Beware the Skeptisaurus, says Judge Rader
18 October 2009
Eileen McDermott, Washington DC
Recounting a talk he gave in Brazil in which an audience member claimed that the patent system no longer works, Judge Randall Rader of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday dubbed such patent creatures “Skeptisauri,” whose understanding of IP is “outdated"
Rader delivered his lively address to a room filled to capacity at a luncheon talk at the AIPLA Annual Meeting on Friday, titled "Trolls and Other Creatures of the Night!"
He said that so-called Skeptisauri tend to misunderstand the patent system as "an exclusive, limiting legal doctrine," but that this view is outdated, since the...
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