If defendants feel things went bad, they may want to settle before MH results. If edig gets a favorable markman, then the price to settle one would assume goes up significantly. To answer your question, the patent definitions determined in the markman set up those meanings that would be used in a trial to determine whether something is an infringing product. It becomes clearer and more explicit as to how many and who has infringing products.

Timeframes other than that would be anyones guess. I still am interested that only 6 [i believe] were involved in the last minute filing prior to the MH rather than all defendants and how/why it went like that.

BGD