“It may be helpful to emphasise that these parties, like all litigants, have the following options in terms of obtaining a trial listing. (i) First of all, (a) if the parties are able to agree both the subject-matter of a trial, i.e. which patents are in issue and (b) the listing estimate, including pre-reading, court days and time off for preparing closing submissions, the Patents Court is likely to approve the obtaining of a trial listing even in advance of the full CMC and potentially that can be done on paper, or simply by approaching Listing. (ii) Second, if, for example, there remains a relatively confined dispute over the listing estimate which can be dealt with by the court in a short hearing of, as I have indicated, 30 minutes at 9.30 a.m., the parties can approach the listing officer for a short hearing to determine such short disputes, again prior to the full CMC. In this regard, I adhere to an observation I made in my judgment in Teva v Janssen, to the effect that the Court will give a trial listing provided it has a proper appreciation of the scope of the trial. (iii) Third, if the action for example and by contrast involves a number of patents and disputes over which patents should be considered in which trials and/or in which order, or the dispute is complex in some other way such as the effect of disputed directions on trial length, the trial listings may have to be determined at the CMC.”