GE gave me 500 for getting an application approved for filing and another 500 when/if it gets approved. Also a sweet trophy for every year that i filed somethi

GE gave me 500 for getting an application approved for filing and another 500 when/if it gets approved. Also a sweet trophy for every year that i filed something. Getting things approved to be filed was fairly trivial. In fact we would occasionally (about 2 times per year) have meetings in my team where we would spend an entire morning just brainstorming. Then we would take the 'best' ideas and write them up (this included a minimal amount prior art research and about 4 pages of prose and diagrams if you wanted). We would discuss the ideas with patent attorneys who would advise us on whether an idea was worth pursuing. It was a very well supported process.