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.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 is reasonable to expect the patent office to understand prior art in cryptography.