Not long ago, the biggest threat to an IP blogger was sarcasm. But as the medium has gained respect and influence, the stakes have become higher.

Consider Texas-based IP lawyer Eric Albritton’s libel suit against Richard Frenkel for writing on his now-defunct Patent Troll Tracker blog that Albritton had conspired with a court clerk to alter court documents. Frenkel, now of counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, wrote the post anonymously when he was an IP lawyer at Cisco Systems, Inc.

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