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  • bb254 replied to the topic Legal Contracts in the forum Introduction to Advanced Medical Device Development 7 years, 4 months ago

    Personally, I have not experienced working out a legal contract at work first hand. However, I was informed that our company had a major fall through with a legal contract with a warehouse that distributes our main products. The timeframe to finalize the contract had taken months because the legal department had to be involved. After the contract was completed, a month later our company was forced to break the contract. This is not a normal occurrence, but the warehouse was not prepared to take in our orders. They were not abiding to the requirements that our company had set; therefore, the legal team and managers decided to break the contract or else the company would lose so many customers and clients. The cost of breaking the contract was enormous. As a result, any future legal contracts that our company makes is highly scrutinized. Since I work with class II medical devices that are used internationally, we do have legal contracts such as C.R Bard. Trademark names and registered titles are stated all throughout our product documentation. So, any updates to product documentation such as instructions for use must be approved by our legal department.