Cisco intellectual property lawyer http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/255217146/%3Ca href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/23b/780">Rick Frenkel is a case study in how not to mix your personal blog with your day job. Frenkel wrote the anonymous http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/255217146/%3Ca href="http://trolltracker.blogspot.com/">Patent Troll Tracker blog about "those thought to opportunistically act against alleged patent infringements," http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/255217146/%3Ca href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/255217146/%3Ca href="http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2008/0407/044a.html?partner=yahoomag">reports Forbes. Eventually, Frenkel blogged about a case in which Cisco was the defendant. Guess what happened?
The blog suggested that attorneys for the plaintiff, ESN, which holds a telecom patent, persuaded a courthouse clerk to switch the suit's filing date to a more favorable one. Days after Frenkel's unmasking, ESN Texas attorneys T. John Ward Jr. and Eric Albritton filed separate defamation actions in state court against Cisco and Frenkel. Ground for suing Cisco? When Frenkel unveiled his identity, he wrote that his "direct manager" knew about his blogging.
That may not be enough to immunize Cisco from any potential liability.
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