Richard Frenkel

Richard "Rick" G. Frenkel (born 1966 or 1967 ) was an in-house intellectual property counsel and director of intellectual property at Cisco Systems. He was once the anonymous author of the Patent Troll Tracker blog, focusing on the subject of "patent trolls" by Chicago attorney Raymond Niro Sr. in the entry titled "Live by anonymity, die by anonymity",

Trial The Albritton case went to trial in Tyler, Texas on September 14, 2009. After Judge Richard A. Schell ruled that Albritton had to prove actual malice to be eligible for punitive damages, the litigation settled. The Ward case—which was filed against Cisco and not Frenkel—settled in January 2010.

Career change Frenkel left Cisco in August 2008 to join the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as a patent litigator. He was a partner with the firm. At the time he joined the firm, he said he was done with blogging.