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Nature Biotechnology 26, 369 (1 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/nbt0408-369

Dan Ravicher

Crispin Littlehales

Dan Ravicher is determined to protect us all from patents that thwart, rather than advance, the public good. Working alone in his bare bones office of the New York-based Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), the nonprofit he established in 2003, the 33-year-old attorney has gone to battle with holders of some of the most influential and potentially lucrative life science patents.