Timeline:
Filed and PP’ed by lawyer: filed at the end of April, PP’ed after couple
of weeks
PP clock started on May 20th, PP clock stopped & approval notice on May 30th
Related background that was mentioned in the petition:
Permanent R&D position in big pharma, PhD 2011, computational and systems
biology
Journal papers: 9 (>250 citations from 26 countries)
- 3 1st author and 1 co-1st author
- 3 papers ranked top 1% in all fields by ISI, including one 1st author and
one 2nd author
- Journal IF: one 14, three ~10, four 3~6, one 2
Conferences: 11 (including full-length papers, abstracts, posters, and oral
presentations or invited talks)
Reviews: 3 only with IF 3~5 (tried to contact several journal editors last
year; got most responses but never a real review, so gave up :( )
References: 9
- 4 independent: 3 from academia and 1 from industry
- 2 outside US, 7 inside US
- 2 from industry, 7 from academia including 1 member of NAS
Other letters collected and submitted:
- 3 from journal editors for reviews
- 1 from university to show >3 years of research experience (since industry
experience < 2 years when filing)
My lawyer (hired by the company) was in general reasonable (e.g. agreed with
PP) although she insisted claiming reviews which I strongly disagreed :)
Good luck to everyone!