<p>A jury has ordered online retailer Newegg to cough-up $2.3 million as part of a closely watched patent dispute with a company called TQP Development.</p><p>Newegg plans to appeal, according to Ars Technica, which first reported the decision.</p><p>TQP Development is a patent assertion entity, aka a patent troll a company that owns patents and asserts them against others but doesn't actually use them in products of its own. But this isn't just any patent troll. The company is owned by notorious patent lawyer Erich Spangenberg, the man behind IPNav, a firm that has sued over 1,638 companies for patent infringement, according to the New York Times.</p><p>TQP Development itself has sued a hundreds of tech companies including Apple, Google, Intel and Samsung over the same encryption patent, which was filed in 1989 by a man named Michael Jones.</p><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/newegg/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/intellectual-property/patent-trolls-victory-over-newegg-bodes-ill-online-retailers-231661">Patent troll&#039;s victory over Newegg bodes ill for online retailers</a> (InfoWorld)</p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/26/247350084/jury-orders-newegg-to-pay-2-3-million-in-patent-troll-case">Jury Orders Newegg To Pay $ 2.3 Million In &#039;Patent Troll&#039; Case</a> (NPR (blog))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dvt1Rg4-mOWFZGMK5yXDcMrGnplQM&ned=us">44 additional articles.</a></p>