Scientific society loses multimillion-dollar court battle

A ten year court battle waged by the world’s largest scientific society reached a critical juncture today when the Ohio Supreme Court handed down itslong-awaited verdict in ACS versus Leadscope, a case that began in 2002 when the non-profit American Chemical Society sued three former employees of its highly lucrative Chemical Abstracts Service, accusing them of stealing its intellectual property and using it to start Leadscope, a chemical information company based in Columbus, Ohio.  Read more

Father of GPS accused of conflict of interest

Father of GPS accused of conflict of interest

Any battle over use of the electromagnetic spectrum is likely to provoke intense interest among physical scientists. Now a senior Stanford engineer is likely to trigger discussion, after being rapped by the NASA Inspector-General for advising that one company’s wireless networking plans might interfere with Global Positioning System devices, when he had a financial interest in a GPS service provider.  Read more