About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

37 J. Pat. Off. Soc'y 319 (1955)
The Romance Discoverable in Patent Cases

handle is hein.journals/jpatos37 and id is 345 raw text is: The Romance Discoverable in Patent Cases* By HON. SIMON H. RIFKIND t I must confess that when I received the invitation from the Sixth Circuit to come and address this Annual Conference, I was duly flattered. It is a privilege which comes to a member of the Bar very rarely, and I asteem it very highly; but more than that, since I could discover no merit which would justify the invitation, I attributed it to friendship, and that I prize even more highly. I want to say that I am very grateful to the speakers you have beard this morning. No matter what may hap- pen in the next few minutes, this day will have been a great day in the history of Judicial Conferences. I should also confess to you that as I realized the -significance of the subject matter which was assigned to me for discussion, I began to have a few misgivings. I wasn't quite sure whether the Committee had assigned to me the subject of Romance in Patent Cases on the as- sumption that my private life was so austere that my romantic instincts revolved around the trial of patent cases, or possibly that my romantic boiling point was so low that even a patent case could pop me off. Be that as it may, it has been the habit of a lifetime with me to treat the wish of my judge as a command, to reject no assignment, and this subject having been as- signed to me, I undertook, to the best of my ability, to discharge it. I will take my theme from the point where the Chief Judge left off, and that is the commonly known fact that the District Judges generally are reluctant to try patent cases, and, as I think your Chief Judge indicated, it is because patent litigation has a poor reputation. First, it is reputed to be dull, tedious, undramatic-in short, a bore to the judge, to the lawyers and to the spectators. * Reprinted from Federal Rules Decisions, December 1954. West Pub- lishing Co., St. Paul, Minn. t Former District Judge, U. S. District Court, S. D. N. Y. -319-

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most