ELN Authentication. ELN AuthenticationNavigating a Sea of Options In an increasingly electronic R&D world, data must be stored securely for privacy, intellectual property protection, quality, regulatory, and for competitive reasons.
As organizations move from controlled paper notebooks to an open and collaborative ELN work environment, there are record management risks that must be addressed. Valuable intellectual property can be subject to theft, and databases are susceptible to data-altering malware and hackers. An organization must have consistent, audited and proven record management practices that are enforced across the entire spectrum of their R&D operations. The effective management and control of e-records assists in their admission into a U.S. court proceeding, either for civil suits or patent interferences.
Authentication technology Fortunately, to avoid being lucky, there are a number of technologies used with ELN products to establish the authenticity of both users and records. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Nolo's Intellectual Property Blog: Digital Signatures and Electronic Lab Notebooks. Digital Signatures and Electronic Lab Notebooks Dear Rich: I'm working on developing a electronic lab notebook (ELN) for researchers.
I need to understand what is really required from the digital signatures in order for the ELN entries to stand up in court. The first thing that needs to be demonstrated is that the entry has not changed since it was digitally signed by the author or authors. This is done by creating a "unique" hash value of the ELN entry. The characteristics of these hash values are that if the ELN entry is changed then the hash generation procedure will not create the same hash value, thus demonstrating that the ELN record has been changed. Imagine this. What do patent attorneys think? Others may differ. In summary. New Debates over Intellectual Property Protection and ELN. New Debates over Intellectual Property Protection and ELNProper attention must be paid to organizational policies to minimize litigation risks During the first five years of the “modern” age of ELN, people deliberated the capabilities of ELN to support intellectual property (IP) at various seminars and conferences.
Questions such as “How can ELN protect intellectual property?” And “Are ELN admissible into court?” Were extensively discussed. In those days, large pharmaceutical companies — a majority of the early adopters of the technology and the majority of the overall ELN customer base — had the greatest concerns. With changes to U.S. court procedures in late 2006 accepting electronic records with equal weight to other forms of evidence,1 there was a general easing of fears and a greater acceptance of the technology.
It is interesting to note the majority of large pharmaceutical companies do not even consider ELN to be the primary repository of IP. In another example, Glaser v. Electronic lab notebook (ELN) comparison. The lab is an important place where discoveries are made, whether the lab is virtual or whether the lab is a physical space where experiments are conducted.
It is also a place where the data is acquired, compared and finally conclusions drawn to make the discoveries possible. One feature that is common to most labs is the lab notebook. There are many vendors that have the lab notebook as a product but somehow there does not seem to have enough gained momentum to have a universal product that is easily transferable. This has also been discussed in the nature article as listed below: The case may be the simplicity. Mediawiki: This is a Wikipedia software but has been proposed for creating a lab notebook because of its flexibility in users and incorporating media from various sources.
Electronic lab notebook: This is an open source version that is available on Sourceforge. Indigo ELN: This is more of a chemistry ELN rather than a universal ELN solution. Scientific Computing, August 2013 - Olive Software. LIMSWiki. PerkinElmer Informatics (CambrigeSoft) GGA Software Services. LIMS. STARLIMS. LABVANTAGE (LIMS & BI)