Category Archives: Legal

Wow, an understandable NDA

By Simon Coles | Published: December 25, 2009
I’m not sure I’ll ever see something like this cross my desk, but this is a refreshing change from the standard densely-worded missive that I often get asked to sign: A non disclosure agreement people can understand on leanstartups.com. (as an aside, we generally prefer to sign mutual NDAs rather that one-sided ones – just as [...]
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Presentation on Scientists & Lawyers

By Simon Coles | Published: June 16, 2009
One of the things that’s always interested me is how to reconcile the sometimes conflicting needs and cultures of scientists and lawyers. With some up-front communication and awareness, things can go smoothly – but sadly that communication doesn’t happen until there’s a problem. I’m just about to give the following presentation at VIB’s Informatics Conference [...]
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Slides from Yesterday’s Conference Presentation

By Simon Coles | Published: April 22, 2009
Here’s the slides from my presentation at IPQC’s “Data Management and Knowledge Discovery” conference in Frankfurt, Germany – 21/22 April 2009. I followed Colin Sandercock (one of the leading lawyers in the area of Patent Law who did a lot to make ELNs a reality), Colin talked about what the lawyers need, so I talked [...]
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Electronic voting

By Simon Coles | Published: November 1, 2006
The upcoming US elections are causing a lot of people to focus on the use of electronic voting systems and the inherent issues that result. At one level this doesn’t have a lot to do with using ELNs, but it is essentially the same problem – how do you use a computer system to record [...]
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I don’t think the Enterprise has really woken up to DRM yet

By Simon Coles | Published: September 13, 2006
DRM is beginning to make an entrance into the Enterprise, and whilst at one level the technologies sound attractive I’m not sure the longer term, deeper consequences are all that palatable. I do wonder what the lawyers will think (because a Judge is unlikely to be impressed by arbitrary restrictions imposed by some DRM system) [...]
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