Hand of God

While many of us share your enthusiasm, and I understand you are "thinking aloud," your post is breathtakingly wrong in many ways, so I would like to clarify a few points:

1) You wrote: "So with alot of people saying that "I want a trial" ... is this not just as good??"

A: No. a pretrial conference is simply a status conference to discuss schedules, timing, and general housekeeping issues. Of course, settlement issues can be discussed, but it is not remotely analogous to a trial. 

2) You wrote: "If this is settled, IMHO this will have the same outcome (patent validation) as a trial with a victory and tripple damages etc. ..." 

A: There is nothing in this statement that is accurate. It does not validate anything. There is no finding on the merits, no res judicata on the issues, and no "tripple" [triple] damages come into play at all.

3) You wrote: "I think that TPL/Patriot has nothing to loose by taking ths thing all the way to trial but both will come to a agreement with appropriate terms."