Huang v. California Institute of Technology (C.D. Cal. 2004)
Dr. Huang sued, alleging that he should be a named inventor of CIT’s automatic DNA sequencing patents. As evidence, Dr. Huang submitted his own testimony and his laboratory notebooks. The Court found that the lab notebooks were insufficient because they were not witnessed or reliably dated.
Only in those instances where Dr. Huang’s lab notebooks were corroborated by independent evidence were they considered at all persuasive.