I found this on another board about a stock that has gone from a dollar to 30 dollars. The parties could be negotiating???

Here is a take from Marginmn on IV about just this topic and it makes sense to me. "Re: Markman waves about to hit shore?
The thing that really stands out to me in the last couple of weeks is that *** won a very important USPTO decision regarding the *** re-exam denial and yet they choose not gloat about it in a press release. A very grown up thing to do and from my 15 years of experience in dealing with IR departments it us a tell that the two parties might be in constructive talks.
I'm not saying they will conclude a deal but not putting out a press release tells me that *** has reasonable hopes of concluding a deal and didn't want to rub their victory in ****'s face - at this time. If the two sides were miles apart then they would have nothing to lose and likely would have released on it and enjoyed a nice pop in the stock."