It’s hardly the most exciting subject, but long term retention is one of those topics that seem to lurk in the background whenever the subject of electronic records comes up.  With several centuries experience behind us, we’ve learned quite a bit about preserving paper records; Leonardo Da Vinci wrote his notes over 500 years ago, [...]

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 [...]

The Cloud: Tomorrow’s EDD Challenge is an article by Nolan M.Goldberg and Sharada Devarasetty published on the www.law.com website.  Although not directly dealing with any laboratory IP concerns, it does make some general points about the possible impact of cloud computing with regard to electronic discovery and this will have relevance to anyone giving thought [...]