You beat me to it, but I'm still going to post what I started to draft before I got called away.

Pacard said<You (everyone) will be hard pressed to convince me that a strong settlement announcement couldn't have been garnered in the agreement.  >

I hear you Pacard, but put yourself in TPL's shoes. Say the defandants finally agree to pay the $, but on condition that the prs are of the kind we see, what would you do?  Is it worth going to trial if it is essentially over wording of a pr?  You have to be realistic.   Opty