Veeva Systems Inc. v. IQVIA Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
INTRODUCTION
17 In this antitrust action, defendants move to dismiss, stay, or transfer. Plaintiff opposes. 18 19 For the following reasons, the motion to transfer is GRANTED.
STATEMENT
20 Central to this action are the following life sciences data and software products: 21 reference data, sales data, commercial data warehouse software, customer relationship 22 management software, and master data management software. 23 Life sciences reference data includes the names, contact information, and affiliations of 24 doctors, hospitals, clinics, and other medical professionals and organizations. Life sciences 25 companies purchase and use such information for sales, marketing, and compliance purposes. 26 Life sciences sales data tracks the prescriptions written and volumes of drugs sold in a given 27 geographic region. Life sciences companies use such data to analyze their product performance 28 1 Life sciences companies use commercial data warehouse software to store, organize, and 2 analyze their reference and sales data. Life sciences companies use customer relationship 3 management software to collate, automate, and synchronize their reference and sales data in 4 …