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This entirely ignores the politics that lead to people listed on a patent that contributed nothing. It happens a lot, if not almost always, on patents filed by employees at a large company.
> "Over the past 10 years Apple has produced 10,975 patents with a team of 5,232 inventors, and Google has produced 12,386 with a team of 8,888," writes Wes Bernegger, data explorer at Periscopic. Those numbers are, frankly, pretty similar in terms of proportion. Ummm, Apple's 2.0977 patents per inventor and Google's 1.3936 patents per inventor are pretty _dissimilar_, I'd think, unless many companies have yet more o…
Does anyone have a source showing the distribution of patents per employee across e.g. the S&P 500, Russell 2000 and NYSE Composite members?
Wonder if part of it has to do with incentive structures for patents? My understanding is that at Google, if you have If Apple has a different structure, this may account for the differences.
How interesting, that the company gives out bonuses for patents. I would not be surprised if Apple doesn't do this, much like how their retail staff don't get paid in commission.
This entirely ignores the politics that lead to people listed on a patent that contributed nothing. It happens a lot, if not almost always, on patents filed by employees at a large company.
Wonder if part of it has to do with incentive structures for patents? My understanding is that at Google, if you have If Apple has a different structure, this may account for the differences.
How interesting, that the company gives out bonuses for patents. I would not be surprised if Apple doesn't do this, much like how their retail staff don't get paid in commission.
I'm not sure I buy the argument that Apple's inventors per patent means they're a more open or egalitarian companY. The hotspots seems to suggest that Apple just has a culture of giving management credit on the patents.
You should be able to, because by 2040 there are lots of things that would be considered genuinely novel advancements to the state of the art today, but which can be described in three sentences.
It's a question about whether top executives can ask someone to invent something for them or not. At Google, no, at Apple, yes.
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How interesting, that the company gives out bonuses for patents. I would not be surprised if Apple doesn't do this, much like how their retail staff don't get paid in commission.
I know at least two more companies that give bonuses for patents: IBM and Motorola (before being bought by Google).