{"id":1283,"date":"2009-12-21T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T03:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lotempiolaw.default.wp1.lexblog.com\/2009\/12\/inventors-notebook\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:46:20","slug":"inventors-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/2009\/12\/what-inventors-need-to-know\/inventors-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventor&#8217;s notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Inventors should know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A lab notebook containing accurate records can preserve patent rights. A laboratory notebook should include information such as:\u00a0 how the inventor came up with the idea; when the idea was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/web\/offices\/pac\/mpep\/documents\/2100_2138_05.htm#sect2138.05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;reduced to practice;&#8221;<\/a> and evidence of invention such a hard copy of e-mail\u00a0 communications.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the most visible inventions from the last two centuries were disputed in court as to who invented it first. <a href=\"\">Philo Farnsworth <\/a>invented the television and RCA argued against the patent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Graham_Bell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Graham Bell<\/a> filed a patent application and later that same day <a href=\"https:\/\/inventors.about.com\/od\/gstartinventors\/a\/Elisha_Gray.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elisha Gray<\/a>\u00a0 filed a patent caveat for the telephone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><u><strong>A few tips on maintaining a laboratory notebook:<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11525 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/science_book_8982.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"172\" \/><\/strong><\/u><\/h4>\n<p>1. Use permanently bound, numbered laboratory notebook<\/p>\n<p>2. Describe the work so that it can be repeated in your absence<\/p>\n<p>3. Write in ink<\/p>\n<p>4. Permanently attach any printouts<\/p>\n<p>5. Have your notebook witnessed regularly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inventors should know&#8230; A lab notebook containing accurate records can preserve patent rights. A laboratory notebook should include information such as:\u00a0 how the inventor came up with the idea; when the idea was &#8220;reduced to practice;&#8221; and evidence of invention such a hard copy of e-mail\u00a0 communications. Two of the most visible inventions from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[201,293,344,496],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-inventors-need-to-know","tag-evidence","tag-inventor","tag-lab-notebook","tag-reduced-to-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lotempiolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}