And it goes on and on...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/patent-trolls-stock-soars-20-after-court-victory-over-samsung-huawei/

older but still open:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/patent-trolls-how-some-say-theyre-hurting-us-economy/

nonstop madness:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/patent-troll-claims-https-websites-infringe-crypto-patent-sues-everybody/

If a patent troll wins a court case, they're not a patent troll, they bought/applied for a patent and deserve the money.

If a patent troll wins a court case, they're not a patent troll, they bought/applied for a patent and deserve the money.

Not necessarily, it could just mean that the patent was "valid" and that the court agreed another company was infringing the "valid" patent.

However, since the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) admits to not understanding software, and didn't even want to issue software patents until Congress told them to, and issues patents for ridiculously generic things, and issues duplicate/redundant patents for stuff that has already been generically patented by twenty other companies, then someone can still win a court case and be a troll, and not deserve the money because the patent itself should never have been issued.

The problem in the patent system is the USPTO's incompetence (and parts of the legal system; for example, making it incredibly difficult to invalidate a patent), and the trolls taking advantage of it to extort everyone from large corporations to small businesses and even individuals into paying money.

I don't know the situation behind this particular case, but it's not correct to say in general that a won case automatically means they aren't trolls.

Little hope on the horizon for Austin Meyer of X-Plane? I still need to translate with google:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/in-a-first-east-texas-judge-hits-patent-troll-with-attorneys-fees/

However, since the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) admits to not understanding software

Unbelievable:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/microsoft-patents-a-slider-earning-effs-stupid-patent-of-the-month-award/

Unbelievable:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/microsoft-patents-a-slider-earning-effs-stupid-patent-of-the-month-award/

If you read the entire article, you see Corel is suing Microsoft for patent infringement, so Microsoft is patenting a bunch of crap and suing them back.

Alot of patent usage, apart from the trolls, is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) patent usage: Sue me with your stupid patents, and I'll sue you with my stupid patents.

With patents, it's partly numerical advantage. Attack them with 20 patents, and maybe the judge will strike down half of them, but you still win. The major companies basically try to encourage a cold-war approach between each other, and a mafia-shakedown approach to newcomers to get a cut of their profits (e.g. both Apple and Microsoft take a cut of all Android sales. Microsoft makes more off of Android sales from Samsung and Google and others, then Microsoft makes off of their own Windows phones).

Am I right that all those patent trolls only exist, as in Texas the loser doesn't need to pay all fees from both parties?

Well I guess that's why we don't see such in the EU.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/cisco-gets-a-big-patent-win-despite-supreme-court-loss-overturns-64m-verdict/