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Stephan Kinsella | Patent Attorney, Writer & Scholar
Stephan Kinsella is a registered patent attorney and libertarian theorist
Interview Highlights
Childhood interests: “I used to take televisions apart … and figure out what made them work”
On choosing a career: “If you are generally intelligent, competent, and hard-working and have the right values it’s not just one thing your suited for.”
On patent trolls: “this is just another example of the problem with intellectual property in general and patents specifically … patent trolling is just an implication of having patents in the first place”
On finding him: “I’m ‘nskinsella’ everywhere”
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Advice for Law School students: Find a niche and pursue it early
Advice for small technology companies: Consider publishing as a patent defense strategy or patent defense insurance
Productivity tool of choice: J2 – online fax service; Sugarsync.com – synchronizes folders on your computer to a cloud account; carbonite.com- back-up services
References & Links
http://c4sif.org/2011/08/the-patent-defense-league-and-defensive-patent-pooling/
http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/07/advice-for-prospective-libertarian-law-students/
http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/career-advice-by-north/
http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/07/an-anti-patent-patent-attorney/