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 [...]

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 [...]

I don’t think there is any doubt that the uptake of Electronic Lab Notebooks was slowed down by concerns about the admissibility of electronic evidence in patent interferences and litigation cases.  Those concerns are more or less history now, and there’s enough information and good advice around for anybody about to embark on an ELN [...]