"What I do believe is important about our current status is that, unless the remaining T2 settle very quickly, we will finally get the completed Markman ruling, which, in turn, will hopefully lead to a pretrial judgement of infringement." my bold

Wow! I did not realize that this is a possibility. I assumed, that barring a settlement, the next step was a trial, if a judgement of infringement was to be attained. Excuse my ignorance, if this idea should have been common knowledge.