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Never before in our nation’s history has a technological revolution skirted governmental regulation like the internet. The industrial revolution saw the rise of giant corporations, followed by the legislation of strict corporate and securities law regulations. The newfound

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

mobility of the country led to a more recent communications revolution as telegraph lines were installed along rail road tracks. Suddenly, any person in the country was virtually at the touch of a dial. Again, like a Pavlovian dog, the government followed suit by institu

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ing strict regulations governing the use and control over the means of communication. Then we come to the true information revolution, of which we are still in the early years. The internet has expanded faster and more thoroughly than any of the previous technological revo

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

utions. However, because the internet is not in one particular location, governmental internet regulation has been slow to react. Jurisdictional issues aside, governments have struggled to determine an efficient manner to regulate internet use, while still allowing for th

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

e ideas of free speech to flow freely.

Because of the openness of the internet and the anonymity involved, internet regulation is difficult to design and almost impossible to enforce. The internet can be a great learning tool for school students of all ages, but online pre

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ators pose a significant threat to the most vulnerable group of internet users, children. Social networking sites continue to increase in popularity and expand in use. Myspace.com, facebook.com and classmates.com are only a few of the many networking sites available. Ad

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

itionally, there are countless numbers of chat rooms available on the internet where a person’s identity can be rendered virtually untraceable. All of these sites and chat rooms pose significant threats to the welfare of children.

Partially in response to the expansion of t

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

hese types of internet types, Congress passed the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”). [For full text see, http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm ] COPPA is aimed at websites that offer service

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

directly to children under age 13, but it is also aimed at websites making their services available to children under age 13, despite not being the primary users. COPPA requires such websites to:

Post a privacy policy with links to the notice

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

provided on the home page and at each area where the site or online service collects personal information from children;

Detail how the operator of the website uses the personal information and whether it is disclosed to third parties;

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

Describe every kind of information collected from children, such as, name, address, e-mail address, hobbies, and age;

Institute procedures that “protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information collected from chi

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ldren."

Provide parents with contact information for all operators collecting or maintaining children's personal information;

Allow parents to review, correct, and delete information about their children collected by such services; an

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

Obtain parental consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information about a child under the age of 13.

Services such as Myspace.com and facebook.com clearly run the risk of violating COPPA simply by allowing children under t

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

e age of 13 to use their services without providing parental notification. Companies offering such online services have a duty to institute procedures that demonstrate due diligence in verifying the ages of its users. Failure to implement proper procedures can give rise t

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

o substantial fines and potential civil liability. Recently, a social networking site named Xanga, which allows for the creation of blogs and personal web pages, was fined $1 million dollars by the Federal Trade Commission (FCC) for its failure to comply fully with the Chi

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

d Online Privacy Protection Act. Xanga had been allowing children under the age of 13 to create online accounts without parental notification, and they also did not provide adequate means for parents to access their children’s accounts. The fine is the largest of its kind

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ever implemented under the COPPA. Other significant fines instituted by the Federal Trade Commission for violations of COPPA have been handed down to companies such as toysmart.com (no longer in existence), American Popcorn Company and Lisa Frank, Inc., all for violations

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

of the COPPA.

As social networking sites continue to increase in popularity, so will the fines. Additionally, it is also likely that in the not so distant future we will see a push for statutorily created civil liability to allow parents to bring lawsuits partially based

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

n COPPA violations. If you have a client that is thinking about beginning a networking site, or already has, it is important to ensure that all policies are in compliance with COPPA. COPPA has recently been renewed and will likely soon be expanded in its reach, as more an

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

more predators lurk the internet through social networking sites. The best way to protect any clients that run such networking sites is to do everything possible to protect the children who use that site. Failure to do so may soon prove costly to both attorney and client

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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