Happens in patents too. At one of my gigs, there was an engineering department that was perpetually being granted patents for their work. The C-level exec tha

Happens in patents too. At one of my gigs, there was an engineering department that was perpetually being granted patents for their work. The C-level exec that the department laddered up to demanded on being on every patent app, despite having nothing to do with the invention itself. My boss insisted that we include other team members on our patent apps, even if they were not involved, as a way of improving morale. (It backfired. No one on the team who eas uninvolved wanted a patent they didnt earn. No one who earned the rigjt to be named on the patent app felt it was right to include non-inventors.)