Intellectual Property Law

Patent Troll Tracker Revealed.
  Per this post, a fellow patent law blogger known as the “Troll Tracker” has revealed himself to be Rick Frenkel, an in-house patent attorney for Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, California...

Ray Niro Offers $5,000 for Identity of Author of Troll Tracker Blog
It appears that infamous Chicago patent attorney Ray Niro has offered $5,000 for anyone who will identify the author of the Patent Troll Tracker, which Niro apparently believes has made uncharitable comments about him...

Patent haiku contest over at Troll Tracker
Was interested to see that Troll Tracker is running a patent haiku contest next week with the categories being: Ray Niro Ray Niro's client GPH's JPEG-on-a-website patent Scott Harris James Beauregard Parker Eastern District of Texas and (my personal favorite)...

Albritton v. Patent Troll Tracker: Patently-Os Subpoena
I have now received a nonparty subpoena in Eric Albritton's defamation case against Cisco and the Patent Troll Tracker. The requests are quite broad. Blog commentators may want to check Request Number 2 that could require disclosure of their information...

Albritton v. Patent Troll Tracker
Thomas Claburn in InformationWeek recently published an article about the defamation cases by Eastern District of Texas attorney Eric Albritton against Rick Frenkel in his role as the Patent Troll Tracker, Cisco, and others...

Revealed Patent Blogger, and Employer, Sued for Defamation
WSJ colleague Bobby White, who covers Cisco from San Francisco, passed along this update on the Patent Troll Tracker saga: Late last month, we posted on Rick Frenkel, a lawyer and the director of IP litigation at Cisco who outed himself as the author of the widely-read Patent Troll Tracker blog...

Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

DRAM Patent
ProMOS Technologies and Mosel Vitelic pay MOSAID Technologies an undisclosed patent infringement settlement.

Sony
to Pay $18.5 Million For Patent Infringment

Qualcomm Settles Patent Suit for $891 Million

The Princeton Review
$2.6 million settlement reached in patent infringement case.