Dear Jurist:
We have in front of us the case of a very small company who took a tremendous financial risk to seek scientific truth to improve the health of humankind. There was no guarantee that their endeavors would produce positive results and like many startups they they could have lost everything. Unlike many big pharmaceutical firms who are laden with cash and have numerous products - this startup company has one and only one medication upon which they risked everything. Like any inventor this small company thought its intellectual property would be protected by our patent system.
The irony here is that the patent system DOES Protect the utilization of this medication for the preventions an treatment of coronary disease.
Unfortunately , unscrupulous insurers have found a way to bypass these patents undermining all the efforts of this company literally destroying them in the process.
Ask yourself "Is this Fair?"
SAy you spent 10 years and your life savings developing a product that no one thought would work. You have proven them wrong and are now taking the next steps, spending and borrowing millions to establish manufacturing, advertising, trade representative and all the myriad of system that one must have to sell and distribute your product ... your life's dream. And now just when everything is about to come to fruition someone copies your idea having expended no time or money - they just steal your idea even though your patent says they cant by utilizing a
conniving wrinkle in the law
Do you think that is fair ? If so then you should find Healthnet not Guilty but if you think actions like this, stealing and undermining small start up companies, bypassing legal patents for their personal financial gain are morally and legally wrong then you should find for AMRN
The idea is to help the jurist be AMRN - would the jurist want this to happen to them or a family member - take it down to the personal level
