Are there any new concepts about IPR protection here?
Yes. There is quite a bit of “catching up” to be done throughout education and industry. Even in science and engineering disciplines the laboratory notebook has been regarded as “old fashioned” and not applicable anymore. This is not true. Further probity.org promotes use of the traditional methods of durably recording business processes of which IPR is just a part. Using a laboratory notebook or “day book” is still a valuable discipline and raising awareness will generate better availability of suitable stationery. Digests standing for digital data can be written or printed into such books as the minimum method of protection, but do not forget to keep the original data too! The full scheme probity.org promotes will come in time, but there is nothing to stop the basic notebook digest recording from happening now. Those involved in training future creative and inventive people should make the information available here known to their students.
