The Top 25 Patent Blogs

Written by Gene Quinn
President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc.
Patent Attorney, Reg. No. 44,294
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Posted: Feb 11, 2009 @ 3:06 pm

Last Updated: February 21, 2009. This will be the last update of this list for now, but I will revisit it in several months again.

I was wondering what the top patent blogs were so to inject some sense of objectivity I did some search using Technorati, which was not as easy as I had anticipated. While Technorati is the leading blog search engine and most comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere, it is not exactly easy to figure out what the top blogs are in any given area. For example, there are a lot of blogs that write occasionally about patents, but that does not make them a patent blog (at least in my opinion). Additionally, not all patent blogs have identified themselves by using the tag “patent”, “patents” or “uspto” in the Technorati description section.

I did go through all blogs using the tags “patent”, “patents” or “uspto,” and did some additional digging and checking to try and capture as many as I could find that are true patent blogs. After eliminating blogs that only occasionally discussed patent matters, and cutting off this “top list” at blogs within the top 1 million on Technorati, I was left with 25 blogs.

Technorati Rank is based upon Technorati Authority. Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to another blog within the last six months. The blog with the highest Technorati Authority is the #1 ranked blog. According to the State of the Blogosphere 2008, there are over 133 million blogs indexed by Technorait, so all of the blogs listed below are easily within the top 1% of all blogs indexed by Technorati.

If you have a patent blog in the top 1 million blogs on Technorati send me an e-mail and I will update the list.

Without further ado, the top 25 patent blogs are:

Patently-O - Technorati Rank 21,202
Patent Baristas - Technorati Rank 61,134
IPWatchdog - Technorati Rank 80,245
Against Monopoly - Technorati Rank 80,245
Patently Silly – Technorati Rank 90,082
Chicago IP Litigation Blog - Technorati Rank 117,073
PHOSITA - Technorati Rank 101,726
Spicy IP - Technorati Rank 129,347
PLI Patent Practice Center - Technorati Rank 132,753
Duncan Bucknell Company’s IP Think Tank - Technorati Rank 136,348
Patent Prospector - Technorati Rank 152,448
Securing Innovation - Technorati Rank 162,007
Peter Zura’s 271 Patent Blog - Technorati Rank 163,794
The Invent Blog- Technorati Rank 167,214
Promote the Progress - Technorati Rank 198,166
BlawgIT- Technorati Rank 204,976
I/P Updates- Technorati Rank 213,371
IP NewsFlash - Technorati Rank 221,777
Orange Book Blog - Technorati Rank 221,777
The IP Factor - Technorati Rank 250,588
Philip Brook’s Patent Infringement Updates- Technorati Rank 273,434
Patent Docs - Technorati Rank 300,413
Antiticpate This! - Technorati Rank 351,677
Patent Fools(now operated by IPWatchdog.com) – Technorati Rank 351,092
IPJUR – Technorati Rank 420,564
Patentably Defined - Technorati Rank 614,978
Steve van Dulke’s Patent Blog – Technorati Rank 676,101
IP Spotlight - Technorati Rank 752,199

UPDATED February 13, 2009 to add PHOSITA, so now we are up to 26 patent blogs in the top 1 million on Technorati.

UPDATED February 19, 2009 to add BlawgIT, so now we are up to 27 patent blogs in the top 1 million on Technorati.

UPDATED February 21, 2009 to add IPJUR, so now we are up to 28 patent blogs in the top 1 million on Technorati.

About the Author

Eugene R. Quinn, Jr.
President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc.
US Patent Attorney (Reg. No. 44,294)

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University
J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center
L.L.M. in Intellectual Property, Franklin Pierce Law Center

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Gene is a US Patent Attorney, Law Professor and the founder of IPWatchdog.com. He teaches patent bar review courses and is a member of the Board of Directors of the United Inventors Association. Gene has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times, CNN Money and various other newspapers and magazines worldwide

About the Author

Eugene R. Quinn, Jr.
President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc.
US Patent Attorney (Reg. No. 44,294)
Zies, Widerman & Malek

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University
J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center
L.L.M. in Intellectual Property, Franklin Pierce Law Center

Send me an e-mail

Gene Quinn is a US Patent Attorney, law professor and the founder of IPWatchdog.com. He is also a principal lecturer in the top patent bar review course in the nation, which helps aspiring patent attorneys and patent agents prepare themselves to pass the patent bar exam. Known by many as “The IPWatchdog,” Gene started the widely popular intellectual property website IPWatchdog.com in 1999, and since that time the site has had millions of unique visitors. Gene has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times, CNN Money, NPR and various other newspapers and magazines worldwide. He represents individuals, small businesses and start-up corporations. As an electrical engineer with a computer engineering focus his specialty is electronic and computer devices, Internet applications, software and business methods.