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Howard Berman: “Perhaps the place to start at this hearing is not the question of whether patent trolls are fact or fiction, but rather…”

On the recordJune 14, 2006
Perhaps the place to start at this hearing is not the question of whether patent trolls are fact or fiction, but rather the definitional question of what is a patent troll.
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Howard Berman
California

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Berman emphasizes the need to define patent trolls in the ongoing debate.

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