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Controversial Lawyer Pens Playbook for IP Trials

By Robert J. Ambrogi

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Intellectual property plaintiffs lawyer Raymond P. Niro, co-founder of the Chicago firm Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, had already achieved notoriety enough when he became even more controversial for offering a bounty of $5,000 to unmask an anonymous blogger. Niro didn't like that the anonymous author of the now-defunct Troll Tracker blog repeatedly criticized his lawsuits and called him a "patent troll," a term originally coined in reference to Niro by another lawyer years earlier. Niro's ploy worked. Within months, Rick Frenkel, then a lawyer at Cisco, unmasked himself, saying his hand was forced. But Niro's notoriety has not stood in the way of his success in the courtroom. He won a $57 million verdict in a trade secret case against a snowmobile manufacturer, a $48 million verdict in a patent and trade secret case against an ink manufacturer, a $20 million verdict in a patent infringement case involving a data-relay system and a $16 million verdict in a trade secret case against a sausage manufacturer, to name just some of his wins. Now Niro says he is offering tips from his own courtroom playbook in his self-published book, " GO FOR IT! Cross-Examination to Closing: How to Win an...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).