SAN FRANCISCO — The fee-shifting walls keep closing in on famed Chicago patent litigation firm Niro Haller & Niro.
A Chicago federal judge has ruled that a Niro client’s inequitable conduct before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office made the company’s subsequent litigation with Dell Inc., Sharp Corp., Palm Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. an “exceptional case” worthy of a fee award under Section 285 of the Patent Act.
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