IMS HEALTH
July 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has ordered American medicines information company IMS HEALTH (IMS) to abandon its refusal to allow rivals to copy its pharmaceutical sales and prescriptions data collection system in Germany.In an unusual step, Brussels has used its powers as a competition authority to tell IMS to immediately licence the use of its 1860 brick structure method, over which it has copyright, "on commercial terms."The Commission said that it had acted because competitors NDC Health, also of the USA and AzyX Geopharma Services, of Belgium, had ...
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