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by Zachary Silbersher

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The lesson from Theranos is that investors do not know how to read a patent.

Theranos’ patents may have assured investors that the company was a good bet, but that does not mean those patents were a failure of the patent system.  Rather, the patents illustrate a deficiency of IP literacy.  Investors—and recent commentators still—have taken the patents to mean something they are not.  Indeed, the patents—and the file histories behind them—have been public for years. Those patents and file histories revealed many red flags that were apparently ignored. 

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