Thanks to a recent decision against the patent troll called Uniloc we now know that "Even An East Texas Court Has Told Uniloc That It Can't Patent Math". The significance of this lies in the fact that software patents are characterised correctly for a change, even in the most patents-friendly places. There is a new "Math on Trial" book. It is not about patents but it's about cases in the courtroom that are built solely on mathematics, or specifically mathematical errors. Let us hope that more literature and even courts will reinforce the position that mathematics have no place in the courtroom and software patents essentially correspond to monopoly on higher-level mathematics. Unless the judges are prepared to handle a whiteboard/blackboard, pick up a marker/chalk, and then analyse legal case in terms of equations and such, mathematics have no place on trial. Richard Stallman made the suggestion that software patents should be made unenforceable in the courts. ⬆