Up until February, no one knew that Rick Frenkel, an in - house lawyer at Cisco by day, was also the anonymous blogger behind the controversial Patent Troll Tracker site, where he regularly outed companies (and their lawyers) that he considered to be patent trolls — a pejorative term for one who enforces his or her patents against alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic. (legalblogwatch.typepad.com)
Duty to communicate contact information of alleged infringers (names, postal adresses, e-mail addresses, etc.)(decree of July 26, 2010) (slaw.ca)
The decision removes one of the tools in a patent plaintiff's shed to bring additional pressure against alleged infringers, and plaintiffs will have to refrain from filing lawsuit in state's that have a tangential relationship to the defendant's home jurisdictions. (csipblog.com)