Well I've finally made it into campus early today. Despite struggling this week to stretch out my work day by heading into work a couple hours earlier, I find reporting my success to be rather anticlimactic.
Today was a busy day with my trademark eclectic mix of meetings, lab work and bookkeeping. This morning I was able to spend a number of hours working on some firmware programming. Additionally, I sent off a trio of PCB (printed circuit board) designs off to a board shop for fabrication. In the afternoon I attended a meeting of the University Research Committee.
Also, some news I didn't share earlier in the week, my supervisor and I, together with Victoria University, have filed two patent applications. My first ever! Both were filed with the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) which doesn't actually grant patents, but is a logical first step before filing an application with individual patent offices. Over the next 18 months our PCT applications will be examined in the context of current patents and other public records to provide an opinion on the patent-ability of the our devices. This feedback would then be used to refine our applications before we submit them to individual national patent offices. While it might be sometime before we file for actual patents, our PCT filing protects our claims and allows us to start disclosing information about these inventions without jeopardising our IP. Which is fantastic news if you're a PhD student looking to write some journal articles.
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