Public Patent Foundation attorney inflated his bio
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 12, 2004 09:39 AM
Daniel Ravicher, the founder of pubpat.org and part of OSRM seems to have told some half truths about his legal experience. From Forbes.com:
OSRM's team includes<nobr> <wbr></nobr>..."lead patent counsel" Daniel Ravicher, a 29-year-old lawyer in private practice who last year started a foundation that claims half of the patents in the United States are illegitimate.
Ravicher, who performed the patent analysis that turned up Linux's 283 possible patent violations, claims on his Web site that he has "extensive experience litigating, licensing, prosecuting and otherwise counseling clients with respect to patents." In fact, he has three years of experience as an associate at two law firms in New York and has never acted as lead counsel on any patent litigation.
Ravicher's online bio also claims that he "practiced law" at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, one of the country's most prestigious law firms. Actually, he spent eight weeks at Skadden as a summer intern while he was still attending law school.
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Public Patent Foundation attorney inflated his bio
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 12, 2004 09:39 AMOSRM's team includes<nobr> <wbr></nobr>..."lead patent counsel" Daniel Ravicher, a 29-year-old lawyer in private practice who last year started a foundation that claims half of the patents in the United States are illegitimate.
Ravicher, who performed the patent analysis that turned up Linux's 283 possible patent violations, claims on his Web site that he has "extensive experience litigating, licensing, prosecuting and otherwise counseling clients with respect to patents." In fact, he has three years of experience as an associate at two law firms in New York and has never acted as lead counsel on any patent litigation.
Ravicher's online bio also claims that he "practiced law" at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, one of the country's most prestigious law firms. Actually, he spent eight weeks at Skadden as a summer intern while he was still attending law school.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/08/02/cz_dl<nobr>_<wbr></nobr> 0802linux.html
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