2010
2007
patent shames
Le système, l'individu et ses (non) choixI couldn't agree more. In my 8 years in IBM Research, I first filed a patent an year or so after I joined I think. They have a whole system in place to reward you with cash and plaques on the wall based on how many patents you file and how many get issued. And the system makes it easy to do it- hired lawyers do most of the work and all the inventor does is fill a form and then edit the draft application done by the lawyers.

