Former Trump aide Michael Caputo leads patent protest

Published August 11, 2017 8:17pm ET



Former Trump campaign consultant Michael Caputo joined at least a dozen inventors from around the country to burn patents on the north steps of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, protesting procedures from a newly formed administrative board.

“This is something the president must care about,” Caputo told the Washington Examiner just after the Friday demonstration. “This is something the president’s base must care about, because his base is all ‘Davids’ and Washington is all Goliaths.”

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