Richard H. Stern (September 9, 1931) is an attorney and law professor.[1]
Born in New York City, Stern received an A.B. cum laude from Columbia College in 1953 and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Columbia University School of Engineering in 1954. He served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1956,[2] then returned to academia and earned an LL.B. at Yale Law School, graduating cum laude and Order of the Coif, in 1959.
Justice Byron White at the United States Supreme Court selected him as his first law clerk, upon appointment to the Court. Stern served as Justice White's clerk during the October 1961 and October 1962 terms.[3]
Stern has been a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School since 1990 and was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School in 1974. He is the author of Semiconductor Chip Protection[4] and articles on antitrust, computer software, patent, and copyright law.[5] Since 1982 he has been Legal Editor and a member of the Board of Editors of IEEE Micro, a magazine published by the IEEE Computer Society, and author of the magazine's Micro Law column.
He was chief of the Patent Section and then the Intellectual Property Section in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1970 to 1978. He has also served as an official at the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. He is now of counsel at Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans & Figel, LLP, in Washington D.C.[2]