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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jan. 11, 2008

Dispelling the Urban Legends of Patent Mediation, One by One

Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Mediators in patent cases need not have technical backgrounds to help settle cases effectively.

FORUM COLUMN

By Jeff Kichaven
This article appears on Page 6.

      An urban legend is commonly defined as "an often-lurid story or anecdote that is based on hearsay and widely circulated as true." Like the one about alligators living in the sewers. Everyone has heard it, but it's just not true.
      But what about the one that says "to mediate a patent case, a mediator has to be an expert in sci...

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