Affidavits originating from a person with close links to the party concerned are of less probative value than third-party affidavits and must thus be supplemented by further objective evidence.

The Court first addressed the probative value of Apotex’s patent dance letters, in which Apotex represented that its process had a protein concentration of 0.9-1.4 g/L (i.e., an infringing range ...