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Brenda Sandburg

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New York, NY
Brenda covers FDA regulatory policy and legal issues, including patent suits, Supreme Court cases, and government investigations, as well as developments at the US Patent and Trademark Office and Federal Trade Commission. Between stints at the Pink Sheet, she was a reporter for America Lawyer Magazine and a daily legal newspaper in San Francisco where she won several awards, including first place in investigative reporting for an article about the emergence of patent trolls. She is based in New York City.

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