One interesting note: Marshall, TX (pop. 23,000) has become such a hotspot for patent suits that large tech companies have started pouring major charitable dona

One interesting note: Marshall, TX (pop. 23,000) has become such a hotspot for patent suits that large tech companies have started pouring major charitable donations into it. Samsung in particular has given hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships and other gifts to Marshall residents. Now, I would be hard pressed to describe that as something other than "pre-emptive jury tampering", but since I would also describe patent trolling as a modern protection racket, it's hard for me to really get mad about. So there is, at least, some financial gain coming to Gilstrap's town in return for this madness. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/patent-troll-claims-to-own-bluetooth-scores-15-7m-verdict-against-samsung/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/patent-troll-cla...