[TUHS] ATC'25 is the last ATC?

[Rob Pike]

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.

Props.

-rob


On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM Rod Bartlett via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>  - Rod
>
> > On May 15, 2025, at 5:00 PM, Stuff Received <stuff at riddermarkfarm.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2025-05-14 10:54, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> >>> It's a lot more than that, though.  I was at IBM at that time, and at
> >>> IBM, right about then the bonus for getting for getting published at a
> >>> conference had gotten eliminated.  It was very clear that as far as
> >>> IBM management was concerned, conference publication didn't matter.
> >>> If you filed a patent, you would get paid a cash bonus.  If you submit
> >>> to any conference --- you wouldn't.
> >> That's wild.  To the best of my knowledge, Sun didn't give you a bonus
> >> for either a paper or a patent, it was just part of the job.  I
> certainly
> >> never got a bonus for that stuff.  They did pay expenses for conferences
> >> but that was it.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > S.
> >
>
>
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