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Daniel "Dan" Ravicher serves as executive director of the
Public Patent Foundation
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(PUBPAT). In 1997 he graduated ''
magna cum laude'' with University Honors from the
University of South Florida
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with a
B.S.C.E., and earned a
J.D. in 2000 from the
University of Virginia School of Law where he was a Franklin O’Blechman Scholar, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award recipient, and an Editor of the ''Virginia Journal of Law and Technology''.
See also
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Software patents and free software
Opposition to software patents is widespread in the free software community. In response, various mechanisms have been tried to defuse the perceived problem.
Positions from the community
Community leaders such as Richard Stallman, Alan Cox (co ...
- on which he performed a noteworthy study
References
External links
LWN Interview: Dan Ravicher on derived worksDaniel Ravicher's Cardozo Law School Profile page
American patent attorneys
GNU people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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