I'd also like to add Judge Du's take on "motivation to combine" is so overly expansive it eclipses objective indicia of long-felt need. Her words:
The Court is persuaded that there was a long-felt need for a drug like Vascepa that could reduce TG levels without raising LDL-C levels, primarily because both sides’ experts testified that patients are more likely to comply with a prescribed treatment regime when they only have to take one pill, rather than two—and the Court relied on this evidence in finding a POSA would be motivated to combine the Lovaza PDR with the finding from Mori that EPA did not raise LDL-C levels
How can anything have a long-felt need without being obvious for motivation to combine? Does anything get patented under Judge Du's precedent?
Never mind the SCs, I can never get past the fact that the ignorant wench found anything clear and convincing with studies that did not even involve subjects with the patented condition.