patent cash reduced to 2000 $/person with 6000 $ cap /patent. No LTIs now..
It's a good move given that most patents (99.99%) are waste of money and only making lawyers and uspto rich!!
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Dell s not the right place to patent anything. The effort is not worth it.
I had 50+ patents and yet laid off last year after being put on technical ladder. I lost most of the rsus. So at the end the patents meant nothing financially. And no one really bothered about patents in my search for my next role. Some even had to say that I should not waste my time in innovation and should be coding only.
Being in the patent committee as well I know how the whole game is played. How some use their position and clout and how some people at some orgs even plagiarise and submit, yet they are approved and lawyers make money. It had become an internal money spinning business and in a way I am glad that some freeloaders will be filtered out.
It's a move to prevent managers and directors from adding their names to patents (which they obviously have not contributed to)
Indeed who is that guy? What a useless person...I bet he could not find a job in any modern company. Probably in some other dinosaur doing the same..
who is the guy that tries to finagle himself into all the patents at EMC?
who is the guy that tries to finagle himself into all the patents at EMC? He gives you a phone call stating he was going to create a patent to do the same thing that you're working on and then states that you should work together to create it. Heard he was notorious for pulling this stunt. Probably a Distinguished Engineer by now.
Indeed a waste of money and space in the resumes of the patent holders. nobody cares about those, they cannot land you on a well paid and stable job