>From the article linked below, it sounds like the patent office no longer considers Wikipedia an acceptable research source. However, in general a lab notebook is generally used to document the time and inventor of the patentable invention. So it is not clear to me that the patent office would necessarily reject original invention documentation using a wiki (
i.e. lab notebook) as invalid.<br><br>-Reshma<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:tk@csail.mit.edu">tk@csail.mit.edu</a></b> <<a href="mailto:tk@csail.mit.edu">
tk@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The patent office has decided wikis are not good information sources.
<br>This likely has implications to users doing lab notebooks etc. in a<br>wiki like format.<br><br><a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1168336936842">http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1168336936842</a><br>
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