Intellectual Property
Sep. 16, 2009
'Patent Troll' Blogger On Trial in Texas
Rick Frenkel, the former in-house Cisco Systems Inc. attorney who wrote an anonymous blog in 2007 accusing two Texas attorneys of altering documents in a patent case, went on trial Monday in the Lone Star State for defamation.
Daily Journal Staff Writer Rick Frenkel, the former in-house Cisco Systems Inc. attorney who wrote an anonymous blog in 2007 accusing two Texas attorneys of altering documents in a patent case, went on trial Monday in the Lone Star State for defamation. Eric Albritton, a Texas plaintiffs' attorney, sued Frenkel and then-employer Cisco for undisclosed damages because of a couple of Frenkel's blog posts that he wrote as the "Patent...
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