Video: How Chinese firms finance litigation disrupting intellectual property in biotech and food distribution system

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The commodification of lawsuit funding […] opens the door to even more bad faith participation in the justice system.

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Those gambling on the outcomes of our judicial system should be able to take the risk, but we deserve to know who they are.

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