Video interview: Paul Michel on the Shield Act, AIA and US Supreme Court

April 02, 2013

The Shield Act is "entirely unnecessary"; the America Invents Act was a missed opportunity; and two recent US Supreme Court decisions were "extremely poorly reasoned and very harmful to a well-functioning system"

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