Organization for the win
Jan. 17th, 2008 19:11![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillI now have a formal lab book to record my bread experiments in. I've spent the last half-hour recording the previous ones, and it's all ready for the next time I bake.
It's all very impressive -- one of the graph-paper, speckled-cover "Lab Book"s that you find in college bookstores. Bound, and all the writing is in ink, with each session dated (and indexed for convenience). I don't expect to have to challenge anyone with a "prior work" argument, but just in case... it never hurts to be thorough.*
Besides, now I'm not messing with loose bits of paper and post-its. Much better.
* From what my chem teachers have told me, barring a sign-off or lab book checkout system, this is the best format I can get for a legal challenge. And if anyone knows about systems to minimize losses in intellectual property cases, it's the pharmaceutical labs.
It's all very impressive -- one of the graph-paper, speckled-cover "Lab Book"s that you find in college bookstores. Bound, and all the writing is in ink, with each session dated (and indexed for convenience). I don't expect to have to challenge anyone with a "prior work" argument, but just in case... it never hurts to be thorough.*
Besides, now I'm not messing with loose bits of paper and post-its. Much better.
* From what my chem teachers have told me, barring a sign-off or lab book checkout system, this is the best format I can get for a legal challenge. And if anyone knows about systems to minimize losses in intellectual property cases, it's the pharmaceutical labs.
