Rocket docket speeds patent infringement suits
Intellectual property and science, particularly biotechnology, go hand-in-hand. In the highly competitive science and technology community, patents, copyrights, and trade...Merge president steps down in wake of shareholder suits
Bill Mortimore, who founded the company and served as its chief executive officer from 1987 to 2000, has been appointed...Merge's merger is the crux of shareholder lawsuits
Alleging that members of its management team violated federal securities law, shareholders of , a developer of medical imaging and information management software, have filed se...Third Wave agrees to drop Chiron, Bayer patent lawsuits
Third Wave said that no licenses or payments were made and did not disclose other terms of the agreement. This leaves Third Wave with only one remaining open patent...Third Wave files patent suits against Digene, Chiron and Bayer
The company last Friday filed suit against seeking a court ruling supp...Doctors' decisions are affected by fear of lawsuits- says a study
Physicians treating people in emergencies may be asking patients to go for more tests// and procedures if they are afraid of being named in a lawsuit for malpractice. In a study done by researchers from University of Iowa had said that fear of being sued for malpractice may be the guiding point in treating patients by the emergency doctors, especially for those who are more afraid of a...Leisurely Pursuits Tune The Brain
A new study has revealed that leisurely pursuits of people appear to tune the brain of people, while also keeping Alzheimer's disease at bay. //The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons’ neuropsychologist Yaakov Stern led the research study. As many as 1,800 older adults were studied over a period of seven years during the course of the research. The more leisurely p...UCI Liver Program jinxed with 4 more lawsuits
University of California was slapped with four additional law suits, after the Liver Transplant Program of the UCI Medical center had failed miserably. // Orange county Superior court has been a witness to three claims filed by the families of patients who died just waiting for the transplants; the fourth, a patient who never received a liver. The liver transplant program...India-Born 'Dr Death' Faces Civil Suits
An India-born surgeon Jayant Patel, referred as "Dr Death" by the media, faces manslaughter charges in Sydney, Australia followed by further investigations //on the death of another patient of the doctor. It has also been revealed that some of Patel's victims have instructed Nicol Robinson Halletts, a Brisbane based law firm, to take the unprecedented step of initiating civil action to...Fast-Multiplying Lawsuits Can Stymie Medical Science, Authors Warn
Class-action lawsuits can significantly slow or halt science's ability to establish links between neurological illness and environmental //factors produced by industry, a team of scientists and lawyers warns in the journal Neurology. The authors caution that litigation's effects could seriously impair efforts to identify compounds that contribute to a wide variety of diseases, includin...