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Not sure Twitter had a choice here. IBM is the largest recipient of patents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_United_States_patent_recipients http://e
by us0r 13y ago
Not sure Twitter had a choice here. IBM is the largest recipient of patents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_United_States_patent_recipients http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_top_United_States_paten...
- jakub_g 13y agoInteresting list, thanks for the link. Note it's steadily increasing each year, with nearly 18 patents per day in 2012. That's a crazy number for me.
- us0r 13y agoAnd they have been exiting the hardware business.
- bluedevil2k 13y agoAs someone who used to work at IBM and generated 36 patents for them, I can tell you that the incentives at IBM are HEAVILY in favor of patents at the expense of your "real" work. At IBM, you can bust your A## off all year, work 60 hours a week, and get a PBC rating of 1 (top 10%) and get rewarded with a bonus of 5% (if you're lucky). Or, you can slack off and spend the majority of your time ducking assignments, getting a PBC rating of 2 (middle 50%) and get rewarded with a 2% bonus, and using your work time to submit patents, where you get $1000 per patent. Which path would you choose? Is it any wonder they have so many patents submitted by their employees?
- sk5t 13y agoI suppose it depends how many patents you can turn out annually... personally I would rather see my salary double each 14 years rather than in 36.
- bluedevil2k 13y agoI said bonus, not raise. Your salary would never double at IBM unless you were one of the chosen few pegged for superstardom.