Patent Law

Quinn the Eskimo

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Charming Gene Quinn of IPWatchdog is running a hot streak. An anonymous comment crowning Quinn "the King of Douchebags" put him enough out of sorts to change his web site to admit only registered supplicants to comment on his blog. One can only speculate as to his apoplexy if he instead had been titled the Queen of Douche Bags. Quinn's expressed desire is "to encourage an atmosphere free of the petty and vile Internet discourse that so many traffic in these days." Apparently, someone else has the same goal. Invent Help is suing Quinn for "false and misleading claims in their Internet advertising." Invent Help and Quinn compete to service inventors. Quinn opines that "they apparently do not like the fact that I have written about invention submission scams..." Apparently not.

On a personal note, months ago I kindly requested that Gene take me off his mass email list, which he saw fit to put me on without asking. He curtly replied, noting that he would take me off his blogroll also. Petty pique. Best wishes, Gene.

To quell untoward speculation: this entry title is merely a continuing foist at being artsy-fartsy. Astute readers will recall that Quinn the Eskimo is a Bob Dylan song. The blog entry title has no particular intimation.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on January 25, 2010 (boomark / email).