Talk:Biogen Idec

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[edit] History

The huge chunk of unwikified text which was the history section appeared to be taken directly from another Web site which specializes in business histories. Rather than go through the whole copyvio process, since the history section was defective in so many other ways, I just deleted it. There is some good material here, and if it could be summarized and properly attributed it would be worth including. (However, it said very little about the history of Idec, and from a legal and financial point of view, Biogen Idec's corporate history is that of Idec, not Biogen; even though the Biogen management took over after Biogen and Idec merged, it was Idec that bought Biogen and Idec was the surviving company in the merger. This can be verified from SEC filings.) 121a0012 (talk) 06:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)