Everyone will have to come to California to fight it unless they want to spend heavily to bring it local. The idea of the group is to share the burden of the defense as much as possible.
I am not an attorney and cannot speculate on what the court will do but I do know that big stupid cases that clog the courts have a tendency to piss off judges who would rather not waste time either. The court in Orange County, so I have heard, is already overwhelmed with cases and tries hard to achieve time saving strategies. Maybe there will be a stay on the other cases, I hope, but I don't know for sure.
We hope that Lightspeed will join us. I don't think any company would want to take something like this on alone. Conservative estimates for fighting all the way through on this run in the millions.
