As everyone knows in industry, this is not really a "win". Patent trolls are setup in such a way that if they win they make lot of money and if they lose then they lose very little. In many cases, they don't have to even pay damage or lawyers fee for other party. If they are ever ordered to do so then they would just announce bankruptcy of their shell company. They don't even lose their portfolio because it's allocated in to hundreds of shell companies. So in nutshell, Newegg has done very little damage to the troll. The troll already made $45M and now they will just move on to next patent in their next shell company.
All the other efforts like preventing bad patents through StackExchange etc also have very little impact on troll business model. The only real weapon you can use against them is crafting laws that strongly discourage trolling. One would think tech industry with 100s of billions in bank have enough lobby power to get this done quickly. The issue again is that tech industry itself want to own such lousy patents to use against each other. So the industry will only support weaker forms of laws against trolling. I would highly suspect there would be end of trolling anytime soon. Industry as a whole would be more than willing to absorb this cost instead of giving up on their own ammo.
"... tech industry itself want to own such lousy patents to use against each other."
I recall a story where Steve Jobs called Eric Schmidt from Burning Man and threatened Schmidt with "nuclear war" over Android. What did he threaten him with? Legitimate competition? Guess again.
Junk patents are a perfect vehicle for vexatious litigation.
This is just my biased opinion but the IT industry appears to have no shortage of child-like executives.
World's largest patent troll co-founded by former Microsoft CTO and a licensing lawyer from Intel who coined the term "patent troll". Two individuals who had certainly seen their share of trolling by smaller entities against MSFT and INTC. I believe the lawyer blogged about the problem of "patent trolls" anonymously for while at Intel in the late 90's, but was later "outed".
The industry was aware of this problem very early on.
All the other efforts like preventing bad patents through StackExchange etc also have very little impact on troll business model. The only real weapon you can use against them is crafting laws that strongly discourage trolling. One would think tech industry with 100s of billions in bank have enough lobby power to get this done quickly. The issue again is that tech industry itself want to own such lousy patents to use against each other. So the industry will only support weaker forms of laws against trolling. I would highly suspect there would be end of trolling anytime soon. Industry as a whole would be more than willing to absorb this cost instead of giving up on their own ammo.