The SMi Group held their annual ELN conference in London last week, under the title ‘ELN: Laboratory Informatics for the 21st Century’. The programme contained a full range of good quality presentations on all aspects of ELNs and related topics that represented the state of the industry. As with most conferences on this [...]

The subject of raw data has crept into the vocabulary of the media recently with alleged wrong doings amongst scientists in connection with data related to climate change.  The matter has unsurprisingly been dubbed ‘climategate’ and is currently chalking up over 28,000,000 hits on Google.  The underlying issues, if they are real, are political, and [...]

This is Colin Sandercock’s presentation on the legal issues of ELNs, presented at the IQPC ELNs and Advanced Laboratory Solutions Conference in Brussels, September 2009.
With grateful thanks to Colin for permission to post the presentation here.
Legal Issues Of ELNs
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Elizabeth Moritz started an interesting post on Nature Network entitled I Want YOU…to write in your lab notebook.  Interestingly, the post is not about technology, just the discipline of keeping a lab notebook.  The comments are particularly revealing, and well worth reading!

The late development of the ELN market is often attributed to concern over the legal acceptance of electronic records in patent litigation and patent interferences.  When it comes to IP protection, risk taking doesn’t figure high on the agenda.  But when you look more closely, it’s the first-to-invent, first-to–file difference between the US and the [...]