15 May
2025
15 May
'25
9:33 p.m.
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
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:
We may be drifting off topic but my last employer paid $50 per application filed plus
$100 per grant. My penultimate employer paid a lousy $1 (minimal required consideration).
S.
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.