The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is one of the 13 United States courts of appeals. It has appellate jurisdiction over certain categories of specialized cases in the U.S. federal court system. Specifically,it has exclusive appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cases involving patents,trademark registrations,government contracts,veterans' benefits,public safety officers' benefits,federal employees' benefits,and various other types of cases. The Federal Circuit has no jurisdiction over criminal,bankruptcy,immigration,or U.S. state law cases. It is headquartered at the Howard T. Markey National Courts Building in Washington,D.C.
Innovation and Its Discontents:How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress,and What To Do About It is a book (ISBN 0-691-11725-X) by Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner. Princeton University Press published the book in 2004.
Pierre Nelson Leval is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time of his appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993,he was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Edith Hollan Jones is a United States circuit judge and the former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Karen Mary Nelson Moore is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Her chambers are in Cleveland,Ohio.
Kimberly Ann Moore is an American lawyer and jurist serving as chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Paul Redmond Michel is a retired United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and a former Chief Judge of that court.
Pauline Newman is an American lawyer and jurist formally serving as a U.S. Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has been suspended from her duties since September 2023. She has been called "the heroine of the patent system","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". 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".
Haldane Robert Mayer is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Orlando Luis Garcia is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and former Texas state legislator.
William David Hutchinson was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a Republican politician from Pennsylvania.
Randall Ray Rader is a former United States Circuit Judge and former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Richard Gary Taranto is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Adam B. Jaffe is a freelance economist working in Boston,Massachusetts. He was previously Director of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research,in Wellington,New Zealand and a professor of economics at Brandeis University. His areas of expertise include industrial organization,technological change and innovation,law and economics,and environmental economics. The overarching theme of his work is focused on the process of technological change and innovation.
Pamela Ann Harris is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to joining the federal bench,she was an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,and visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and executive director of its Supreme Court Institute.
Josh Lerner is an American economist known for his research in venture capital,private equity,and innovation and entrepreneurship. He is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at the Harvard Business School. According to Web of Science on June 16,2023,he has 165 indexed publications and a Hirsch index of 66,and over 74,000 citations on Google Scholar,which puts him in top 5% of economics researchers in the USA. His research encompasses investments,startups,venture capital and private equity.
Alan D Albright is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court. Albright oversees a significant portion of patent litigation within the United States. In 2021,the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit repeatedly rebuked him in a string of opinions for failing to transfer cases to more apt jurisdictions. A quarter of all patent lawsuits in the US were once heard by Albright,who has been widely criticized for ignoring binding case law. However,following a docket-stripping order issued by Chief Judge Orlando Garcia,Albright's patent docket has declined precipitously.
Morris Sheppard Arnold is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Carolyn Nancy Lerner is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
Molly Rebecca Silfen is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
