Everyone knows this is not in any way a make it or break it time....just some jockeying for position pre-markman. It's just fun to see someone working so hard to pretend the sky is falling on a bright sunny day.
Hope for Defendant weakness is encouraging, but not yet clear to a layman. Your conclusion would certainly support a favorable Vringo outcome. We can only watch developments unfold toward final realities, without the more penetrating insight of process and strategy that legal professionals might provide currently.