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Please do not compare yourself with the great Nintendo game..You are more like "halitosis in the TV room"..
"Specific factual matters do not need to be shown by clear and convincing evidence."
.Say what..That is the very standard the defendants must meet.."Clear and convincing evidence" the patents are obvious..no "creation of expectations"..except in your country.
":>) JL
Bill B...
I thought the next thing you should have posted is an apology to me...But now you post..
Quote: "She ruled as one might have expected given her background."
Now it is you that is profiling and stereotyping her..I find your comment "repulsive"...But then when have you ever made a meaningful comment on this board? ...
Go ahead call the adm...
":>) JL
DD222....
Re MIS-C....
Certainly Vascepa would be worth a try...Whether or not Vascepa would be therapeutic in these cases can only be determined by clinical trials..There is most likely a "tipping point" where the inflammatory process simply overcomes the system..So without any clinical data..My guess would be that Vascepa would be effective if given early enough (ie prophylactically) it might be effective..I would be surprised if it could stop a full scale inflammatory storm..but who knows..
":>) JL
jasbg...
Yes we have far too many of these who want to lecture us on political correctness and what is repulsive; and tell us it is not the lying cheating biased judges that conveniently base their decisions on factual errors and ignore correct procedure..But it is us who don't fully empathize with their personal struggles which justify the abrogation from their sacred duty to remain impartial..Or to front for powerful clients at the cost of Veterans' lives..
Being a Vietnam veteran myself I am repulsed by their comments...And how these little cheaters immediately scream for the adms to rush in and claim "Personal Attack" or "Off Topic"...When it is their own post which is a personal attack...Calling my comments repulsive is no different than calling me repulsive...When all I said was personal events "tragedies" in judges lives could have an effect on the way they think. As a surgeon I can tell you that personal event can effect operating room performance and I can not immagine his would also be true for judges..(and this is not "off topic")..there is nothing "off topic" about Judge Du's amazing verdict..
":>) JL
invest...
Please feel free to send anything I write to Singer or anyone else who can help us from this terrible and "repulsive" verdict of Du's..
I hope you are right and that this will help...
":>) JL
Quote:
"This entire speculation on her state of mind is unseemly I believe and I find dredging up her personal life in pursuit of a benefit to amarin repulsive"
Sorry you think I am repulsive.
What I find repulsive is when a judge dismisses perfectly sound arguments and bases her verdict on factual errors..
":>) JL
I would be happy to help any recognized body to write an amicus. I just don't think one comming from me is going to be accepted...Because I do not have the credentials..
":>) JL
Invest..Comcapt....
I have had several events in my life that frame my beliefs..When I was in Medschool...I had a summer job which later became a regular job working on the Intra Aortic Ballon pump (IABP)...The IABP was and is like a respirator , but rather than improving lung function; the IABP takes a significant work load off the left ventricle..I was not the first one to conceive the IABP, But at the time the Balloon Pump. a counter pulsation device which collapses inside the Aorta lowering the aortic pressure when the left ventricle is ejecting blood into the Aorta..And then inflates during the ventricular filling..(the Aortic Valve does not allow blood to be pulsed back into the ventricle)..
The IABP came out in the 1960s..At that time LBJ was President and LBJ had terrible heart disease..There were a number of cardiac assistance devices but only the IABP has stood the test of time and is still in use..
During that period Doctors always knew the heart was a pump and they compared the failure of the pump to running out of gas in your car..My biggest contribution was convincing Avco Everett Reasearch labs that a heart attack was not like a car running out of gas..It was like an airplane running out of gas. The reason all the other solutions did not catch on is they all required complicated surgery..8 units of Whole blood ande 8 units of fresh blood..and twenty or more personnel..What was need was a solution like a respirator which supported the system..But not something that replaced the system..The balloon pump could be inserted using an artery like the femoral and could be done in an Emergency Ward...
There were many very "Hall of Fame" doctors..Roman DeSanctis, and Charlie Sanders (cardiologist) and Mort Buckley and Gerry Austin (cardiac surgeons) who were on the team..Frankly Mort Buckley (MGH) was flabbergasted that Kantrowitz included me (a medical school Student) as the fourth member of the Exec...
I understood my role and never tried to go after the glory, because I was well aware of the fates of those in medicine that have the ideas..but not the credentials..My problem is I do not have any credentials..I am an MD, but not a cardiologist or a lipidolgist..So why would anyone care what my opinion is...
I would be happy to discuss with the company how they could counter the Obvious issue... on the basis of fact..But so far no one at the company has ever reached out to me and in fact at one point I actually contacted Amarin and sent them the contact numbers of scientists at Harvard that were working on inflammation..The company made no attempt to contact any of them...I do believe the company could put some of my ideas in use in the appeal..Coming from them will be much more effective than me sending them in as some random Plastic Surgeon..
":>) JL
zip...
Was the son..shot in a police standoff...or was the husband shot two years ago in a police standoff..
If her son was shot at a time she was adjudicating Amarin..Then Du is not only stupid she has very poor judgement..This whole story just gets weirder and weirder. Amarin should try to get her opinion vacated on the grounds that a mother losing her only child in a police shootout would not likely be in a frame of mind to judge a complex trial involving physiology and patents and the numerous mistakes she made in her decision bear that out.
There is no event that is harder on the mind than the loss of a child..
":>) JL
raf...
Yes it was very clear that Hydroxy Chloriquine and a Z-pac was the answer.
I'm sure you remember my earlier posts...I have not changed my mind..If I come down with the virus I want HChl and a Z-pac..and not the Gilead drug...
":>) JL
@twi
The irony of this whole Du situation is the most likely rationale behind the Du decision is a desire to lower the cost of medicine and the cost to individuals...And in fact her decision is not going to have that effect at all...
Since Vascepa actually cuts the cost of health care in the USA (according to ICER)... The fact is use of Vascepa is clearly effected by marketing and the Generics do not market..As a result; the cost of medicine actually goes up..the savings in using a cheaper Tier 1 drug and fewer V scripts (due to less marketing) results in an increase in CVD events due to failing to use Vascepa results in higher medical costs because the cost of treating these events is so much higher than the cost of using Vascepa.."4 gms of prevention is worth more than a pound of procedures.
Maybe Amarin's lawyers can point that out to Du and the learned AC judges..
":>) JL
raf and TTE...
There is no bedrock legal thinking that supports. the rights of the government to supersede the property rights of ownership.Unless there is a clear and an eminent danger. Or a right of domain. And if it is eminent domain then the government must pay market value for seizing the property. the USA economics is based on free enterprise..Which means the property owner can charge what ever price will bear..But that might not stop SJWs from dipping their pens into the ink...
There always has to be some skepticism revolving around decisions that give away the property rights of someone else..Why should Amarin not start a campaign against the exorbitant high salaries of Federal Judges..or senators or other politicians..If the government wants to relieve the burden of the elderly or the impoverished..Then it (government) should increase taxes and subsidize the health care of the elderly and the poor..But don't steal the property of its citizens
Giving away the property of the innovators like Amarin, which ICER shows actually cuts the over all costs of medicine is not the correct solution.In fact it is exactly the wrong solution...Because if these do good judges gift Vascepa to the generics...This is going to greatly lower the chances of seeing new Vascepa's in the future..
Does anyone on this board think Amarin would have continued to spend their and the shareholders money..Money that shareholders could have better spent...If they thought the federal courts could just move in and hand their property to someone else who did no work or invested (risked) no money...This is nothing less than theft by the legal system..
Last time I looked we were not a communist country...
":>) JL
sleven...
guess it's not just a problem with spelling..Sstyle only said it would be nice if the PTO would write something...They have not yet..And there maybe reasons for not doing it..
":>) JL
TTE...
Sorry i missed the part in my post where I mentioned "fairness" My post was about property (ownership)..Guess you missed that point.
":>) JL
CaptBeer...
While I read and agree with most of your post. I think you and most of the board are missing the main point....
The trial is not about obviousness...The trial is about Property..If you read all my posts you will agree that no one on this board is any more convinced there was no obviousness about the unexpected benefits of using pure EPA in adequate doses..
But that is just a side issue...The real issue is Amarin did all the heavy lifting, spent all the money, endured the roadblocks that FDA put up at every cross road and that is why Amarin should be considered the Property owner of the EPA franchise with all rights as guaranteed by Hatch-Waxman and should be protected by the law..and not be subject to a Kangaroo Court orchestrated by a judge who for whatever reason is neither impartial or even honest and is obviously determined to give Amarin's property to the generics who have done nothing to deserve the drug rights except go to court and convince some crooked judge they own the property rights..
I have not seen one post that suggests the generics have spent one dollar to research this drug and its indication to get FDA approval in the USA.
If this is the way the law works in this country then woe to us all..Obviousness my foot...The only thing that was really obvious was the R-I trial far exceeded the expectations of virtually all cardiologists and that was a fact regardless of what Mori or Kura said or didn't say..
I gather from our learned lawyers on the board that the AC decision breaks down into a crap shoot depending on the ideology of the particular judges we draw..Jesus..is it really come to that..Is there no one in the law that believes in right and wrong..My only daughter is a lawyer..
I know in medicine..therapeutics is not regulated by political beliefs or ideologies..Ignorance is still the biggest factor..
":>) JL
ORP...
I have BC/BS Medex still from Mass. Though I have been living in FL for the past 7 years...That is not the problem..It is the Drug plan which is Silver Scripts in FL..and Vascepa is tier 4 as they do not figure in the R-I results..The label not being changed until the end of Dec 2019..
I do not know what the charge on my next three months will be..hoping for the best..
":>) JL
ilove...
I have CVS Silver scripts...It may have something to do with the deductible or other factors I do not understand...When it comes to drug plans..There is much that can not be understood..I'm hoping my next batch will be cheaper...I was told a couple of days ago from one of these Medicare people who call you told me I had very good coverage..and should not change a thing...
":>)JL
TTE..
Spot on...I like every word of your post..in the same order..
Goes under the heading Frequently wrong..but never in doubt..
Can we change "She da Judge" and say She Du Judge...Thank god for the sloppyness
":>) JL
zip...
Normally you and I see eye to eye..But I am surprised at your post...
I don't see it that way at all..I see her as a prime example of "affirmative action"...and she is simply way over her head..She also has an agenda which favors the generics.. She very well could be trying to do her part in lowering the cost of medicine and I can appreciate that..Just got a
a three month supply of Vascepa at a cost of $580...But I put that on the FDA which moved the RI label date back to late Dec.2019 and made Vascepa a tier 4 medication for Medicare patients (no coupons). Till the next open enrollment in Nov or Dec 2020.
Ed you sound a little like Marc Anthony at Julius Caesars funeral..
"The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it."
Ambition and evil are frequent bed fellows...But in this case I think we have enough ignorance to more than explain the situation..I understand her motivation might be noble in her own mind..She just is not thinking the the thing through the whole way..
":>) JL
What was obvious, is obvious, and why it was not obvious..and still is not easily understood..and while Singer's work is excellent on legal basis it does not actually explain the why EPA's actions were so unexpected...
First the facts..
Fact 1) Triglycerides (trigs) are a fraction of the blood lidids..they are three fatty acid chains tied together by a glycerol molecule...and as such are the main source of the bodies fuel..Even though diet and liver synthesis (trigs are synthesized by the liver) can increase blood trig levels..Trig levels are mainly controlled by the rate they are removed from the blood stream...From a clinical standpoint when and if a patient has high trigs..it is not because he is eating too many fats its because he can not dissolve the trigs out of his blood stream and store them in his body fat...
Fact 2)..All fats are lipids and not soluble in aqueous solutions like the blood...Therefore they must be transported in lipoproteins that have a polar external surface and a non polar internal surface..The lipoprotein which carries pricipally trigs is the Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) fraction. The VLDL fraction also carries some LDL-C and as such is defined principally by the cargo it carries..The confusion here is created by the fact that if the VLDL particle loses a significant fraction of its trigs.(50%) then it is no longer a VLDL particle, but is converted into a LDL particle..And this is why lowering trigs in most cases results in an increase in LDL particles..
Fact 3)..There is an equation (The Friedewald Equation) which defines the correct ratios of the main lipid components of the blood..The Friedewald equation has been determined in large clinical studies (30 thousand patients) to very accurate although it does require some changes in the constant at very high trig levels..
The Friedwald Equation says LDL = TotalChol - (Triglycerides / 5) - HDL
From this very simple algebraic formula we can see that if all other parameters remain constant then lowering the trigs by any method should cause an increase in LDL. LDL being a well known risk factor now and back in the early 2000s it seems obvious that if EPA lowered the trig level it must increase the LDL...The fact it did not was anything but obvious and is still not obvious 20 years later...it is a mystery to most..
The reason why EPA could lower Trig levels and not raise LDL could be because EPA lowers Trigs by lowering Systemic Inflammation (SI)..As noted earlier trig levels are controlled mainly by the rate trigs are removed from the blood stream and not by the rate they are introduced into the blood stream and this is very similar to how blood sugar levels are controlled by the body..
In type 2 Diabetes...the root problem is the patient's insulin is not very efficient at removing sugar from the blood stream..A situation called "Insulin Resistance" (IR)..It is a proven fact that IR is the direct result of elevated SI...Elevated trigs result in a similar fashion to those seen in the blood sugar in t2DM because the enzymes that expedite the removal of trigs from the blood (Fatty acid synthases) (FAS) are effected by elevated SI in the same way Insulin is effected in T2DM...In both cases the culprit is elevated Systemic Inflammation..So elevated blood sugar in T2DM is a marker for elevated SI and elevated trigs are also a marker for SI..And as we on this board understand elevated SI is what causes the events in Cardiac and vascular diseases..
So there was no obviousness about the Marine results back in 2010..Ten years later and it is still a puzzle..Lowering trigs and not significantly rising LDL-C..should not be possible..Most likely there is a statin like effect resulting from the lowering of SI..
Du and even Fisher and certainly the other judges are way over their heads on these issues. There was no obviousness and still no obviousness.
Mother medicine can hold on to her secrets..The questions never change..only the answers...
":>) JL
mapman...
Sorry man...Quote: "Heck no. They have been setting up the greatest market short opportunity of their lifetimes."....
This was never going to be a great short...Even if Du's ridiculous conclusion was substantiated by the AC..The PPS was not going down the drain...On the other hand if Du is reversed...And I am betting she will be. It will be a tremendous win for the longs....because Amarin gets the greatest drug in the world back...
I was involved in the 889 patent way back when the USPTO initially declared the patent was obvious...From an error in arithmetic...Once their mistake was pointed out they approved the patent..As far as I know there were no other issues regarding the patents involving the actions of Vascepa..That is why I was surprised at Du's conclusions...I know KIWI was posting on the Yahoo board when that issue came up...Can not remember if any of the current posters on Ihub were there..
":>) JL
Hedging, hind sight, and responsibility..
The killer in playing the stock market is incomplete information..The stock market is risk betting which means you can win..but you can also lose. Most retail stock market players lose money..Most lose all their money in a period less than a year because they are playing against professionals who have more and better information than the retail...But even the best funds with the best strategies can and do lose all their money..Because their strategies (all strategies) can be counter traded. And there are funds that
prey on the weak...
If you "play the market" you need to take responsibility for your own mistakes...Two years ago JT was an all star...Tom Brady, Larry Bird and Bobby Orr all thrown together..Now he is a bumbling idiot. He should have settled...Well we to this day do not know if he tried to settle. What we do know is he reached a settlement with TEVA...Does it not make sense he would have made overtures to Reddi and Hickma...Maybe they just were more confident than TEVA..We just do not know..But more to the point..You and I as shareholders, did not need JT's permission to hedge the DC's decision..We individuals made that decision..Not JT...
Actually in terms of the bet being asymmetrical...It was a no brainer. The PPS was double digits and an unfavorable decision would have definitely sent the price down below $5...So why did so many of us (self included), not hedge the bet. THE REASON WAS.. WE ALL THOUGHT THE DECISION WAS A VIRTUAL CERTAINTY CONSIDERING AMARIN'S ALL STAR LAWYERS AND THE ISSUES. We just never considered we would get a Judge Du for the trial..
The hedge this time around is not so clearcut. The PPS is in the mid single digit range, a win for Amarin would likely result in the PPS to go into the low twenties...A loss and we would essentially be in the same position we find ourselves in today..The PPS would be a knee jerk drop into high 4's or low 5's...With a gradual return to today's prices..
All this ranting and raving about how JT screwed up is just hind sight. Looking for the culprit...Go look in the mirror..When to hedge and not to hedge is based on estimating what the effect on the price the event is going to have...Often times there is going to be a small difference one way and a very large one the other. And that should determine whether or not to hedge and not your gut feeling on which way the the event is going to go..
Finally if you play the market...you have to take responsibility for your own mistakes...As the real Jesse Livermore pointed out..If a man did not make mistakes he would own the world in a couple of months..The mistake family is a very big one..We all make them..Step one..take responsibility..If you always have somebody you can blame..How are you ever going to learn...
":>) JL
raf....
Gotcha...
":>) JL
Thanks Flub.....
":>) JL
Nick...
What I really think they should do is skip further Convertible notes and just float a secondary..Currently the company has a float of only 96 mil common shares and in the big game this is next to nothing..A lot of big funds would not come near an issue that only has 96 mil because of potential liquidity problems...Right now the company could sell 20 mil shares at $10 and get $200 mil which would go a long way of getting them completely debt free..Then they would be turning those revenues into earnings..and the PPS would go through the roof...Three months down the road and everyone would be saying.."What dilution"..
":>) JL
Convertible notes always increase the short position in a stock because of the convertible hedge...
Re: "The Up Coming Buyout.."
I have been hearing about this "buyout" since Dec 2010...And everyone was just as confident it was just around the corner back in those days..Frankly the BO guys in those days had a more compelling argument..That was JZ was brought in to "sell the company"..JZ sold Lovaza..."That was what JZ does..he sells companies."..
That was before some of you on the board were even born..
I have never been a big fan of a buyout...Even so I have softened over the years and currently are more in favor of a buyout or anything that could remove the "legal Stone" from Amarin's shoe. I believe some of you earnest buyout guys are making a mistake and are omitting some considerations..
Here is why...Even though BPs have more capital to spend on sales marketing that does not take in certain concerns..The first is an existing BP. is not going to be devoid of other drugs...those in trials and those already in the market..So you can not simply look at the size of the stash a BP has...You have to consider where this money is going to be allocated..and rest assured Vascepa will not be getting all of it.
When I was living up in the Boston area one of my golfing buddies was a high ranking exec at Genzyme...They got taken out by an enormous Swiss BP..What happened next is Genzyme rather than continuing its innovating ways...Is.. rather than all that new money ramping up new drugs..Genzyme died..You don't hear about it anymore..The reason is now there was a whole new gang calling the shots and they all had their pet projects and none of them was a Genzyme program..
Also consider that most BP have and exist on a hierarchy of management which in every way is similar to the fictional corporation.."Teldar Paper" in Oliver Stones movie "Wall Street." They had 26 Vice Presidents and as Gecko notes.."I have been studying them for months and I still can not not understand what any of them do"...
So now you buyout guys are not going to see your money all going to marketing and selling Vascepa..Because first of all; before that, all those middle managers are going to have to be paid...And if you are tired of seeing JT and the Amarin gang rip off the company, well you aint seen nothin yet...
":>) JL
jas....
Very compelling argument...sometimes the old remedies are the best remedies.
I look at at Fauci and see Rumpelstiltskin....
":>) JL
KIWI....
Nice find...I read "Lord of the Flies" many years ago...That and "Catcher in the Rye" were two "Books of Passage" in my school years..
Nice to hear there is an alternative reality as Lord of the Flies is pretty dark..
":>) JL
jasbg...
I agree with your post...Don't believe a word Fauci says..
":>) JL
KIWI...
Re: Self protection from CoVID-19....
The virus is not bypassing Orlando..Most everything is closed down..but....The Golf courses are for the most part still open although only one person to a golf cart..I don't wear a mask or a face shield...but I can see some rationale for it..(keeps your fingers out of your nose or mouth). Stores and restaurants are being opened with lowered capacity..
All these viruses go through a process called transmission...going from one person to another and for the most part the virus weakens..(did not happen in 1918...made a huge jump in the other direction)...A rule of thumb is the earlier you get the infection the more likely you are to die from it...So if you have not got it by now..good chance you will survive..
I play golf three days a week and practice two days...Not worried about getting the virus...But not traveling up to New York..
":>) JL
raf...
Like your reasoning here if the AC does not reverse Du...
Give the generics a taste of their own medicine.
":>) JL
Nick...
Please forgive me for jumping in on this..I'm pretty sure Slim (my old buddy would agree)..
The knee jerk to this announcement is "Well Its more debt or a potential dilution...but actually it is a very good move by the CEO...Right now INSG is a guns a blazing as far a new accounts..But even though their revenues are increasing their earnings on a PPS are not..
Diagnosis...They are spending too much money...and they have one note they are currently servicing which is over 9%...With bonds trading at close to zero percent..9% is loan shark rates...So What the company is doing is borrowing at 3.25% and paying off a 9.6% loan and that is similar to a "carry trade" and the best one I can ever remember..The rise of PPS to $15 (temporarily) allowed the company to get 12 dollar plus conversion rate in the note to common stock..That is great...If they just floated a secondary they probably would have only been able to get $10/ share...What they got is not malignant dilution...And they can force conversion which they have in the past..
I believe the market will quickly understand the Convertible is the medicine the company needs to lower the cost of debt and improve the earnings..With the revenues looking great we should be heading for above $15 very soon...
JMO...":>) JL
Slim....
Thanks for the info...I like what you have posted...Normally I am not a big fan of convertible notes because they bring the wolves (The hedge funds) to your door. But these convertibles seem to be very user friendly (3.25%) and will be put to use to pay off 9.24% interest bearing notes..Hard to argue with that..Getting a $12.61 conversion rate at this time is very good..(even though I think we are heading over $15 very soon.).
I think once the market digests that the PPS should head up above $15..Somebody said revenues are the name of the game at present and I agree..Still cutting down expenses such as Shylock notes is very important
And will be a big help regarding earnings..
The company seems very lucky to have Mondor running the show...
":>) JL
ntp....
Nice post..Left on their own...most (not all) but most adults will act for their own good..COVID-19 is not an airborne vector..It is spread within a narrow radius by small droplets by coughing or sneezing..(or drooling) onto surfaces or directly onto an individual within a narrow radius..say less than ten feet (to be conservative)...The virus is fragile and remains viable for only a few minutes when exposed to sun light..Most of the the infections are from hand to mouth from a contaminated surface..
We all for whatever reason tend to stick our fingers in our mouths or pick our noses or rub our eyes a lot more than we should have...And from a preventative stand point if we put a brace which prevented us from bending our elbows on everyone...The epidemic would be over in a week..
":>) JL
Quote: "Any thoughts."
Yeah..What took them so long?
":>) JL
G.
Nice synopsis...but you can take all this legal mumbo -jumbo and stick it, because if this Du determination stands then you can say good-bye to the entire FDA marketing process.
Who in their right mind is going to put up the money, millions and millions of dollars and all that time and risk...If some DC judge; who, can not even get her facts correct; can counterfeit the PTO opinion as to patent validity and make an end run around the the Hatch-Waxman legislation.
I am not a lawyer, but if this simple fact does not scream "Unintended
Consequences"; Those consequences being a chilling effect on future medical research. ...AND don't think the FDA, the USPTO, BP, the AHA, the ADA and the AMA are not going to be weighing in with Amicus Curiae(S).
Another thing I may be overlooking in your post is the fact the obligation to prove with clear and overwhelming evidence the patents were obvious is the responsibility of the defendents..But the judge instead charged Amarin with proving the patents were valid and this is clearly a procedural error which can be introduced in the appeal.
IMHO...Focusing on the line items which you have done a great job. Is a situation in which the sum of the total does not reflect the magnitude of the harm that this decision will do..And that is what the AC judges will consider if they are indeed wise..What will be the consequences if Du's opinion is upheld..And of course it is the job of Amarin's legal team to point this out..And Amarin will in all likelihood receive help from the drug and medical community..
The whole episode reminds me of Cyril and Hypatia. And the burning of the great library of Alexandria...
":>) JL
...Just for KIWI and your pleasures..
marjac....
Quote: "However, if this really is a "close call", then Amarin's management and their lawyers engaged in actionable recklessness and gross negligence by not settling the case before trial. Written words on a message board cannot even begin to describe the utter depravity of gambling the entire company on a "close call", as exemplified by the 70% one day drop in the stock price when the "close call" went the other way."
No...This was never "a close call"...Mori was not published in a peer reviewed medical journal..but rather in a "Nutritional journal" right along side articles like "What is a Vegetable?"..An Australian journal which was unlikely to be read by Australian MDs...The judge did not even get the results correct on an issue of Statistical Significance..She put her own slant on the patents which were approved (non obvious) by the PTO..And this was an approval based on a review of the initial PTO examiner..
Marjac...I know you are a smart lawyer...But so is Chris Sipes. Don't you think Covington would have told Amarin to settle if they thought this was a "close call"...The malpractice here is Judge Du and her LSD trip like verdict...She knew what she was going to do before this trial ever began..We may not know what the motivation was..but it is for certain she violated the most important tenet of a bench trial..And that is impartiality...I know a Federal Judge can not be fired...but what she did should be grounds for execution...
":>) JL
TTE...
You are onto something...It's called "TAAS"..stands for Trnsportation As A Service.
There would only be a very miniscule percent of people who own or drive their own private cars..(Like the rich who ride horses today)..Cars and other forms of transportation would be autonomous (driverless) and owned by large corporations...You would have an account and arrange pickup and delivery to where ever you want to go...Autonomous autos have already shown they can drive better than humans...Which would cut down on auto accidents and injuries in terms of millions of dollars..
Private vehicles are expensive and not very efficient as they are only used in most cases a small percentage of the day..TAAS vehicles would obey the speed and traffic laws...And would cut down on traffic fines and lawyer fees..Saving billions on the economy which could be used for more beneficial purposes..Currently Parking lots make up a substantial percent of the the areas of major cities..This is acreage that could be used for better purpose..
":>) JL