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It's also a biased component. Patent-filing opportunities mostly go to senior or above engineers at larger firms.
by pithic 9y ago
It's also a biased component. Patent-filing opportunities mostly go to senior or above engineers at larger firms.
- Radle 9y agoOr to private people who have money. Guess what most twenty year old don't have?
- DonaldFisk 9y agoI'd be very surprised if more than an handful of cases fall into that category. Do you have any data showing that is significant?
- sndean 9y agoVox had an article on something related to this [0], but you'd have to take an extra step to say this means these the inventors, at 20-years-old, were or weren't obtaining patents because of parent income. [0] https://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8225165/patents-innovation-social-mobility https://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8225165/patents-innovation-soc...
- DonaldFisk 9y agoFiling is done by the applicant, who is generally the employer of the inventor (i.e. the company they work for). Each inventor must have made a significant innovative technical contribution to the invention, and anyone who makes such a contribution has to be an inventor. Managing or employing an inventor doesn't count. The only bias I can think of is that the patent might be filed some time after the invention was made, but in my experience this is at most a few years, usually one or two. Source: I am an inventor on six patents (average age 40).