Amarin Corp Plc (AMRN)

[marjac]

sts, let's take a step back.

The Trial Transcripts were not 140,000 pages.

Day 1 - 350 pages
Day 2 - 376 pages
Day 3 - 341 pages
Day 4 - 347 pages
Day 5 - 384 pages
Day 6 - 253 pages
Day 7 - 280 pages

Rest assured that the deposition transcripts were nowhere near a million pages. I think you might be referring to Singer's Appendix which was over 111,000 pages, but keep in mind most of that is superfluous. One need only look at the parties' Appellate Briefs, to see that only a small fraction of those pages were actually cited/referenced in the Briefs.

There is little if any "guessing" as to how Hikma planned to attack the patents. Several years of pretrial discovery and motion practice are expressly designed to hash out each side's position, and the basis therefor.

The Court does not want to sift through hundreds of thousands of pages either. Thus under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Local Rules, there are requirements to set forth proposed Findings of Fact in the Final Pretrial Order, along with Trial Briefs, and Proposed Post-Trial Findings of Fact (where the cropped table first appeared). All of these filings narrow the case concisely for the Court's, and the parties' consideration.

Given the foregoing, litigation counsel in every case no matter how simple or complex are duty bound to know their adversary's plan of attack in detail, and then counter their adversary's plan in accordance with governing standards of practice.