Phillip Benjamin Baldwin

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Phillip Benjamin Baldwin (b. Dec. 23, 1924, Marshall, TX, d. April 20, 2002, Shreveport, LA) served, from 1968 to 1991, as a judge on U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, later to become the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He was an Army Air Corps Pilot during World War II, from 1943 to 1946, and later went on to pursue his undergraduate degree at North Texas State University, receiving a B.A. in 1949. He studied at both the South Texas College of Law and the Baylor School of Law. After graduation from law school, he went into private practice in his hometown of Marshall, Texas, and then moved on to public service a year later, serving as Assistant District Attorney for Harrison County, Texas and later District Attorney. He returned to private practice in Marshall, Texas in 1959 and remained there until his appointment to the C.C.P.A. in 1968. He retired from the bench on April 8, 1991 and died in Shreveport, Louisiana on April 20, 2002.^[1] 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 logical assymetry of the "prior invention" standard between patent interference claims and Rule 131 affadavits.

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