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    <title>Giles S. Rich papers, 1790-1999 (bulk 1956-1999)</title>
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    <namePart>Rich, Giles S.</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, notes, opinion files, teaching files, printed matter, clippings, and other papers documenting Rich's career in patent and intellectual property law as a judge on the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and its successor the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Includes material pertaining to patents in the biotechnology, computer software, and pharmaceutical industries; design protection; and the "nonobviousness" standard for patents.  Correspondents include Tom Arnold, George E. Frost, Frank Y. Gladney, Learned Hand, Alan Latman, Paul P. Rao, Homer J. Schneider, Arthur M. Smith, and Robert C. Watson.</abstract>
  <note>Restrictions apply.</note>
  <note>Audio and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Book transferred to Library of Congress Anglo-American Acquisitions Division.</note>
  <note>Federal judge and patent attorney.  Full name: Giles Sutherland Rich.  Born 1904; died 1999.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Arnold, Tom</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Frost, George E</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1918-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Gladney, Frank Y. (Frank Young)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hand, Learned</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1961</namePart>
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      <namePart>Latman, Alan</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rao, Paul P</namePart>
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      <namePart>Schneider, Homer J</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Smith, Arthur M. (Arthur Mumford)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Watson, Robert C</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Court of Appeals (Federal Circuit)</namePart>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Biotechnology</topic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Biotechnology industries</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Computer software</topic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Computer software industry</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Design protection</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Intellectual property</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Patent laws and legislation</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Patents</topic>
    <topic>Standards</topic>
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    <topic>Pharmaceutical industry</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Pharmaceutical industry</topic>
    <topic>Patents</topic>
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    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
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