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Hakeem Jeffries: “I was hesitant at the very beginning of this hearing to use the word patent trolls, thinking that perhaps it was an…”

On the recordMarch 13, 2013
I was hesitant at the very beginning of this hearing to use the word patent trolls, thinking that perhaps it was an unnecessarily aggressive expression.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries discusses his initial reluctance to label certain litigants as patent trolls.

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