This is intersting read about how patent cases reviewed before judge T.JOHN WARD

http://mcsmith.blogs.com/eastern_district_of_texas/files/ward_patent_cases_appendix_c.pdf

And some comments re timing of the hearing

a Joint Claim Construction and Prehearing Statement, which shall contain the

following information:

Thus, the Court’s modifications will make the trigger of P.R. 4-1 through P.R. 4-5 the date

of the Claim Construction Hearing. For clarification, the Court notes that the “140 days” set forth

in P.R. 4-1 was not chosen to confuse the parties but was instead chosen so as to be evenly divisible

by 7. Thus, whatever the date of the Claim Construction Hearing, the deadline for complying with

P.R. 4-1 will always fall on a weekday. If that weekday is a Federal Holiday, the deadline for

complying with P.R. 4-1 is extended to the first day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other Federal

Holiday.