Ben Davidson quoted by Wall Street Journal on mounting criticism of Federal Circuit’s exclusive jurisdiction over patent law

Ben Davidson quoted by Wall Street Journal on mounting criticism of Federal Circuit’s exclusive jurisdiction over patent law. “Critics Fault Court’s Grip On Appeals For Patents” (Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2014): “‘Ninety percent of the time, the court is dealing with issues that aren’t controversial or hot-button, and on those, we get uniformity and predictability,’ said Ben Davidson, a patent litigator in Los Angeles and former patent examiner for the Patent and Trademark Office. ‘Without the Federal Circuit, a lot of practitioners would be lost.'”Read…