[RBG7-L] - RE: Off topic - using documents as legal proof

[Claudine Robbins]

Karen,   Just some thoughts… Each workstation’s documents with each page identifying the company, author, date and time could either be printed and put in a safety deposit box or written to a CD with the CD session closed and no longer recordable.  All documents written to a CD-R are read only so you would preserve the company, author, date and time of creation, as long as you could preserve the CD.  Unfortunately, CD’s are more fragile than books. Or maybe scan the documents, both the printed date and the scanned date would testify as to the original creation.   Claudine     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:08 PM To: RBG7-L Mailing List 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 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