Troll Tracker’s Identity Revealed :(

02/24/2008 Mises Wire Stephan Kinsella

I posted previously about patent attorney Ray Niro threatening to sue the anonymous Troll Tracker (who repeatedly highlighted various patent lawsuits Niro was filing) for violating a patent by putting JPG images on his site (yep), and creepily offering a bounty to reveal Troll Tracker’s identity (Troll Tracker [Why People Hate Lawyers]). Looks like Niro’s ploy finally worked--it’s an in-house patent attorney at Cisco, Rick Frenkel. Keep up the good work, Rick!

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