Quality Good Laboratory Notebook Practice Laboratory notebooks can be an integral part of a company's controlled documentation but must be managed carefully to ensure quality. John A. DeLucia ...

An important task for in-house counsel is managing laboratory notebook practices. Laboratory notebooks are where inventions start, and they are key to successful patent enforcement. This article ...

I was consulting with a colleague (a tenured principal investigator) whose lab had an internal disagreement about a research ...

Laboratory notebooks contain a literal wealth of information to advance research enterprise-wide, to protect and support patents, and to streamline the regulatory submissions process—if only they ...

In some countries, Europe, for example, an invention belongs to the first person to file a patent for it. In the United States, the conception determines ownership of an invention. In other words, an ...

Erin Bedford is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo and in Chemistry at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) in a co-supervised program. I’ve always had a ...

Quick quiz: Your company develops a patentable innovation six months before your competitor. Who is entitled to a U.S. patent for that invention? The answer? It depends. Under U.S. patent law, the ...

Scientists have long depended on pen and paper to record their observations, filling volumes of lab notebooks with their work. While Charles Darwin’s drawings and diagrams or Albert Einstein’s ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Electronic laboratory notebooks can be a valuable part of a college science education but are not yet a substitute for traditional paper laboratory notebooks, according to a Duke ...

When the coronavirus pandemic closed the University of Minnesota in St Paul, plant pathologist Linda Kinkel’s laboratory team cast around for tasks they could do from home. They realized there was one ...

Quality Laboratory notebooks can be an integral part of a company's controlled documentation but must be managed carefully to ensure quality. John A. DeLucia Manufacturers must consider many factors ...