For my taste, even then-Judge Rader was far too patentee-friendly. For example, I was
outraged when he called the panels Patent Trial and Appeal Board patent death squads instead of appreciating the important work they do to weed out patents. Most patents are invalid as granted. The patent system is so dysfunctional (with patent offices incentivizing their examiners to grant ever more patents, particularly to mass filers who receive platinum customer service) that patent litigation has basically become a crapshoot activity and most patents are junk patents the non-material equivalent of pollution.
But I also heard good things about then-Judge Rader from tech companies, particularly about his approach to damages awards in
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