They call that quaint there... These aren't stupid hicks. If you think for a second that these folks don't see this as an awesome way to give a big Texas flying finger to Silicon Valley types with their skinny jeans, silly beards, and smugnaciousness... you've merely increased their will to continue this process.
Eschewing justice in favor of giving "a big Texas flying finger to Silicon Valley types with their skinny jeans, silly beards, and smugnaciousness" pretty much makes them stupid hicks, sorry.
There's a difference between "clever" and "not stupid." One can be a stupid "clever" person. These people are "clever," because they know what butters their bread. That doesn't mean they aren't also dumb hicks.
I'm from that area. "Stupid hicks" isn't entirely inaccurate. As in other areas ranging from religion to economics, these salt-of-the-Earth folks are culturally conditioned to adopt the views of whoever gets to speak first.
I doubt it. They are not stupid. They know what they are doing. They are attracting more patent cases. They are acting rationally in their own best interest.
Crunching the numbers, though, there are around 171,000 people in the counties that make up the juries. If national ratios of under 18 and felon populations hold that is a 115,000 member jury pool. If a jury is 8 to 12 people it would only take an influx of 11,000 to 17,000 software patent unfriendly people to average one juror on that side per case.
In short: Perhaps it is time to create a techie colony in the Marshall area. Remote working for the win!
It looks like the population of Marshall is ~23K as of 2010. I wonder if it would be possible to pay a sizable number of people to move to Marshall to alter the average patent sentiment.
