...they would be foolish not too even if they have 99% certainty tLovenox will never obtain approval, IMHO.
Who can say what the future holds?
If you were NVSs CEO, would you lay out $1 billion in present dollars given the possibility, a possibility that you would be hard-pressed to quantify, that TEVAs generic got approved?
I sure wouldn't - so I only have $.1 billion in MNTA!