Pfizer-owned Array BioPharma Inc. has dropped claims that an Eli Lilly subsidiary and a handful of its scientists stole trade secrets.

Array dismissed its claims against Loxo Oncology Inc. on Dec. 27, six months after a Colorado judge denied Array a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the scientists from working at Loxo, and six weeks after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit sounded inclined to affirm him.