[TUHS] Re: ATC'25 is the last ATC?

[Rod Bartlett via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>]

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@riddermarkfarm.ca> wrote:
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> 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.
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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).
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