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John Conyers: “The patent law is not efficient, the other reason that we are here, 700,000 backlog.”

On the recordApril 15, 2013
The patent law is not efficient, the other reason that we are here, 700,000 backlog.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Conyers highlights inefficiencies in patent law due to a significant backlog of cases.

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