<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">At Bell Labs there was a rumor you got a symbolic dollar when a patent was filed, but it was only a rumor. Nonetheless I mentioned this to PJW who then reached in his wallet and handed me a greenback.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Props.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-rob</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM Rod Bartlett via TUHS <<a href="mailto:tuhs@tuhs.org">tuhs@tuhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">U.S. Robotics had the best bonuses for filing patents of any company I've worked for. I think it was $1000 if they decided to file the patent application and another $1000 when it was granted. I also got an all expenses paid trip to Barcelona in 1999 for having filed 2 patents that year. Other companies were not nearly as generous.<br>
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> On May 15, 2025, at 5:00 PM, Stuff Received <<a href="mailto:stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca" target="_blank">stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 2025-05-14 10:54, Larry McVoy wrote:<br>
>> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:<br>
>>> It's a lot more than that, though. I was at IBM at that time, and at<br>
>>> IBM, right about then the bonus for getting for getting published at a<br>
>>> conference had gotten eliminated. It was very clear that as far as<br>
>>> IBM management was concerned, conference publication didn't matter.<br>
>>> If you filed a patent, you would get paid a cash bonus. If you submit<br>
>>> to any conference --- you wouldn't.<br>
>> That's wild. To the best of my knowledge, Sun didn't give you a bonus<br>
>> for either a paper or a patent, it was just part of the job. I certainly<br>
>> never got a bonus for that stuff. They did pay expenses for conferences<br>
>> but that was it.<br>
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> We may be drifting off topic but my last employer paid $50 per application filed plus $100 per grant. My penultimate employer paid a lousy $1 (minimal required consideration).<br>
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