- Phillip Benjamin Baldwin
Phillip Benjamin Baldwin (
December 23 ,1924 -April 20 ,2002 ) from 1968 to 1991 served as a judge onU.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) and on theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit .Baldwin was a
United States Army Air Corps pilot from 1943 to 1946, flyingB-25 Mitchell s in theSouth West Pacific theatre of World War II on low-level bombing raids. His unit was the 405th Flight Squadron, 38th Bomb Group, of theFifth Air Force . He earned theAsiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with six bronzeservice star s: (Luzon , Western Pacific,New Guinea ,Borneo ,China Sea offensive, and the air offensive ofJapan ). He was also decorated with theAmerican Campaign Medal and by the Philippine Government with thePhilippine Liberation Medal . [cite book|title=United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: A History: 1990–2002 / compiled by members of the Advisory Council to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in celebration of the court's twentieth anniversary|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit|year=2004|pages=133-4 |]He later went on to pursue his undergraduate degree at
North Texas State University , receiving a B.A. in 1949. He studied at both theSouth Texas College of Law and theBaylor Law School . After graduation from law school, he went into private practice in his hometown ofMarshall, Texas , and then moved on to public service a year later, serving as Assistant District Attorney forHarrison County, Texas and laterDistrict Attorney . He returned to private practice in Marshall, Texas in 1959 and remained there until his appointment to the CCPA in 1968 byLyndon Baines Johnson .Judge Baldwin was the author of "In re Moore" (444 F. 2d 572, 170 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 260 (Fed. Cir. 1987)), a
patent law case establishing the logicalasymmetry of the "prior invention" standard between patent interference claims and Rule 131 affidavits. Judge Baldwin retired from the bench on April 8, 1991 and died inShreveport, Louisiana on April 20, 2002. [ [http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/uGetInfo?jid=86 "Federal Judicial Center official biography: Judge Phillip Benjamin Baldwin"] . Retrieved March 20, 2008.]References
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