It’s much more than a hope, IMO, because it doesn’t make sense for MNTA to decline the opt-in on FoB’s where MNTA itself did the reverse engineering to make the programs viable.
The only way I could see MNTA declining the opt-in on compounds #3-#6 is if MNTA’s cash balance were expected to be drastically reduced as a result of losing the patent case against Amphastar.
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