Dave Donoghue is one of a cadre of leading intellectual property law bloggers that have signed on recently to guest blog on the top patent blog, Patently-O. Also guest blogging this month, on Dennis Crouch's Patently-O, are many of the other top patent bloggers: Kevin Noonan of Patent Docs, Brett Trout of BlawgIT, Stephen Albainy-Jenei of Patent Baristas, and Joff Wild, Editor of IAM Magazine and the IAM Blog. Dennis has even got intellectual property blogger emeritus Jeremy Phillips grinning like a Cheshire cat at the prospect of writing an article for the top patent blog.

It's great to see this worldwide collaboration among the top patent blogs; bloggers who have learned the art of guest blogging and are showing others how it's done.

Here on Securing Innovation, IP.com is committed to a collaborative IP blog that is an integral part of the community of intellectual property professionals, attorneys, patent agents, examiners, strategists, and advisors. It's with a spirit of collaboration and mutual support that we've designed our corporate blog to feature a Guest Blogger with a prominent placement, rather than following the standard practice of including the guest blogger among the regular posts. This design gives the Guest Blogger a higher profile for a longer period than is usually the case on other blogs that publish guest authors. Contributed articles on Securing Innovation are also included in the permanent Guest Blogger Archives with a distinctive RSS feed for these featured articles. Looking at the lineup of featured guest bloggers, it makes a lot of sense to subscribe to this Guest Blog and add it to your favorite feed reader.

So far, we've featured the following Guest Blogger articles on Securing Innovation:

Remember Mr. Murphy When it Comes to Protecting Intellectual Property by Jason Shinn

Saving Your Intellectual Property by John Avellanet

Are Patents A Driver of Innovation or Just a Tax? by Stephen Albainy-Jenei

Should Management Be Involved In Patenting Decisions? by Clifford D. Hyra

Vote for the Top Patent Blogs by Gene Quinn

Technology Transfer Office Uses Workflow Software to Boost IP Management, Marketing by the Editor of Technology Transfer Tactics

August Carnival of Trust by R. David Donoghue

We're open to suggestions from bloggers who would like to be featured as a Guest Blogger here on Securing Innovation, the corporate blog of IP.com While we're not Patently-O and can't boast the traffic of, say, Patent Baristas, we are always keen to collaborate with IP Bloggers who have something interesting they'd like to share with readers of Securing Innovation and clients of IP.com who follow our corporate blog. We expect that several of the executives of our clients and customers, some of whom don't even have blogs, will want to publish an article in this forum of intellectual property professionals.

Got an idea for a post that you'd like us to publish or cross-post on Securing Innovation? Send an email to blog@ip.com and we'll be happy to discuss it with you. Nice people, we love cats and dogs.

For our readers who might be unfamiliar with the carnival of law blogs, Blawg Review is the blog carnival for everyone interested in law.

A peer-reviewed blog carnival, the host of each Blawg Review decides which of the submissions and recommended posts are suitable for inclusion in the presentation. And the host is encouraged to source another dozen or so interesting posts to fit with any special theme of that issue of Blawg Review. The host's personal selections usually include several that reflect the character and subject interests of the host blawg, recognizing that the regular readership of the blog should find some of the usual content, and new readers of the blog via Blawg Review ought to get some sense of the unique perspective and subject specialties of the host.

This isn't the first time it's been hosted on a business blog. Anita Campbell recently hosted Blawg Review #177, her third time hosting the so-called carnival of law blogs on her award-winning Small Business Trends blog.

And it's not the first time Blawg Review has been hosted on an Intellectual Property blog. Earlier this year, on National Inventor's Day, patent attorney Stephen Nipper hosted Blawg Review #146 at The Invent Blog to celebrate Thomas Edison's birthday

Just last week, Blawg Review #178 was hosted by Peter Black, a lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology on his blog, Freedom to Differ, and before that, the Chicago IP Litigation Law Blog played host to an Olympic-themed presentation of Blawg Review #173. Intellectual Property dispute mediator Victoria Pynchon hosted an outstanding Blawg Review #171 at the IP ADR Blog.

So, you see what we're up against. If you don't think coming up with the next best Blawg Review is Hell, you haven't seen the law blog carnivals inspired by Dante, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, that earned Colin Samuels at Infamy or Praise three consecutive awards for Blawg Review of the Year.

"O, woe is me, t'have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"