I recently spoke with my manager about my promotion, and was told I need to demonstrate more 'value' by filing patents. But honestly, what is the actual worth of these patents and whitepapers? It’s an open secret that people are just gaming the system with trivial filings just to climb the corporate ladder, and with AI in the mix, this flood of useless filings is only going to skyrocket. To make matters worse, it's common practice to just slap a manager's name on a bogus patent to buy favor and leverage it for a promotion. Can anyone name a single patent filed at Fidelity that has actually generated measurable business value? It feels like high-level performative work disguised as innovation. Why is management particularly in Indian corporate tech culture so obsessed with this metric?
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Patent and White Paper Culture
The current patent and "white paper" landscape is a farce. It has nothing to do with genuine innovation and everything to do with corporate vanity and resume padding.
Most of these filings are complete junk,technical jargon engineered specifically to game the system and bypass patent examiners. The only real "innovation" happening is in the art of writing applications that look novel on paper despite lacking any substantive value. It is a massive, expensive circus that produces nothing of merit.
It is time to be honest:
It’s pure marketing: Companies and individuals are using patents and AI-generated white papers as shallow promotional tools to project an image of expertise they don't actually possess.
The system is broken: The patent process was built for mechanical hardware, not software. Applying it to modern tech is like trying to use a horse-and-buggy manual to maintain a jet engine—it doesn't work, and it's obsolete.
The "Defensive" Reality: Major players know the system is a waste of time. Companies like Google often skip the patent process entirely, choosing to publish findings as a defensive move simply to prevent others from clogging the system with garbage patents.
We are wasting millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours on a system designed to protect ideas that aren't even worth protecting. It is time to stop pretending this serves the industry; it only serves the ego of the people writing the applications.
Digital jail ....Ford patent technology.
https://x.com/Notwokenow/status/2048697287543538023?s=20
Doug Field - Good Riddance!
Even though I left ford in July 2022, I still want to post this. I never told anyone this story.
Doug field once told me and my team “We move as a snail and bring no innovation” though consistently our team was top performing team.
Because of constant badgering my manager quit then my supervisor and then my entire team along with me.
We all went to different companies and many are in leadership positions at suppliers and OEMs now.
When my Manager & team was leaving he said “Good Riddance” despite the team had filed 52 patents in past three years.
He constantly undermined “Ford way” and tried to rope us in with a mentality of “Tesla” or “Apple” or “whatever”.
After four years he was shown the door when he achieved nothing but lost $20B in EV “innovation”. Because of him good ford Engineers left or were forced out.
If any Ford management is reading, I want to tell you that you should consider what you lost and earned by bringing someone who never valued you or your business but in the process you let loyal and innovative people go.
I have no regrets leaving the company but I felt bad for many folks who I were left to take orders from someone who did not value them.
Patent your idea
If you came up with a great idea, get in touch with the Intellectual Property department.
Not only could you get a share of any royalties, your name is on the patent - proving you innovated.
Maybe someone at Dell will forget about you - but other employers will see what you can do.
We need cash - I know, let’s sell all the Patents
Well, CEO decides to sell over 12,000 Xerox patents……..water next ???
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251029989279/en/IPValue-Acquires-Major-Patent-Portfolio-from-Xerox
Data - AN vs Japan
There was a smart dude with tons of patent under his belt but was let go and now he is equal to Trim at a healthcare company. While we have a dum--ss AN who doesn’t know sh-t and torch is given by Trim to AN to burn down the house…LOL
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