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Interesting resource - intellirights.com

When searching for information on the judges I came across this website. It has a searching function where you can put in a judges name and view where they came down in certain cases. It only looks like it covers cases since 2009 unfortunately but I did find it interesting to glance over some of the cases each of the 3 judges was involved in and what side they were on. Here is a link directly to a search for cases bryson was involved in:
http://www.intellirights.com/cms2/index.php?searchword=bryson&ordering=newest&searchphrase=any&limit=0&Itemid=76&option=com_search

Looking over what is available here it seems to me like newman and bryson tend to side with the patent holder whereas mayer tends to go against them. This is a link where mayer sided with the majority opinion that a patent was not valid and newman "vigorously dissented".
http://www.intellirights.com/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66:bayer-vs-barr-cafc-aug-5-2009&catid=37:case&Itemid=67.
Here is another case where Mayer and Newman disagreed and in fact seemed to be on the far opposite ends of the spectrum: http://www.patentabilityblog.com/2009/05/07/solicitor-general-opposes-review-of-bilski-patentable-subject-matter-test/

However, here is a case where Mayer and Bryson agreed that seemed to be for patent holders:
http://www.intellirights.com/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69:upitt-vs-hedrick-jul-23-2009&catid=37:case&Itemid=67

While trying to find out more about mayer I learned he used to be chief judge but in 2010 took senior status: http://inventivestep.net/2010/06/01/former-chief-judge-h-robert-mayer-to-take-senior-status/. Senior status, a form of semi-retirement is explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_status.

NukeJohn - I think I remember you saying in a recent post that Mayer seemed to generally be for the patent holder in your experience and you mentioned something about a case with Rambus. I would very much appreciate if you could talk more about that/point to some of the opinions as right now I am uncomforable with Mayer (although thankfully feel good about newman and bryson). I was extrememly impressed with Newman after listening to the video GBR posted a link to - seems thougtful, honorable and very intelligent; what a judge should be.