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Citation please? I've never heard of any federal agency employee getting any kind of commission such as this.
by binarymax 8y ago
Citation please? I've never heard of any federal agency employee getting any kind of commission such as this.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoThey get promoted for processing faster. That's equivalent to get paid per patent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/07/31/inside-the-stressed-out-time-crunched-patent-examiner-workforce https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/07/31...
- hedora 8y agoNot the best article to cite to make this point, but: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/07/31/inside-the-stressed-out-time-crunched-patent-examiner-workforce/?noredirect=on https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/07/31... > "Our data finds that as examiners are given less time to review applications, the less prior art they cite, the less likely they are to make time-consuming prior art rejections, and the more likely they are to grant patents," the researchers report. ... > Patent examiners have an incentive to approve or reject a patent as quickly as they can. That's because every time they do, they get two "credits" that go toward a progression system that determines when they get promoted (and how much they make). One interesting feature of the progression system, though, is that as you rise in rank (from, say, a GS-7 to a GS-14) the amount of time you're expected to spend on each patent decreases.