QSAR/QSPR and Proprietary Data

Myriad after Myriad: the Proprietary Data Dilemma.

Myriad Genetics' long-time monopoly on BRCA gene testing was significantly narrowed by the Supreme Court's decision in AMP v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., and will be further narrowed in the next few years as many of its still-valid patents expire. But these developments have not caused the company to acquiesce in competition. Instead, it has launched a litigation offensive against a number of actual...

Proprietary data systems: help or hindrance?

Efficient Proprietary Certification Process and Secured Theft-Protected Proprietary Certificates

This paper presents a new simple scheme for theft-protected proprietary certificate problem by introducing a mobile phone as an additional requirement for the proprietor and this scheme is analyzed to be more secured than the one presented by M. Jakobsson, et al. Secondly we present the proprietary certification process using Elliptic Curve Discrete Log Problem (ECDLP) instead of Discrete Log P...

Partnership dissolution and proprietary information

This paper looks at different rules in dissolving a common value partnership when one partner holds proprietary information. In winner’s bid auction (WBA) and loser’s bid auction (LBA), there exists unique mixed strategy equilibrium. “Payoff equivalence” is established in the sense that partners’ expected payoffs are the same under the two auction formats. The informed partner benefits from an ...

Proprietary Certificates ( Extended Abstract )

Certificates play an essential role in public-key cryptography, and are likely to become a cornerstone of commerce-related applications. Traditional certificates, however, are not secure against certificate lending, i.e., a situation in which a certificate holder voluntarily shares with others the rights bestowed upon him through a certificate. This type of abuse is a concern in several types o...