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2010 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2010)

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Michael Meehan: Increasing Certainty and Harnessing Private Information in the U.S. Patent System:
A Proposal for Reform


Increasing Certainty and Harnessing Private

     Information in the U.S. Patent System:

                   A Proposal for Reform


DR. MICHAEL MEEHAN


                               CITE AS: 2010 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 1




























      0 2010, Dr. Michael Meehan. Michael Meehan received his J.D. with distinction from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in
computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the tutelage of the Turing Award and National
Medal of Technology winner, Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Dr. Meehan clerked for the Honorable Judge William Curtis Bryson of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He was a researcher in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University as well
as research labs in Italy, Switzerland, and the U.S. He has several years of private sector experience in patent law and computer
science. He is currently an associate at Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear LLP, focusing on patent law. The work and opinions
expressed herein are those of Dr. Meehan, not those of the court or Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, and do not reflect any
non-pubhc knowledge obtained at the court or Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP. Dr. Meehan would like to thank Mark
Lemley and Paul Goldstein for their thoughtful insights.


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