"May take an educated guess on the average and if any impact before vs after the ruling.

An interesting task."

For sure, you also have to consider in the mix, the pull back of having this court rule on the 737 issue (part 2 ruling?) for "flash memory" . Was it negotiated before, or after the joint motion to the Markman (part 1?) ruling?

If it was considered after the motion was filed, that may have more of an impact on settlement issues than prior. The court has a duty to rule on 737 with regard to defendants as-well. For that, there would have to be a consideration.

There seems to be a very informal issue going on...where the court is not giving any notice regarding the joint motion....or any interim considerations to drop 737.

Minister is looking for normal follow through and it's not showing up....with that, confusion of where things stand exacerbates.
doni