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MSR does in fact file quite a few patent applications. At least in the past, Microsoft employees got little tchotchkes for each patent application filed, and it
by thinkling 14y ago
MSR does in fact file quite a few patent applications. At least in the past, Microsoft employees got little tchotchkes for each patent application filed, and it's not uncommon for MSR researchers to have small mounds of these patent 'cubes' on their bookshelves.
- tellarin 14y agoTrue, but as percentage of their academic output (papers, talks, prototypes, ...) they're not so high.