> "We're certainly very disappointed," said Cheng. "We respectfully disagree with the verdict that the jury reached tonight. We fully intend, as we did in the Soverain case, to take this case up on appeal and vindicate our rights."
> Soverain was the "shopping cart" patent that Newegg was ordered to pay $2.5 million for, but the company then knocked it out on appeal. Soverain's damage request was huge for Newegg: $34 million.
You could have said the exact same thing when they first went to court and it would have been just as true. But that's why they are doing it. They already lost simply by operating in a country with such broken patents.
Some more information about previous cases:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corp...
Newegg has been my exclusive source of tech goods since they started standing up to trolls. I intend to keep rewarding them with my repeat business.
A troll's business model relies mostly on settlements, newegg can just keep selling computers.
I was depressed when I read the verdict, but your point here gives me new hope. I hadn't thought about that.
I wonder if they're going to hold back on their witnesses then for the appeals process as a sort of "ace in the hole?" I further have to wonder if the reason they decided not to use that witness was because they suspected they were going to lose this case and have to appeal?
I can only hope that the appeals process ends up invalidating this patent.
The whole point of their strategy is to discourage the next patent troll from trying to shake them down. Even if they lose this case, they will have continued to demonstrate that they are no push over.
I would imagine some patent trolls think twice about going after Newegg because they will fight. Fighting in court is not what a patent troll wants, they want the easy victim that will surrender easily.
Because if they go to court, not only does it cost them money but it could cost them their patent. It's better to go after an easier target.
It's why Wal-Mart was known for fighting all lawsuits back in the day. Because after the first time you settle with someone that "slipped" in the aisles you will suddenly find that someone "slips" in your stores nearly every day.