Personally, I don't see why Gemalto, or anyone, would want to settle when the legitimacy of the patents is currently being litigated on appeal. Despite the fact that we can all agree that the original judge was compromised, there are no slam dunks in the court system.
No, I think this is the long haul. Mark told me that he expected to sell the company in a year at the shareholders' meeting of two years ago - as we all well know, things in MicroCap Land always take longer than expected or hoped for.