It's always fun to open up lwn and find a link to article about yourself near the top. This article contains a number of small bugs. None of the quotes are verbatim. In the spirit of free software, this document contains patches to these bugs.
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Raph Levien is the model of an independent inventor. The Berkeley, Calif., software developer says he was probably 10 years old when he filed for his first patent. I live in Benicia now. I was 10 when I sent the disclosure for my first patent to the patent attorney. The patent wasn't actually filed until I was 12.