How Congress plans to reel in Bass

Kyle Bass, a prominent hedge fund manager, has recently caused a stir among the pharmaceutical and biotechnology community. He and his entities are engaging in a strategy of using a fairly new process, the inter partes review (IPR), for challenging patents, allegedly to assist in a financial scheme for shorting the patent owner’s stock.

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