The premise of the conversation was to identify solutions for a better patent system that would improve the current state of the system without empowering bad actors, such as patent trolls. I begin the conversation offering each of the panelists an open mic to start so they can set forth their preliminary thoughts… Ultimately, Judge Newman reached her conclusion: “I was wrong. We should not have formed the Federal Circuit and taken it away from the regional circuits. Maybe we should have looked elsewhere… And I have a very simple solution. We give the patent cases back to the regional circuits.”

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