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Bound lab books with printed numbers on the pages are, I am led to believe, at the forefront of any technical defence of a patent or discovery. You just can’t
by gorgoiler 3y ago
Bound lab books with printed numbers on the pages are, I am led to believe, at the forefront of any technical defence of a patent or discovery. You just can’t fake ‘em.
This is why I record all my ideas in a lab journal — a cargo cult it may be but we’ll see who’s laughing when I finally invent homomorphic encryption / perpetual motion / alchemy!
- throwaway87651 3y agoThat's no longer true. The US used to use "first to invent" to determine patent rights, but it was changed to "first to file" in 2013. It's no longer necessary to prove when you first invented something, it's now just a matter of checking filing dates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_invent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_i...
- Tomte 3y agoIt can still be useful to prove prior use, though. It doesn't invalidate the patent, if unpublished, but let's you keep using it.