A recent amendment to the Italian Data Protection Code (Legislative Decree 196/03) prevents researcher to re-use genetic data in projects different than those the data are collected for. Continue reading “The Italian Data Protection Code To Bash Genetic Research in Italy”
Stop Apple and Google To Take Over Our Cars
Google just announced its “Android Auto” platform, while Apple already did ? it with Carplay. Both platforms require an Internet connection and, it is just matter of time, will become more and more deeply interconnected with the car control system.
But software do fail. It fails because there’s no such thing as a bug-free software, it fails because people do mistakes, it fails because the software house’s roadmap not necessarily matches the final users’ safety.
And I don’t care about the usual PR stunts such as “as soon as we discovered the bug we did our best to fix it the fastest way” or “since the xyz library is licensed and proprietary we can’t keep responsibility for the way the software behave” or, finally, “if you just read the EULA you will find that it is clearly stated that we don’t take any responsibility for blah, blah, blah…”
This is a price we cannot afford to pay.
The “Specialist” Lawyer… Whatever It Means
An upcoming regulation – still in draft – will regulate the possibility for an Italian lawyer to call himself “specialist” of something. This “specialist patch” will be obtained by either attending seminars and courses or by showing evidence of practicing in a specific field (BTW, in the mandatory list of field of practice, there are no reference to high-tech, pharma and telco topics.)
I wonder which company has ever chosen a lawyer just because of the patches he stuck on his gown.
Monsanto to challenge EU biotech inventions directive
The EU Court of Justice will soon issue a decision on a biotech-patent case filed by Monsanto Technology LLC trying to broaden the scope of the EU directive on biotechnological inventions.
On March, 9 2010 EU Court’s Attorney General released an opinion, although not forcing the Court to accept it – ? dismissing Monsanto’s legal claims.
Italian Biotech Facts and Trends 2008 released
Biopolo just released its annual report on Italian Biotech industry. Here is the link.