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The late Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Giles Sutherland Rich’s dad, G. Willard, was well aware of the New York Patent Law Association (as our association was previously known) before his son may have even dreamed of following in his father’s footsteps by becoming a patent lawyer. In fact, G. Willard Giles was one of 258 attendees at the NYIPLA’s first annual dinner in honor of the federal judiciary at the Waldorf-Astoria on December 6, 1922. That dinner marked the beginning of a long and hallowed tradition of honoring federal judges each year at an NYIPLA dinner – a tradition that continues to this day.

At the first NYIPLA dinner, G. Willard was in good company. The guest list included luminaries from the federal bench, including Augustus and Learned Hand. It also included Archibald Cox, a member of the NYIPLA’s Board of Governors and father of Archibald Cox, Jr., special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal. Perhaps not without irony, Archibald, Jr. began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Learned Hand.