Re: so much time...opty
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Oct 17, 2008 08:21AM
Possibly...but remember the vast number of patent infringement cases never make to the trial/jury stage...they go throguh all the discovery and people giving depositions etc etc etc....and the costs associated with such...plus the legal fees for your lawyers...and travel and living expense of the parties involved...if they're not located where the trial is to be held, and last but not least the time delay of settlement fees being received during this period.
IMO, if we had reexams in our favor, in our hands, we (TPL/PTSC) would gladly take the best offered settlement we could get without a court case....untrained juries are too risky in complicated cases such as these. At the same time the T-3 would do their best to drag it out as long as they could before they agreed to settle....all that in supposition that do really infringe or at least believe they can't make their case to a jury. They want this to be a distance race not a sprint....which by reading things it seems it has been already
JMHO