Then they fight you…
by T. Colin Dodd
This is a real shame. Patent Troll Tracker was a great blog that did most of my work for me. Quite a loss.
The Daily Journal’s Tuesday edition (not linkable) reports that Troll Tracker author Rick Frenkel, and his employer Cisco, have been sued for defamation by two East Texas attorneys who are players in that district’s patent litigation scene, Eric Albritton and T. John Ward, Jr.
John “Johnny” Ward, Jr. is a Texas lawyer who has filed a large number of patent infringement lawsuits in recent years. Between January and mid-October of 2007, his name was attached to 54 separate lawsuits by my count; in all but four, he represented the plaintiff. He is also, as I reported in October, the son of Judge T. John Ward, the judge who is largely responsible for making the Eastern District of Texas a hotspot for patent litigation.
There’s a lot more on this, here.
March 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Patent trolls are the banme of the software industry. Their existence is one of the strongerst arguments for patent reform. When thyat happens, they ought to pass a law that will eventually allow others to go after these patent trolls for past actions. That last one may be tough to do, but boy do these sharks deserve to get a good beating!