"The flaw in the thinking here is that if no company is going to pay big bucks until they have lost a Markman hearing (which I agree and which has yet to happen) then why settle with LG at all? If we don't need the "settlement leverage", and if it is not going to help a big company settle before a Markman hearing, then why not take them to Markman as well? Makes no legal strategic sense at all."

For once I agree with you...

There is no logic to it at all.

doni