Just did a quick read of TPL's motion to continue trial until Jan, 2008 -- motion unopposed by NEC or Matsushita, and conditionally agreed to by Toshiba so long as trial begins no later than Jan '08. But ARM opposes the motion. TPL and ARM are working on a stipulated judgement of non-infringement, according to a footnote in the motion to continue. I'm not sure what that will encompass, but thought it worth a mention.

 The narrative indicates that some of the J3 have only recently produced a document "dump" -- that is, tens of thousands of pages of previously requested documentation, but only recently has it arrived on TPL's dorrstep, or, more likely, loading dock (even though much of it was requested 6-12 months ago). And, here's the fun part, much of the dump is in Japanese, or in electronic code, some of which apparently can't be read even by buying/leasing the proprietary technology used to create such code.

So TPL wants 60 additional days just to translate and THEN review the documents. And there is still, apparently, a lot of missing documentation that TPL says it needs to make its case -- including sales information that TPL says is "crucial" to calculating a damages request.

Opposition to the motion is due to be filed Aug 1, with TPL's reply by Aug 6, and, one presumes, a ruling in the days to follow, barring schedule conflicts...TPL's motion has over a hundred pages of attached exhibits, so it looks like it will take a while for Judge Ward to read through it all.

Sorry I can't post the motion; I'm technologically behind the curve that way. But it looks like what a layman would consider sneaky delay tactics has entered the fray.

JMHO.