Raymond Niro Sr., a seminal figure in intellectual property law whose incensed opponents dubbed him the first “patent troll,” died unexpectedly Monday while vacationing in Italy. He was 73.
Niro’s skills as a negotiator and trial lawyer made him a hero to inventors and a painful thorn in the side of corporate America. A string of multimillion-dollar jury verdicts in the 1990s and the early 2000s landed him among the National Law Journal’s top 10 trial lawyers in the country and inspired Intel Corp. to slap the “troll” moniker on him and a client in 2001. The label stuck but it didn’t slow down Niro or the generation of patent attorneys who emulated his business model, at least not until the last few years.
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