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White Paper: Digital lab notebook and intellectual property protection
Labforward GmbH Elsenstr. 106, 12435 Berlin, Germany www.labforward.io Contact| Labforward Team contact@labforward.io +49 (0)30 / 91572642 White Paper: Digital lab notebook and intellectual property protectionTABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction 2 The legal system of the European Patent Office (EPO) 3 The legal system of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) 4 Digital lab notebooks and intellectual property protection 6 1Introduction Securing intellectual property is crucial to any innovative organization that seeks commercialization of their inventions and derived products. Laboratory notebooks have played a central role in securing intellectual property, as, given they keep to laboratory standards and regulations, they provide proof of invention according to the First to Inven