The fine line between abuse and fair use at the PTAB

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The fine line between abuse and fair use at the PTAB

May 27 2015
Kyle Bass

Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass has outraged the pharma and biotech industries by seeking to invalidate their patents at the PTAB, with some observers linking his attacks to short-selling of company stocks. Michael Loney reports on a controversy that goes to the heart of the US patent system

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