Dennis Crouch

Who is Dennis Crouch?

Dennis David Crouch is an American patent attorney who worked for McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP in Chicago, Illinois, until 2007. In 2007, he accepted a post of associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Missouri.

In 1997, he received his B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. In 2003, he received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, and passed the Illinois bar examination and was admitted to practice in Illinois in the same year. 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. He runs the "Patently-O Patent Blog", a patent law blog that features analysis on current Federal Circuit law and other subjects. According to BusinessWeek, the Patently-O blog is the most widely read patent law blog. 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."