----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:08 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Off topic - using documents as legal proof
> > A client asked me this question, and I'm wondering if anyone > has run into this. They are in the Patents Department, and can > be called upon in court to "prove" that their people invented > something, etc. In the "olden days", there were notebooks. > Actual books with dated bound pages that their people wrote > in, and they were accepted as evidence. > > But now alot of the people are creating Word documents or > Excel spreadsheets with notes of their "inventions." The Patents > people are concerned that these aren't good enough for legal > defense. I showed them how the File, Properties showed the The File Creation date and any other filesystem properties can be programatically modified. There has to be some case law in existence on this subject and my recommendation is for your client to have their attorney research this and establish a protocol for the internal process and use that. Areas like this is where us mere mortals have no right to tread. > date created and the date modified but they aren't happy with > that because an innocent change could change the date modified > and there's no record of the original document. Also there is > an "author" indication on one of the tabs, but we have yet to figure > out where to set the author. Every document on every workstation > has the name of the company. > > Anyone ever dealt with this? Feel free to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > off the list. > > Karen > >
