I think he did not get enough credit to setup MARINE, ANCHOR and recruit Dr. Bhatt to chair REDUCE-IT. There is nothing he could have done to stop the FDA from rescinding the ANCHOR SPA.
All the patents have been aggressively vetted through patent back and forth; this is a long and factual process. You can’t easily get a patent....
The Marine R-I patent is very solid with a game changer clinical trial as a non-obvious argument; think of Dr. Nissen taking the stand for Amarin and going over his library of Vascepa/R-I/mineral oil statements.