“Damage apportionment,” and “post-grant review” probably won’t capture the hearts and minds of voters in a presidential election the way “a chicken in every pot” did.
But that doesn’t mean that the vagaries of patent reform — and other equally obscure legal issues near and dear to Silicon Valley — are being entirely ignored by the presidential hopefuls. In fact, the campaigns have reached into the Valley, calling on some of the local legal luminaries — not just for money, but for advice — as they hammer out their positions.
