This one will go up the food-chain of the "justice system"...if I'm reading the article correctly, there were "two" jury "nullification" (I believe that's the legal term) incidents by the same judge: one in 2006 and this one. If this is the case--it will be interesting to see what the appeals court (the one that threw the 'fish' back in the first place) does with this same action. I wonder if there are any really "learned" legal types who have a better idea what might happen.

Suppose it depends who the jury was.

Nice to see, that mob mentality didn't rule the court of Law, that day. Too bad about the rest.

Why have a stage show with a jury if some hack king (judge) can over-ride it if he/she does not agree with the outcome. Total BS.

So, how much did Microsoft pay this judge?

I'm looking forward to 15 years time when this scum of a company is a mere smear on the market floor.

"Microsoft said that its technology works differently from Richardson's and his patent was obvious."

They all are. It's the myth of software patents that somehow they're all super special when actually they aren't.

NEXT!

William Smith, the best judge money can buy!
I guess his biggest purchase in the near future won't be a chickenshed.