I know that I promised a hard-hitting post on infringement stats in ANDA cases, and I was really going to post the update this time—really! But then the very first case I read had a neat issue that deserved a post on its own. We can only hope I remember to get to it next week.

In the meantime, today I have the rare case where the Court actually granted an adverse inference as a discovery sanction.
Central to infringement in Novartis Pharms. Corp v. MSN Pharms Inc., C.A. No. 22-1395-RGA, D.I. 523 (D. Del. July 11, 2025), was a factual issue that is only of interest to analytical chemistry …