Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
Patent trolls are certainly a problem, but realistically you can't have laws without someone trying to abuse them.<p>I think it might be more effective to attack the problem from the other end: making sure patents like don't get issued in the first place. Maybe it's not reasonable to expect every jury to understand the basics of encryption. But it <i>is</i> reasonable to expect the patent office to understand prior art in cryptography.