"I believe the judge has already stated that the court wants all prior art included in the discovery phase which seems, to me at least, that discovery won't be limited."

full blown discovery aside, there is a focus on information they have targeted.

The case has a limited potential unless they get the target information they're after.

If they do not get the technicals they're after, they note they will start a new claims construction issue.

The way I see it, in the last case, the physical hardware was the main issue to challenge and settle.....they are now past that. They received a change to 737 after that case started and ended. That change, seemingly minor when I read it, must add leverage in some manner.

They are scaling to the next level. Though you can't see these details physically, the memory has a format issue to be considered in the total process. Managing bad memory cell issues within their format are part of the unseeable problem.

Because the judge forced the depositions to happen in consideration of this information, IMO, the discovery is not important other than it just flow with the case now.

Once the information is received through the deposition process.....IMO, settlements will start to happen.

IMO, they can then escalate settlement amounts in the next case, using the court results in this case and the prior case.

The physical and logical issues will be in play.

doni