 Mr. Katz leveraged his knowledge and work in these areas to create an electronic commerce system to help businesses reach customers in remote locations.An associate professor of patent law at the University of Missouri Law School in Columbia and author of the patent-law blog called Patently-O, said that he generally has no problem with a patent holder suing infringers.Similarly, a patent attorney and the President and Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc. stated that "it is probably better to think of Katz as one of the premiere American inventors who has been able to monetize his inventions by bundling his rights into a portfolio that he licenses to those who are using technologies that cover his innovation."