BIO 2015: IPR not a ‘death squad’, says former PTAB judge

Scott Kamholz (pictured below), a former judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, recently returned to law firm Foley Hoag as partner. LSIPR spoke to him at this year’s BIO International Convention, where he explained why the inter-partes review is not a “death squad” for patents.

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