11 Facts About Richard Linn

Richard Linn earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1965.

Richard Linn was a patent examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office from 1965 to 1968.

Richard Linn earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1969.

Richard Linn served as a patent adviser in the Office of Naval Research of the Naval Air Systems Command from 1971 to 1972.

Richard Linn was nominated by President Bill Clinton on September 28,1999, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated by Judge Giles Rich.

Richard Linn was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 19,1999, and received commission on November 22,1999.

Richard Linn was a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Virginia State Bar Section on Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law.

Richard Linn received the Rensselaer Alumni Association Fellows Award in 2000.

Richard Linn became actively involved in the American Inns of Court movement upon joining the Federal Circuit in 2000, when he began attending monthly meetings of the Giles Sutherland Rich American Inn of Court at the Federal Circuit.

Richard Linn later served a term as President of the Giles Rich Inn.

The organizers later decided to name the Inn for him in honor of his contributions to intellectual property law, and the Richard Linn Inn was chartered in 2007.