chas123, how come the market and US patent holders were not aware of this corrupt "legal" program? Or the hidden Du ambition to blow up Amarin? thanks for the info.
(un)aware of the Patent Pilot Program and Du's participation in it until fairly recently. I give some links about that in my summary. Hard to believe this would be allowed to happen and go uncorrected in the US. We're in uncharted territory these days.
BTW, the Patent Pilot Program was tried for 10 years and then allowed to expire, about 6 months after the Vascepa case. But, Du, who is now the lead judge in her district, liked the program so she's on record saying she'll continue it in her district despite the program's cancellation nationally.
Giving inexperienced judges extra patent cases for OJT isn't crazy, but a brand new student driver shouldn't be out on the streets without an instructor, and shouldn't start off at the Indy 500 first thing. Her indefensible ruling will probably cost over a million lives over a period of years IMO.
For your analogy to make sense, Judge Du as the student driver would need to skip the empty parking lot and floor it straight to the nearest freeway, insistently driving on the opposite side of the road.
Your pining for more informed judges is nice, but do you really think that she was intellectually honest about the information presented to her?