{{Short description|American legal scholar}} {{About|the attorney|the bassist|Dennis Crouch (bassist)}} '''Dennis David Crouch'''<ref name="Illinois lawyer registration">{{cite web |url=http://www.iardc.org/ldetail.asp?id=450451374 |title=Lawyer Search: Attorney's Registration and Public Disciplinary Record for Dennis David Crouch |publisher=Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois |date=2009-04-13 |accessdate=2009-04-13 |archive-date=2016-01-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114062308/http://www.iardc.org/ldetail.asp?id=450451374 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (born April 30, 1975 <ref name="Cohen">{{cite web |url=http://www.law.com/jsp/law/careercenter/CareerCenterArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1147251931103 |title=Associate's IP Blog Is Patently Good Publicity |last=Cohen |first=Alan |date=May 11, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828102714/http://www.law.com/jsp/law/careercenter/CareerCenterArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1147251931103 |archive-date=August 28, 2013}}</ref> in Columbia, South Carolina<ref>[http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/Lawyer_Locator/Search_Lawyer_Locator/search_result.xml?PG=0&STYPE=N&FNAME=Dennis&LNAME=Crouch&FN=&CN=&STS=&CRY=&bc=1) Private Practice Lawyer Profile for Dennis D. Crouch, martindale.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155634/http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/Lawyer_Locator/Search_Lawyer_Locator/search_result.xml?PG=0&STYPE=N&FNAME=Dennis&LNAME=Crouch&FN=&CN=&STS=&CRY=&bc=1) |date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref>) is an American patent attorney who worked for McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (MBHB) in Chicago, Illinois, until 2007.<ref name="blog8-05">Dennis Crouch, [http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2007/05/thank_you_mbhb_.html ''Thank you MBHB, Hello Missouri!''], Patently-O: Patent Law Blog, May 8, 2007.</ref> In 2007, he accepted a post of associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Missouri.<ref name="blog8-05"/>

Crouch graduated with a B.S.E. in mechanical and aerospace engineering a certificate in engineering management systems from Princeton University in 1997. Along with Kotaro Akita, he completed a senior thesis, titled "webrisk!: An Autonomous Learning System on the Internet", under the supervision of Minh Quang Phan.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Akita|first=Kotaro|last2=Crouch|first2=Dennis|date=1997|title=webrisk!: An Autonomous Learning System on the Internet|url=http://dataspace.princeton.edu/jspui/handle/88435/dsp01r781wj08x}}</ref> In 2003, he received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School,<ref name="Cohen"/> and passed the Illinois bar examination and was admitted to practice in Illinois in the same year.<ref name="Illinois lawyer registration"/> He also passed the USPTO registration examination, most likely in 2003, and was registered to practice as a patent agent in February 2004 and as a patent attorney in August 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oedci.uspto.gov/OEDCI/details.do?regisNum=55091 |title=Registered Attorney/Agent Search: Dennis D. Crouch |publisher=Office of Enrollment and Discipline, United States Patent and Trademark Office |accessdate=2009-07-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213051933/https://oedci.uspto.gov/OEDCI/details.do?regisNum=55091 |archivedate=2013-12-13 }}</ref><ref>At that time, the USPTO registration examination was only offered in April and October. The last examination before he was registered to practice before the USPTO was the October 2003 examination, for which the results were sent to examinees in December 2003. {{cite web|url=http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/oed/examresults.htm |title=Exam Results | publisher=Office of Enrollment and Discipline, United States Patent and Trademark Office |accessdate=2009-07-13 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080621151548/http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/oed/examresults.htm |archivedate = June 21, 2008}}</ref>

==''Patently-O''== Crouch runs the "''Patently-O Patent Blog''",<ref>"Patently-O is short for 'patently ... obvious'". in IPKat, [https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2009/04/friday-fling.html ''Friday fling''], 3 April 2009. Consulted on April 3, 2009.</ref> a patent law blog that features analysis on current Federal Circuit law and other subjects. According to BusinessWeek, as of 2008 the Patently-O blog was the most widely read patent law blog,<ref name="bw">Michael Orey, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080415152648/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_14/b4078075822107_page_2.htm ''Busting a Rogue Blogger''], BusinessWeek, March 27, 2008. Consulted on April 4, 2008.</ref> and was included in the American Bar Association Journal blog's inaugural patent blog "hall of fame" in 2012.<ref>ABA Journal blog. Dec 1, 2012. [http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/introducing_our_inaugural_blawg_100_hall_of_fame Introducing Our Inaugural Blawg 100 Hall of Fame]</ref> Crouch is reported to be "fairly obsessive about timeliness, checking the Federal Circuit's site when it is updated each morning and immediately noting new cases on his blog."<ref name="Cohen"/>

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==External links== *[http://www.patentlyo.com ''Patently-O: Patent Law Blog''] *[http://law.missouri.edu/faculty/directory/crouchd.html Dennis D. Crouch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012084716/http://law.missouri.edu/faculty/directory/crouchd.html |date=2011-10-12 }} on the University of Missouri School of Law web site *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070314104404/http://www.mbhb.com/DennisCrouch Former biography at ''MBHB''] (through The Internet Archive)

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