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“Chuck Talk: Dan, I am pleased to be able to
interview you. Can you tell us a little bit about your background
and how you came to be the Executive Director of the Public Patent
Foundation?“Dan Ravicher: I am a registered patent
attorney with a engineering background who, before founding PUBPAT,
practiced patent law with several firms in Manhattan and served
Circuit Judge Randall R. Rader of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit (the highest patent court other than the Supreme
Court). While in private practice I increasingly confronted
evidence of the patent system harming the public’s interests, which
are not being adequately represented. As such, once I secured
sufficient financing to do so, I left private practice and founded
PUBPAT to represent those interests. As for why one would give up a
lucrative private practice to do public service work, I’d say that
such drive is in my BIOS…”