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The Laboratory Notebook Page. Most engineers, scientists, and technicians make a record of their work. A common form of record... 

Read the following handwritten notebook pages with some care and attention to the typeset notes in the margin. A thousand words are worth a picture or so (Figs. 2-4). 

Samples must be carefully labeled as they are taken. Labels must tell where, when, and how they were taken and include reference to the field notebook page where they are described. One other effective method of labeling is to use bar codes for each sample. This facilitates sample handling and decreases misidentification of samples. Bar codes can be generated in the field and attached to samples before shipment. 

I. Each notebook page must be signed, dated, and possibly witnessed. 

Responses entered on the checklist should be consistent. X is recommended for No a checkmark for Yes N/A for not applicable to questions that do not apply. An asterisk and notebook page number should be entered on the checklist to identify where relevant comments or questions are recorded in your notebook. 

Notebook Chemists use a notebook to record information about the synthesis—date, chemist name, notebook page number, and so on. 

Figure 11. Sample laboratory notebook page depicting overwrites and incorrectly and correctly executed cross-throughs (reproduced with permission from Unirqyal Chemical Co., Inc.).

The organization must have a well-documented audit trail to raw data that will facilitate the retrieval of any supporting data that may be required during a regulatory inspection. In case of any off-site inspection, it may be prudent to include a copy of all notebook pages and all raw data. 

Different organizations have different formats for the record of invention (i.e., invention disclosure) but some common threads include a brief description of the invention, key dates including conception and reduction to practice, references to key notebook pages, and a list of proposed inventors and their contact information. This document serves as an important record as well as a helpful aid to get the patent agent or attorney started on drafting the patent application. 

However, it is claimed that the US PTO will now accept electronic notebooks provided the Federal Rules of Evidence are followed to the letter [B-29]. In spite of this many companies, at least for the near future, are continuing to maintain paper-based records, or a hybrid form, where electronic notebook pages are printed, signed and filed, for discovery research in order not to compromise any future patent applications. 

All experimental data must be recorded directly in a laboratory notebook along with any identifying numbers on special apparatus and all necessary calibration data see pp. 7-9 for further details. For reports made in an undergraduate laboratory course, a carbon copy or a photocopy of all pertinent notebook pages should be included as an appendix to the report. The first page of this appendix should have a clear heading with the student s name, the name of any partner, and the dates on which the experimental work was performed. 

Attach graphs, charts, etc., to notebook pages with permanent adhesive. When unfolded, attached documents should be within the confines of the opened notebook. 

To reference the notebook, include the analyst s or researcher s initials, notebook number, and notebook page. ... 

In a synthesis experiment, the point of the exercise is to prepare a clean sample of the product you want. All the operations in the lab (e.g., distillation, recrystallization) are just means to this end. The preparation of 1-bromobutane is a classic synthesis and is the basis of the next series of handwritten notebook pages. 

Each notebook page must be signed and dated. 

Subject Update on progress Dr. B This week, I programmed the computer to automaticaily calculate aH the relevant physical data for my reactions. I ve assembled a template to create a virtual notebook page, complete with structures, tables, references, and a system that automatically y suitable for pubUcat based on output parai I ve wired the laboratd directly to the departn LAN arKi written a c retrieval/trs... 

The El.N consists of laboratory notebook pages in wliich a re.scarch worker can enter data and graphics or import the daia from instruments, data systems, or software like... 

FfGURE lAI-3 Laboratory notebook page showing author, witness, and validator. (Courtesy of FileMaker. Inc.)... 

The basic recording medium in the chemistry laboratory and the counting room has always been the notebook. The numbered notebook pages are dated and signed... 

FIGURE 19-6 An engineer s notebook page might includ concept sketches, notes, and dated signatures. ... 

Without a doubt, somebody reading this book today is going to make an important discovery in the future and will seek a patent. The lab notebook is your legal record of your discovery. Therefore each notebook page should be signed and dated. Anything of potential importance should also be signed and dated by a second person. 

When you begin the actual experiment, keep your notebook nearby so you will be able to record those operations you perform. When you are working in the laboratory, the notebook serves as a place in which to record a rough transcript of your experimental method. Data from actual weighings, volume measurements, and determinations of physical consfants are also noted. This section of your notebook should not be prepared in advance. The purpose is not to write a recipe but rather to record what you did and what you observed. These observations will help you write reports without resorting to memory. They will also help you or other workers repeat the experiment in as nearly as possible the same way. The sample notebook pages found in Figures 2.2 and 2.3 illustrate the type of data and observations that should be written in your notebook. 

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