Innovation at Dell is not the problem. Dell was 15th on the list for US patent submissions in 2025, ahead of Microsoft, Amazon, HPE. Dell has many brilliant people in the company, unfortunately not many of them are in senior leadership positions.
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I had a patent rejected by Dell. They saw no practical market value.
I said okay and had a paralegal file paperwork and I have a provisional patent. I am talking to a company about licensing or selling it to them. Not a huge amount, but nearly a couple of year’s pay. A big chunk of that will go to the lawyers.
I won’t retire but it’s a huge ego boost.
True. Dell stocks the bathroom stalls with single ply. They wouldn't spend that kind of cash on lawyers unless they felt the patent would payout in some way.
Submitting patents to lawyers to create the disclosure and submit to the us patent office is an expensive process. It involves lawyers. You folks who are saying Dell spams patent submissions are smoking dope. Dell is a cheap a$$ company and wouldn't have lawyers create and submit the patent to the US patent office unless they felt it can make money or give them a competitive advantage in some way.
Quality vs quantity
“ And now you are a Dell troll on the layoff.com like the rest of us. Welcome.”
Ex-Dell. I asked for a package and got out. Life is far less stressful and honestly didn’t realize how unhappy I was until stepping away from it
"I led a patent committee, most of the submissions are cr-p"
And now you are a Dell troll on the layoff.com like the rest of us. Welcome.
And how many of these patents have led to a profitable product hitting the market in tbe last 10 years?
- Dell bought most of those patents when they acquired EMC
- i led a patent committee, most of the submissions are cr-p
I agree. Dell has so very smart people. Dell isn’t innovative as a company though and getting patents doesn’t show innovation, it shows a protection of IP. At the end of the day you can patent, copyright and trademark almost anything.
At the end of the day, Dell isn’t willing to get out of its safe space. It’s run by cowards, who treat people like a$$holes and are megalomaniacs.
Patent submission (or even registration) doesn't necessarily mean innovation. It just means you've developed something new.
Real innovation means cutting-edge technology, while you can patent also something which relies on old fashion tech.
There are even countries relying on that to inflate their innovation score.
I wonder how many of the submissions are actually approved as real patents? Not many I suspect.
Patents show a companies IP capacity and act as potential source of future revenue only if they can get them into products. Don't need to be Einstein to see that link.
"the innovation of a new hinge design on a Laptop"
Are you referring to the ones on tbe gaming laptops that fail after just a few weeks or the "new and improved" ones that last 6-8 months?
"Dell has many brilliant people in the company"
Seems a bit biased and a self-serving opinion there. If you are equating patent submission counts to brilliance you are clearly not part of the latter.
Hey @OP+1jptyz617, how dare you make a post on this forum using actual facts and data to support your point! Don't you know this flies against the baseless narratives that the RTO malcontents want to promote here?
Someone is being invented to file patents, that is there performance metric. Thats far different than revenue generation.
Don’t confuse activity with achievement.
My ACER notebook failed due to a broken hinge. Maybe a better hinge is what the industry needs. Go Dell!
Exactly what has Dell Innovated on? How much can you innovate on putting a component in a metal box?
Build Box, put stuff in Box. That has been the mode for decades.
Oh my, I forgot the innovation of a new hinge design on a Laptop. Oh, my how could I have forgotten such an important Innovation?
patent submissions are like Grammy nominated
means nothing
patent submissions means nothing you dolt.
anyone and their mom can submit a patent. doesnt mean its worthwhile or economically viable
And for all of you Jensen fan boys Nvidia was 77th