Although Gene seems to discount the inhibitory effect of a patent troll getting fined over $600,000, I think this case will focus the minds of overzealous patent owners, as well as the patent attorneys involved, for whom a Rule 11 sanction carries a burden beyond the dollar amount of the plaintiff's fines.

And while a broad variety of litigious patent holders sometimes get unfairly lumped together as trolls, this outfit clearly seems to deserve the epithet, and in this case the system, in its current form, ultimately seems to have worked.