Intellectual Property Protection in the Digital Age

摘要

For most biotechnology and biopharmaceutical organizations, "business as usual" means a perpetual race to the finish line: Conceive a new invention, reduce it to practice, attain patent protection, repeat ad infinitum. But sometimes, the very technologies scientists use to expedite that chain of events (e.g., electronic laboratory notebooks and cloud-based laboratory data sharing) create security and authenticity holes. In essence, the more agile and sophisticated our workflow systems become, the more difficult it. becomes to guarantee the integrity of our underlying data. In today's aggressively litigious climate, even the slightest, most theoretical potential for data inauthenticity is enough to invalidate years of arduous research and development.