For those unaware, "patent trolls" are companies or individuals that buy/obtain/hold patents and don't do anything except sue other companies over it. While patents were originally created to protect one company's invention and solely their ability to produce that invention, nowadays the patent system is abused like this all over. People have realized they can buy the right to a patent, and make a living by threatening companies for payments (without needing to actual produce anything themselves).
Many companies will buckle and just send out payments opposed to going to court for months, but Newegg decided to actually fight some patent trolls in court... and the patent trolls were so wholly unprepared for somebody actually going to court with them that they didn't even have a proper representative trained.
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Many companies will buckle and just send out payments opposed to going to court for months, but Newegg decided to actually fight some patent trolls in court... and the patent trolls were so wholly unprepared for somebody actually going to court with them that they didn't even have a proper representative trained.
Apparently, when asked to name the patents and technology in question during cross-examination during the appeals hearing, Alcatel-Lucent's corporate representative was unable to name the patents or technology that his company was suing over.