Again, no one here seems to agree with this, but two things appear clear to me:
- It takes pretty big rocks to claim in a public filing to the Supreme Court that you have your opponents dead to rights in discovery unless you're holding the smoking gun. The evidence must be overwhelming. And when you have overwhelming evidence in a civil jury trial, you go for summary judgment.
- Even if Amarin doesn't get summary judgment, Hikma can't roll these dice. If Amarin is right about the evidence, Hikma knows it, too. They know they're dead. They HAVE to at least try to settle. What else explains the abrupt firing of Hikma's CEO with no transition, with the CEO vanishing from the website instantaneously?
If I am right about those two things, the timeframe for resolution of the US market could be accelerated substantially.