Are laboratory notebooks necessary in a first inventor to file world?

Deborah L. Lu
Vedder Price P.C.
Thomas Kowalski
Vedder Price P.C.
Smitha Uthaman
Vedder Price P.C.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5912/jcb560

Abstract:

The importance of laboratory notebooks was long touted in the US to prove a date of invention. With the dawning of a first-to-file era in the US, the importance of laboratory notebooks has been questioned. A perspective on the importance of laboratory notebooks is provided as well as an answer to the question whether laboratory notebooks are necessary in a first-to-file regime.

Keywords:patent ,notebook ,AIA ,en ,