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Then the company shouldn't mind not getting the patents. After all, they really aren't worth that much right? Everyone's happy, well everyone but this manager.
by chrisbennet 8y ago
Then the company shouldn't mind not getting the patents. After all, they really aren't worth that much right? Everyone's happy, well everyone but this manager.
- stevebmark 8y agoRead. They need the work, not the patent. You know, the thing they're paid to do as an engineer. It doesn't matter if they did it on their own time voluntarily, it obviously belongs to the company. It's the engineer's own fault if they did it on personal time to keep trying to game the system (even after being offered 25k, jesus).
- mk89 8y agoWow. An engineer that brings innovation is now to blame. The work is something that more or less everyone can do, innovation? Not for everyone. How many patents does an engineer release on average? It's evident that the company doesn't give a damn about innovation any longer. It starts with "hey we need great people with great ideas" then it degrades to "we need people". What do companies like this really expect? Einstein? Edison? Sometimes innovation comes in multiple steps. Look at the list of most prolific innovators, they thought about stuff that we would consider useless at least. Still, the patents are there. This company, specifically, doesn't seem to value all ideas. They should simply stop this bogus program. Look at IBM, it's the company with the highest amount of patents in the US (AFAIK). Do they all count? Are they all comparable to the invention of the telephone? How many other inventions were needed before that? This engineer released a lot of patents, and it seems that now, yes after 30 ideas, he had a very valuable one - which means for the company maybe some million dollars. Why so late??? That's how progress works.
- joshuamorton 8y agoClearly not given this engineers contract.