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.
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.
[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.
[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.