15 May
2025
15 May
'25
10:54 p.m.
At Bell Labs there was a rumor you got a symbolic dollar when a patent was
filed, but it was only a rumor. Nonetheless I mentioned this to PJW who
then reached in his wallet and handed me a greenback.
Props.
-rob
On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM Rod Bartlett via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
U.S. Robotics had the best bonuses for filing patents
of any company I've
worked for. I think it was $1000 if they decided to file the patent
application and another $1000 when it was granted. I also got an all
expenses paid trip to Barcelona in 1999 for having filed 2 patents that
year. Other companies were not nearly as generous.
- Rod
application filed
plus $100 per grant. My penultimate employer paid a
lousy $1 (minimal required consideration).
On May 15, 2025, at 5:00 PM, Stuff Received
<stuff(a)riddermarkfarm.ca>
wrote:
On 2025-05-14 10:54, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> It's a lot more than that, though. I was at IBM at that time, and at
>> IBM, right about then the bonus for getting for getting published at a
>> conference had gotten eliminated. It was very clear that as far as
>> IBM management was concerned, conference publication didn't matter.
>> If you filed a patent, you would get paid a cash bonus. If you submit
>> to any conference --- you wouldn't.
> That's wild. To the best of my knowledge, Sun didn't give you a bonus
> for either a paper or a patent, it was just part of the job. I
certainly
never got
a bonus for that stuff. They did pay expenses for conferences
but that was it.
We may be drifting off topic but my last employer paid $50 per
S.