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By John Trigg, on October 3rd, 2011 The Leahy Smith America Invents Act was signed by President Obama on 16th September 2011, bringing to culmination a succession of proposed revisions to Patent Law in the US. However, some commentators are expecting the new act to be subjected to revision as a consequence of concerns about potential loopholes. As far as laboratory notebooks [...]
By John Trigg, on June 28th, 2011 With the passage of the America Invents Act by the House of Representatives on June 23 and of similar legislation by the Senate in March, the United States is on the verge of implementing the most sweeping patent reform in decades. Follow this link to the article ‘Balancing Disclosure, Protection of Trade Secrets, and Patentability in [...]
By Charlie Sodano, on August 13th, 2010 Media for Learning It wasn’t that long ago when the only books to read were printed on paper. Electronic books have been around for more than 15 years, but only recently have caught on with the public. Try to remember the last time that you read a one of two pages that was hand written. [...]
By John Trigg, on March 30th, 2010 In the relentless pursuit of increased efficiency and better productivity in our laboratories we turn to computers and automation to drive out inefficient human and paper-based processes. So it was with some surprise that amongst my daily news feeds that keep me informed of the latest and greatest breakthroughs in laboratory matters, I came across [...]
By John Trigg, on February 1st, 2010 The SMi Group held their annual ELN conference in London last week, under the title ‘ELN: Laboratory Informatics for the 21st Century’. The programme contained a full range of good quality presentations on all aspects of ELNs and related topics that represented the state of the industry. As with most conferences on this subject, there’s [...]
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