that he will not stay teh trial pending USPTO reexam
Ward knows that teh reexam is more of a technicality and he also knows
that teh USPTO is so backed up that they will never actually get to a reexam
The prior art is easy on first glance to accept since all your dong is
taking rights away from 1 entity so on reexam teh PTO grants a non-final judgemnent of prior art.
The patentees challenge or rebuttal if successful will give patent rights to
the patentee to teh exclusion of teh rest of the world and therefore
the rebuttal needs a lot more time and can take far longer
than the court will allow and so the Ward does not stay pending USPTO
exam, that gven the time needed and lack of USPTO available resources
can take 6-12 months.