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Dennis David Crouch[1] (born April 30, 1975 [2] in Columbia, South Carolina[3]) is an American patent attorney who worked for McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP (MBHB) in Chicago, Illinois, until 2007.[4] In 2007, he accepted a post of associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Missouri.[4]
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.[5] In 2003, he received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School,[2] and passed the Illinois bar examination and was admitted to practice in Illinois in the same year.[1] 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.[6][7]
Crouch runs the "Patently-O Patent Blog",[8] 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,[9] and was included in the American Bar Association Journal blog's inaugural patent blog "hall of fame" in 2012.[10] 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."[2]
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