An infamous patent troll has once again launched a series of lawsuits, but that’s not really the news. It’s the targets and the patents that form the basis of the suits that stand out. Since March, Chicago-based Innovatio has been working with its legal team, Niro, Haller & Niro, of the same city, to sue restaurant and coffee shop chains that provide Wi-Fi to customers.
As of September, the firm has also moved to target some of the country’s largest hotel chains for offering Wi-Fi to customers. Last month, Niro filed six infringement suits against hotel chains, according to a report from the Patent Examiner, a UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Project. Niro lawyer Matthew McAndrews has filed a total of 13 infringement suits since March on behalf of Innovatio, for 17 out of 31 patents it holds on “wireless local area network” (aka “WLAN”).
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