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Law Practice

Dec. 10, 2008

Truth Is a Defense, Former 'Troll Tracker' Blogger Says

Rick Frenkel, the one-time "Patent Troll Tracker" who was sued earlier this year along with his former employer, Cisco Systems, for allegedly defamatory blog posts, has a simple response to a Texas attorney who filed a lawsuit against him: They were all true.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN JOSE - Rick Frenkel, the one-time "Patent Troll Tracker" who was sued earlier this year along with his former employer, Cisco Systems, for allegedly defamatory blog posts, has a simple response to a Texas attorney who filed a lawsuit against him: They were all true.

In a summary judgment motion filed during Thanksgiving week and unsealed on Friday, Cisco's attorney Charles Babcock, of Jackson Walker...

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