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> This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop. From the opening lines of the article: > In 1975, immigrants accounted for one in 12 i
by oarsinsync 8y ago
> This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop.
From the opening lines of the article:
> In 1975, immigrants accounted for one in 12 inventors in America. Today it’s one in 3.5.
It seems unlikely that if this was purely cheap labour, that this would result in more inventors (assuming they're not using some alternate definition of inventor that I'm unaware of)
- hinkley 8y agoI think you should pay more attention to complaints about patent farming. Generating a patent isn't a matter of being exceedingly clever, here. It's being a little clever, having bosses that are obsessed with patent applications, and either not caring about it or not having enough power to say no.
- oarsinsync 8y agoThat's a good point. Having a patent in your name technically qualifies you as an inventor, and as you've correctly noted, patent farms are a thing.
- hinkley 8y agoMost large American corporations with a software development division appear to be patent farmers. Sooner or later the attorneys and the accountants take over.