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Generally, between two inventors, the first to invent is the inventor who has the earlier date of conception and who can show reasonable diligence between the conception date and the reduction to practice date.An "inventor's notebook" is a notebook that may contain the inventor's description of his invention, the components involved, Disfunción nunca mas PDF unique methods or techniques, progress notes, problems encountered, observations, diagrams, and sketches with their respective dates of entry. An "inventor's notebook" is valuable for two main reasons. First, it helps a company establish that its inventor was the first to invent, which is often a critical issue in patent litigation or in proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) involving ownership disputes.


For instance, in an interference proceeding where two companies are asserting ownership of a particular invention, the USPTO may rely on the dates entered on the inventors' notebooks to find the earliest conception date and the earliest reduction to practice date. The USPTO may rely on the dates entered on the notebook to determine whether the inventors exercised reasonable diligence. Second, inventor's notebooks are valuable because they help companies determine the proper inventor to list in a patent application. 35 U.S.C. 102 (f) states that an inventor cannot be entitled to a patent if he did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented

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