自从离开了大学里的老板后,和他的联系一直没有中断。差不多每个周末都去看看他,顺便和他讨论一些研究方向和未来的走向问题,同时,也帮他解决一些学生面临的实验技术问题。
今天中文学校开学,送儿子去上学后,就又遛达到实验室看看。和老板讨论了前三个礼拜的进展,和目前学生正在作的试验,老爸顺手把刚刚送出去的provisional patent application打印出来,交给我:“Sorry, it took much longer than what I thought. You know, we had some new data and waited for the final result. The good news is that, based on your work, we accidently found a new compound which inhibits specifically and strongly on androgen receptor. So the patent covers a class of compounds with similar structure and four nuclear receptors now ....”
第一个专利花了我四年时间,中间有公司感兴趣,也因专利迟迟下不来而失去了耐心,估计现在也成了垃圾。这个专利,还有一年时间来补充,加上专利本身也简单直接,就看能不能中彩了。
(1/20/2008)