<p>Newegg, the second largest online retailer in the world behind Amazon, will have to pay patent-licensing giant TQP Development a royalty of $2.3 million for patent infringement, a local federal jury decided Monday after a week-long trial here in U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap's courtroom.</p><p>TQP, a company owned by Erich Spangenberg, of Dallas, filed suit against Newegg accusing the company of infringing by actively inducing its customers to infringe TQP's patent, relating to encryption.</p><p>"At base, this case is about Newegg's infringement of a constitutional property right, TQP's property right," Attorney Marc Fenster, representing TQP, said in closing arguments.</p><p>The jury found that TQP did prove that Newegg directly infringed the claims in the patent and also induced its customers to infringe the asserted claims in the patent. The jury also found TQP's patent to be valid.</p><p><a href="http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/online-retail-giant-newegg-loses-patent-case-ordered-to-pay/article_1ffbfadd-d2ec-5a9d-8ddc-3ebcfb33635f.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/newegg/">Online Retailer Newegg Ordered to Pay Patent Trolls $ 2.3 Million</a> (Wired)</p><p><a href="http://kcur.org/post/jury-orders-newegg-pay-23-million-patent-troll-case">Jury Orders Newegg To Pay $ 2.3 Million In &#039;Patent Troll&#039; Case</a> (KCUR)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dNu7CQcjIHKggTMvt1Rg4-mOWFZGM&ned=us">33 additional articles.</a></p>