Patent Law

Rogue Blogger

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

BeavisWeek has a well written story by Michael Orey, Busting a Rogue Blogger, about a dross patent blogger who pulled the wool for a while. "Cisco General Counsel Mark Chandler even cited the blog as a good independent source of information while in Washington lobbying for changes to patent law that would rein in trolls, unaware he was plugging the work of a Cisco employee." It's like the Bush administration churning propaganda to the press about the situation in Iraq before the war, then quoting their published reports from duped papers, such as the New York Times and Washington Post, as corroborating news. Children playing grown-up games.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on March 29, 2008 (boomark / email).