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A Former Patent Examiner’s Perspective On The Current “Patent Hubbub”

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http://techcrunch.com – Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by G. Nagesh Rao, an IP-Law and Technology Commercialization Strategist based out of San Francisco and Washington DC. He most recently worked for The City of Los Angeles’s CleanTech Initiatives and before that as a US Patent Examiner and Senior Policy Advisor for The US Department of Commerce’s Patent & Trademark Office and Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. On the surface patent law might seem like a mundane subject, but it is actually an important type of law that is not properly appreciated. To illustrate this point consider t (IT news)

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