The supreme court decided to let people fight it out in court. What this means is that patents only work for cartels of large companies forming a patent pool t

The supreme court decided to let people fight it out in court. What this means is that patents only work for cartels of large companies forming a patent pool to keep a technology (eg. H264) to themselves and patent trolls who have no other business so can't be violating any other patents. For anyone else - even if you have a patent on a real invention, and can afford to defend it in court, you are likely to be violating dozens of the large company's patents (how could you know) and so are going to lose.