The moral of this story is blogger beware, at least when it comes to blogging anonymously about litigation involving your employer.

Before Cisco Systems Inc. in-house lawyer Richard Frenkel outed himself in February as the Patent Troll Tracker blogger, he posted blog entries in October 2007 that alleged two East Texas lawyers conspired with the Eastern District Clerk’s Office to alter the filing date of an infringement suit. That suit was filed against Frenkel’s employer, Cisco.