Eh, I'm the inventor on a patent I find worthless, and my former employer is still renewing it. I mean, it wasn't entirely worthless, I did get to have a great

Eh, I'm the inventor on a patent I find worthless, and my former employer is still renewing it. I mean, it wasn't entirely worthless, I did get to have a great conversation about it. PM: Hey toast, we should try this cool technique for X from this company, they do Y. toast: oh, we tried that, I have a patent for it, and it didn't really work. Oh and we couldn't do it at all on one platform and we just got rid of the permission we would need to do it on the other platform. I mean, clearly the other company got it to work better than I did, so maybe it's not entirely worthless, but afaik, they didn't license my patent either (I suspect I would have heard about it, maybe not though; and my employer claims their patent portfolio is for defense only and afaik haven't yet taken any enforcement actions) Mostly I'm just being pedantic, a lot of patents are assigned and the inventor doesn't make a choice about it.