**Daniel Nazer** (@danielnazer) is a senior staff attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He works to keep patent laws - and software patents in particular - from interfering with freedom to code and tinker. Before joining EFF, Daniel was a residential fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. He has also worked at the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project and in private practice at Keker and Van Nest, LLP.