Inventor's notebook
Inventors should know...
A lab notebook containing accurate records can preserve patent rights. A laboratory notebook should include information such as: how the inventor came up with the idea; when the idea was "reduced to practice;" and evidence of invention such a hard copy of e-mail communications.
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m the last two centuries were disputed in court as to who invented it first. Philo Farnsworth invented the television and RCA argued against the patent.
Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent application and later that same day Elisha Gray filed a patent caveat for the telephone.
A few tips on maintaining a laboratory notebook:
1. Use permanently bound, numbered laboratory notebook
2. Describe the work so that it can be repeated in your absence
3. Write in ink
4. Permanently attach any printouts
5. Have your notebook witnessed regularly
Basic but sound advice. I'm sure to record everything I work on. There are many decent lab notebooks at http://www.bookfactory.com/lab-notebooks.htm. I'm sure there are others that are similar, but I settled on these books because I can have them customized for a fair price. Great quality, too. Hope this is useful.
I already purchased 2 AMPAD Computation Books. Are these acceptable? Pages are numbered, but they are perm. bound by 23 holes with metal rings. No perfs. Pages are also off white, not white. Thanks