Newman Hints She Could Sit on District Court While Sidelined (1)

Pauline Newman, the 96-year-old Federal Circuit judge suspended by her colleagues from being assigned new appellate cases, expressed interest in presiding over a patent trial at the district court level.

“I have an open invitation from one circuit, in fact,” she told Steven Caltrider, chief intellectual property counsel at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in an hour-long interview aired Oct. 13 as part of the the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Law section’s fall virtual institute.

Newman was suspended from new assignments for one year, or until she complies with orders to submit to medical testing related to an investigation into ...