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Intellectual Property

Apr. 8, 2010

Central District Struggles In Its Role as Top Patent Venue

At the opening of a self-help legal clinic last year, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz of Los Angeles told pro se litigants he empathized with their efforts to represent themselves in federal court without legal training.

By Craig Anderson

Daily Journal Staff Writer

At the opening of a self-help legal clinic last year, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz of Los Angeles told pro se litigants he empathized with their efforts to represent themselves in federal court without legal training.

"That's the same feeling I have when I see a patent case," Matz said, drawing chuckles from a crowd of attorneys and judges, according to sev...

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