Chapter 18

I spent most of the weekend with Jake or gathering my research. I printed out emails, gathered notes, and printed out my online research folder, which thankfully was all dated. I wasn’t looking forward to having to tell the team about this. This must have been what Katrina had caught wind of at the end of last week. We had not been quiet about our research at work, which did open us up to this type of situation. It happened more often than it should in such a professional field. Ideas were either legitimately stolen or were claimed to be stolen. I had learned from all of these experiences that you needed to keep very good track of research and all steps along the way. That is why I had an online research folder. The program automatically dated everything and even kept a log of when I looked at any articles or websites I had entered in to the online folder.

I had asked the team to meet shortly after everyone had arrived. I gathered up the information that I was going to