Etrials will pay $1.75 million to settle a patent infringement lawsuit with a Maryland firm. The Morrisville company, which provides software to help run clinical trials of drugs and medical devices, says the settlement means that it will have no future monetary obligations to the Maryland firm, Datasci LLC, which sued Etrials in 2006. The Datasci case is a quirk of the patent system, in which the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in 2002 essentially granted the company a patent on running clinical trials over the Internet - even though Etrials and other companies in the space had been doing just that for years.

Posted by GEN-ERIC at 12:54:01 am into the following categories: In The News

---

http://gen-eric.com/patents/htsrv/trackback.php/1415

Name:

Email: (not displayed on this site)

Site/Url:

Comment text:

Allowed XHTML tags: <p, ul, ol, li, dl, dt, dd, address, blockquote, ins, del, a, span, bdo, br, em, strong, dfn, code, samp, kdb, var, cite, abbr, acronym, q, sub, sup, tt, i, b, big, small>

URLs, email, AIM and ICQs will be converted automatically.

Options:
Auto-BR (Line breaks become <br />)
Remember me (Set cookies for name, email & url)