After reading this part:

"The dismissal provided by this Order does not limit the parties’ ability to continue to prosecute its remaining claims, defenses, and counterclaims in this litigation regarding U.S. Patent Nos. 5,809,336; 6,598,148; 5,440,749; and 5,530,890. "

...and since the USPTO seems to be holding back on OA's, it makes me wonder if TPL has requested to get the remaining reex's to the same stage of procedures before final decisions can be made on all of them at one time. It would be huge news that would have a bigger impact than individual decsions and simplify things so that the litigation would move along quicker IMHO.

Just a thought that has been nagging at me and is total speculation FWIW.

GLTAL