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Dick Durbin: We want to go after the real abusers in this, but we do not want to put a chilling effect on the patent system.

On the recordMarch 17, 2015
We want to go after the real abusers in this, but we do not want to put a chilling effect on the patent system.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin supports targeting patent abusers without harming the patent system.

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