professionalism through example,
education, and mentoring. The organization’s membership includes
nearly 30,000 federal, state, and local judges; lawyers; law
professors; and law students in more than 360 chapters nationwide.
More information is available at www.innsofcourt.org.
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